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

Unigine Superposition was another test to regress when using Mesa 17.2-dev on pre-4.11 kernel, but is in good shape with 4.11+.

Xonotic sees some performance gains when making use of Mesa 17.2-dev.

The Deus Ex: Mankind Divided performance improves under Mesa Git, but still could use more optimizations to yield a better experience on the Radeon Linux driver stack.

DiRT Rally only saw minimal changes in performance with the newer Linux kernel releases.

If you are comfortable spinning your own kernel and Mesa from source or using a third-party PPA, as you can see, even with the month-old Ubuntu 17.04 there are very noticeable performance gains to be found if you are using a newer Radeon GCN graphics card with RadeonSI/RADV.

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