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Radeon Gallium3D Can Beat AMDs Catalyst In Select Workloads
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 For seeing how far the open-source ATI/AMD Linux graphics driver has advanced, in this article are benchmarks from a vintage Radeon X1800XT (R520) graphics card when it`s tested on a Catalyst Linux graphics driver from five years ago. The Ubuntu Linux releases every year going back to 2010 were then tested for reference to see how the open-source graphics driver matured just in the past three years. Here are the results in this article from the extensive round of testing."
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2013 AMD Video Card Driver Performance Review
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We continuing our look at driver performance improvements over time by evaluating AMD's 2012 driver performances on both the AMD Radeon HD 7970 and HD 7950 video cards. We will see how drivers from the beginning of the year to the end of year have impacted real world gameplay performance.
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Low-End NVIDIA/AMD GPU Comparison On Open-Source Drivers
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For those looking to purchase a low or mid-range graphics card for use with the open-source graphics drivers -- rather than being bound by NVIDIA`s proprietary driver or AMD`s Catalyst -- here`s a comparison of nine different discrete graphics cards when benchmarked by the open-source drivers."
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AMD Radeon Gallium3D Starting To Out-Run Catalyst In Some Cases
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In this article are benchmarks of the past two Ubuntu Long-Term Support releases (Ubuntu 12.04.1 LTS and Ubuntu 10.04.4 LTS) compared to the latest Ubuntu 13.04 development state. Being looked at specifically for this round of testing is the AMD Radeon Linux graphics performance with the latest open-source driver compared to an older Catalyst driver. For an AMD Radeon HD 4800 series graphics card, the current state of the open-source graphics driver on Linux is beginning to outperform an old AMD Catalyst driver from 2010 for select Linux OpenGL games."
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AMD Has Open-Source Driver For HD 8000 Series
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While AMD has yet to officially introduce their Radeon HD 8000 series, published today was the initial open-source Linux graphics driver support for handling the Radeon HD 8800 Oland graphics cards."
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News: A driver update to reduce Radeon frame times
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We spotted an issue with high frame latencies in several of the latest games on the Radeon HD 7950 not long ago, and now AMD has delivered a driver intended to remedy some of the problems. Does it do the trick? We take a look."
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News: Driver software blamed for Radeon frame latency troubles; to be fixed with updates
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We recently found that the GeForce GTX 660 Ti generally outperforms the Radeon HD 7950 in our latency-focused tests in many of the latest games, despite the fact that the Radeon is based on decidedly beefier hardware. We concluded that AMD has work to do in optimizing its drivers for the latest games. Now comes confirmation from AMD that software is to blame for some of the latency issues, along with word of planned fixes, including a rewrite of the GCN memory management software. "
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Nouveau Driver Remains Much Slower Than NVIDIAs Official Driver
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While benchmarks this week have shown the Nouveau driver can be faster with the Linux 3.8 kernel, further benchmarks have shown that this reverse-engineered open-source driver for supporting the spectrum of NVIDIA GPUs is still at a significant loss compared to NVIDIA`s official but proprietary Linux graphics driver."
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Nouveau NVIDIA Driver Can Be Faster With Linux 3.8
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Published already on Phoronix have been benchmarks of the in-development Linux 3.8 kernel when it comes to measuring the DRM graphics driver performance improvements for AMD Radeon hardware. In this article is a look at the Nouveau driver performance, the reverse-engineered open-source NVIDIA graphics driver. There`s a fair amount of changes to look forward to in the next Linux kernel release for Nouveau and it`s yielding some performance improvements."
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AMD 2012 Catalyst Driver Year-In-Review
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For the past seven years I have been writing annual year-in-review articles for the AMD and NVIDIA Linux graphics drivers. Much progress has been made in recent years for bettering the OpenGL Linux support from these leading closed-source graphics drivers and this year is no exception. Up today is a recap of this year`s AMD Catalyst graphics driver releases plus benchmarks of this year`s driver releases going back to Catalyst 11.12."
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NVIDIA Publishes Open-Source 2D Driver Code
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NVIDIA has published initial patches for providing open-source 2D hardware acceleration support on their NVIDIA Tegra 2 and Tegra 3 SoCs. This work is based upon the experimental open-source Direct Rendering Manager driver to be merged into the Linux 3.8 kernel."
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AMD Catalyst 12.11 Beta 8 - HD 7970 Gaming Performance @ ocaholic
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Once more AMD has released a new driver update. This time they say they have taken care of the issue we discovered, which is related to power consumption under idle conditions. Of course we have been checking if they succeeded in getting rid of these problems and we were also checking if there are any performance differences or maybe even glitches or big improvements."
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