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Out of curiosity, what are the comparisons to the closed-source driver under Kernel 3.12? The scant bits of info I can find -- a comparison to the windows catal

Out of curiosity, what are the comparisons to the closed-source driver under Kernel 3.12? The scant bits of info I can find -- a comparison to the windows catalyst driver -- seem to suggest that the open source driver is still a good deal slower ( http://openbenchmarking.org/result/1307253-SO-LEGACYAMD15#system_table http://openbenchmarking.org/result/1307253-SO-LEGACYAMD15#sy... ). Additionally, Steam's been available for Linux for years now, what's the framerate like on games that aren't Quake 3 derivatives?

ZeroGravitas 13y ago
Steam on Linux is 8 months old.
slacka 13y ago
I have a AMD 5970. Default gallium3D are 40-80% of the catalyst drivers in the testing I've done, similar to the numbers phoronix gets.[1] If you're willing to put up with some glitches, you can enable the SB backend and bring it to 80-95%, especially at higher resolutions. I have a steam account and several Humble Bundles. From my experience, the catalyst drivers always perform better and have fewer glitches. Many indie titles are unplayable with gallium drivers. From openbenchmarking, Unigine won't even run under the gallium drivers.[2] What I'd really love to see is AMD commit to merging their Catalyst and gallium drivers/teams. Sure the current 1 or 2 AMD open source guys can get good results running Quake 3 derivatives. But without a full team backing them up, I don't see how they can test hundreds of games for glitches and performance regressions. [1] http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=amd_hd5000_dpm93&num=5 http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=amd_hd500... [2] http://openbenchmarking.org/result/1109040-LI-AMDRADEON19 http://openbenchmarking.org/result/1109040-LI-AMDRADEON19
- Spittie 13y ago
  On your second link, that's a quite old (almost two years, if I'm not wrong) benchmark. Unigine is now supposed to run on the free drivers, see http://www.gearsongallium.com/?p=752 http://www.gearsongallium.com/?p=752
- saurabh 13y ago
  Mesa 9.3 will enable the Shader Backend by default
asdfs 13y ago
The end of the article states that he plans on doing a Catalyst vs. Mesa comparison this weekend. Hopefully with a larger selection of cards as well.
dman 13y ago
Steam available on linux for years? Can you provide a source for that?
- ensmotko 13y ago
  Steam for Linux (beta) was released for all users on December 20 2012 [1]. [1] http://store.steampowered.com/news/9638/ http://store.steampowered.com/news/9638/
  - dman 13y ago
    So one full year isnt over yet?

ZeroGravitas 13y ago

Steam on Linux is 8 months old.

slacka 13y ago

I have a AMD 5970. Default gallium3D are 40-80% of the catalyst drivers in the testing I've done, similar to the numbers phoronix gets.[1] If you're willing to put up with some glitches, you can enable the SB backend and bring it to 80-95%, especially at higher resolutions. I have a steam account and several Humble Bundles. From my experience, the catalyst drivers always perform better and have fewer glitches. Many indie titles are unplayable with gallium drivers. From openbenchmarking, Unigine won't even run under the gallium drivers.[2] What I'd really love to see is AMD commit to merging their Catalyst and gallium drivers/teams. Sure the current 1 or 2 AMD open source guys can get good results running Quake 3 derivatives. But without a full team backing them up, I don't see how they can test hundreds of games for glitches and performance regressions. [1] http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=amd_hd5000_dpm93&num=5 http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=amd_hd500... [2] http://openbenchmarking.org/result/1109040-LI-AMDRADEON19 http://openbenchmarking.org/result/1109040-LI-AMDRADEON19

Spittie 13y ago
On your second link, that's a quite old (almost two years, if I'm not wrong) benchmark. Unigine is now supposed to run on the free drivers, see http://www.gearsongallium.com/?p=752 http://www.gearsongallium.com/?p=752
saurabh 13y ago
Mesa 9.3 will enable the Shader Backend by default

asdfs 13y ago

The end of the article states that he plans on doing a Catalyst vs. Mesa comparison this weekend. Hopefully with a larger selection of cards as well.

dman 13y ago

Steam available on linux for years? Can you provide a source for that?

ensmotko 13y ago
Steam for Linux (beta) was released for all users on December 20 2012 [1]. [1] http://store.steampowered.com/news/9638/ http://store.steampowered.com/news/9638/
- dman 13y ago
  So one full year isnt over yet?