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Open Source AMD Driver Now Supports OpenGL 3.3 — and It's Getting Faster

Posted by timothy on from the is-it-good-enough-for-you dept.

An anonymous reader writes "With the latest open source Linux code published today the AMD RadeonSI Gallium3D driver supports OpenGL 3.3 and GLSL 1.50; this is the open source Linux graphics driver used for Radeon HD 7000 series and newer, including the new Hawaii GPUs. The OpenGL 3.3 support appeared in patches spread across Mesa and LLVM that should appear in their next releases. It was also found that the RadeonSI driver is becoming a lot faster and starting to compete with Catalyst, AMD's notorious Linux binary driver."

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  1. Re:Non-free Nvidia driver already at 4.4 by leathered · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    The real embarrassment is that Windows is already up to 8.1, while the Linux kernel is only at 3.1

    If my math is correct that's a whole 5 metric torvalds* better.

    Get your shit together Linux!

    *I think MS still use imperial ballmers, but I'm not sure.

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  2. Call me jaded, but.... by adolf · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    I'm amused that this is still even an issue.

    AFAICT, the state of the art of open Linux video drivers hasn't actually advanced, in the relative scheme of things in at least fifteen years: Things still just barely work, doing somewhat new things, at best.

    (Oh, sure: The desktop can be stable...sometimes. But I had a stable...sometimes desktop in 1999, too.)

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