Linux 4.12 + Mesa 17.2-dev Yields Noticeable Advantages For Radeon Gamers On Ubuntu 17.04

Written by Michael Larabel in Display Drivers on 17 May 2017 at 09:29 AM EDT. Page 4 of 5. 26 Comments.
Linux 4.12 + Mesa 17.2-dev On Ubuntu 17.04

Portal was tested for being a light game that should benefit from the recently-landed RadeonSI threaded pipe_context work. Sure enough with the newer 4.11+ kernels and Mesa 17.2-dev, Portal is 26% faster.

Linux 4.12 + Mesa 17.2-dev On Ubuntu 17.04

Tesseract also sees noticeable gains on this Radeon R9 Fury + AMD Ryzen 7 1800X system with the newer kernel and code.

Linux 4.12 + Mesa 17.2-dev On Ubuntu 17.04

Team Fortress 2 only saw small gains in performance with these updates.

Linux 4.12 + Mesa 17.2-dev On Ubuntu 17.04

The Tomb Raider performance was also about flatlined.


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