AMD's R9 Fury On Open-Source: Prepare for Disappointment, For Now

An anonymous reader writes: With Linux 4.3 AMD is adding the initial open-source driver for the R9 Fury graphics cards. Unfortunate for Linux gamers, the R9 Fury isn't yet in good shape on the open-source driver and it's not good with the Catalyst Linux driver either as previously discussed. With the initial code going into Linux 4.3, the $550 R9 Fury runs slower than graphics cards like the lower-cost and older R7 370 and HD 7950 GPUs, since AMD's open-source developers haven't yet found the time to implement power management / re-clocking support. The R9 Fury also only advertises OpenGL 3.0 support while the hardware is GL4.5-capable and the other open-source AMD GCN driver ships OpenGL 4.1. It doesn't look like AMD has any near-term R9 Fury Linux fix for either driver, but at least their older hardware is performing well with the open-source code.

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Re:The whole posting is disengenuous.

[Anonymous Coward]

AMD should design a GPU that writes its own Linux drivers. Anything less than this is incompetence.

so?

[electrosoccertux]

I just use glxgears to benchmark. glxgears is a great benchmark. I recommend glxgears if you want to benchmark your liinicks. thanks.