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Open Radeon 3D Driver Runs At 60~70% of Proprietary Driver Speed

Posted by timothy on from the makes-me-think-about-another-desktop-box dept.

An anonymous reader writes "AMD's Radeon HD 6000 series open-source Gallium3D driver for Linux is now working and running at 60~70% (in some cases, 80%) of the speed of the official proprietary 'Catalyst' driver. This is a big speed improvement in Mesa/Gallium3D compared to the times when the performance was crippling or even just a few years ago when AMD didn't support open-source drivers. When will NVIDIA change ways?"

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  1. Re:A Grain of Salt by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    Indeed, though Phoronix does frequently do reasonably useful benchmarks of the various 3D drivers, so I'll take this with a slightly smaller amount of salt than say their repeated claims that Steam is going Linux.

  2. Re:Why change? by Thomas+Charron · · Score: 1, Funny

    Except.. These drivers have been around for years, and don't. So you wait for what, 3 years to get a driver that performs just over half as good.

    Hey, here's a bug report..

    "The driver seems to limit my hardwares performance to only 60% of what it was..."

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