Radeon's Open-Source Linux GPU Driver Has Nearly Caught Up With Windows' Driver

Written by Michael Larabel in Display Drivers on 7 June 2017 at 10:29 AM EDT. Page 3 of 4. 104 Comments.
Windows 10 vs. Linux 4.12 / Mesa 17.2-dev RadeonSI

Unigine Valley is seeing comparable performance on Windows and Linux. This is great as never in the past with the open-source Radeon driver have we seen the same performance or better to Windows even with GL test-cases.

Windows 10 vs. Linux 4.12 / Mesa 17.2-dev RadeonSI

Xonotic was faster on Linux for the R9 Fury while was coming up a few frames short on the RX 580.

Windows 10 vs. Linux 4.12 / Mesa 17.2-dev RadeonSI

Furmark was similar with seeing roughly the same performance on the RX 580 and better performance in favor of Linux with the R9 Fury.


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