On Linux, $550 Radeon R9 Fury Competes With $200~350 NVIDIA GPUs

Posted by timothy on Thursday July 30, 2015 @02:15AM from the right-gas-for-the-engine dept.

An anonymous reader writes: Earlier this month AMD released the air-cooled Radeon R9 Fury graphics card with Fury X-like performance, but the big caveat is the bold performance is only to be found on Windows. Testing the R9 Fury X on Linux revealed the Catalyst driver delivers devastatingly low performance for this graphics card. With OpenGL Linux games, the R9 Fury performed between the speed of a GeForce GTX 960 and 970, with the GTX 960 retailing for around $200 while the GTX 970 is $350. The only workloads where the AMD R9 Fury performed as expected under Linux was the Unigine Valley tech demo and OpenCL compute tests. There also is not any open-source driver support yet for the AMD R9 Fury.

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Re:LOL by Anonymous Coward · 2015-07-30 02:46 · Score: 0, Flamebait

AMD writes shitty half assed drivers
I thought that was ATI.

you are still sucking their dick
Honestly, grow the fuck up you childish fucking idiot.
Your id is too low for you to not actually be a fucking adult. Start acting like one.