AMD Radeon R9 290 OpenGL On Ubuntu 15.04: Catalyst vs. RadeonSI Gallium3D

Lastly, with the synthetic GpuTest OpenGL workloads, Catalyst continued to dominate but these results are still more positive than many of the past R9 290 tests on the open-source driver.

The AMD Radeon R9 290 graphics card is becoming very well capable and performant on the open-source RadeonSI Gallium3D driver and over time the performance gap will continue to close. It will be particularly interesting once OpenGL 4.x is working on RadeonSI to see how the performance compares for more interesting tests like Metro 2033/Last-Light Redux. It will also be interesting to see the compute performance differences once the open-source OpenCL/HSA stack has matured.