Ubuntu 20.04 LTS vs. Linux 5.9 + Mesa 20.3-devel Radeon Graphics Performance
Total War: WARHAMMER II on Linux via the Feral Interactive port was seeing higher performance on the latest kernel and Mesa packages.
With Unigine and X-Plane, the performance was flat.
The OpenGL performance with Basemark saw some nice gains on Navi but regressed for Vega.
Even with the age of Vega and Navi as well being a year old, the open-source AMD Radeon driver for Linux does continue the never-ending process of optimizing the performance. The gains in some gains were minimal to flat but in particular some of the newer Vulkan-powered games there were healthy improvements to find in some areas. In part this uplift is thanks to Mesa's RADV driver switching to the ACO back-end by default since Mesa 20.2. No stability problems or other issues were encountered with these Vega and Navi graphics cards during this run with Linux 5.9 and Mesa 20.3-devel.
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