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AMD Kaveri: Gallium3D vs. Catalyst Drivers
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 Now having looked at the Windows 8.1 vs. Ubuntu Linux performance, carried out an initial GPU comparison, and compared several Intel/AMD processors, our latest performance investigation with AMD`s A10-7850K Kaveri APU is looking at the Radeon R7 Graphics performance on Ubuntu Linux when using the open-source RadeonSI Gallium3D driver and then using the closed-source AMD Catalyst driver."
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RadeonSI Gallium3D Is Improving But Still Long Shot From Catalyst
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While NVIDIA`s binary driver is much faster and better than AMD`s Catalyst, on the open-source driver side is where AMD has been shining. While their RadeonSI Gallium3D driver for Radeon HD 7000 series GPUs and newer is not nearly as well off as their pre-HD 7000 series (R600g) Gallium3D driver, they are making progress. In this article are benchmarks showing the out of the box performance on Ubuntu 13.10 with the modern open-source driver, benchmarks with the latest kernel and Mesa and LLVM, and then the AMD Catalyst driver. A range of modern Radeon HD 7000 and R9 graphics processors were used for this open-source versus closed-source driver testing."
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AMD Catalyst 13.12 WHQL tested @ ocaholic
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Once more AMD has updated their Catalyst drivers and like always performance should be higher with the latest set. We`ve had a closer look at this driver version and ran a set of benchmarks and games on no less than 10 different AMD graphics cards, where there are models from the R9, HD 7000 and HD 6000 Series. Last but not least there are some rather surprising findings."
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NVIDIA G-SYNC Display Technology Explored
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Back in September at a press event held in Montreal, NVIDIA CEO Jen-Hsun Huang announced what he called "one of the most important works NVIDIA has done for computer graphics." The technology was called G-SYNC. G-SYNC is an end-to-end graphics and display architecture that starts with a Kepler-based GPU and ends with a G-SYNC module within a monitor.
To put it simply, what G-SYNC does is keep a display and the output from a Kepler-basd GPU in sync, regardless of frame rates or whether or not V-Sync is enabled.
Did we mention that G-SYNC is also compatible with 4K resolutions? It is, and we hope some manufacturers will make a 30-inch+ 4K display with this new NVIDIA technology on board. If they do, you can take our money right now.
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nvidia Shield @ LanOC Reviews
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This past year at CES Nvidia introduced a new mobile product called the Shield. At the time, even after having a little time to play with it on the show floor, you could say I wasn’t exactly excited about it. The idea of gaming on a tablet was starting to win me over but I just couldn’t imagine trying to carry around something so bulky. This past spring and summer I spent even more time gaming on my tablets, especially the Nexus 7. Emulators and an ever growing collection of games started to win me over. Add in Nvidia’s changes to their drivers and the possibility of being able to stream PC gaming to the Shield and by the time it launched I had been converted into a full on fan of the device. Now nearly a year after its introduction I can finally sit down and talk about my experience with the Shield. Did it live up to my expectations? Read on time find out.
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AMD Catalyst 2013 Linux Graphics Driver Year-In-Review
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After earlier this month delivering the 2013 NVIDIA Linux Year-In-Review, an annual article I`ve been writing for both AMD and NVIDIA since 2005 to cover the Linux driver and support improvements made each passing year, it`s now time to take a look at the Catalyst Linux driver releases from 2013. While NVIDIA added many new features to their Linux driver, enhanced many existing features, and continued delivering first-rate Linux GPU support at launch-time, it`s not been the same for AMD`s Linux team."
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Futuremark 3DMark v1.2.250 Released
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The new 3DMark includes everything you need to benchmark your hardware. With three all new tests you can bench everything from smartphones and tablets, to notebooks and home PCs, to the latest high-end, multi-GPU gaming desktops. And it`s not just for Windows. With 3DMark you can compare your scores with Android, iOS, Windows RT devices too. It`s the most powerful and flexible benchmark Futuremark ever created. * Added Ice Storm Unlimited test enabling you to compare scores against latest Android and iOS devices. * 3DMark now uses the GPU-Z library for improved GPU hardware detection. * Hardware monitoring performance graphs show clock speeds and temperatures for CPU and GPU once again. Download"
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Open-Source NVIDIA Driver Works On Some GeForce 700 GPUs Fails On Others
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With being in the process of checking out several new NVIDIA GeForce 700 GPUs on Linux, now that I have out of the way the GeForce GTX 760 / 770 / 780 Ti / TITAN Linux benchmarks and Windows vs. Linux NVIDIA benchmarks, I decided to see how these four Kepler graphics cards are working with Nouveau, the open-source NVIDIA graphics driver that`s written through clean-room reverse-engineering. Up until recently Nouveau has just been an open-source community project, except now NVIDIA is beginning to support Nouveau and open-source, so let`s see how it runs on this latest high-end graphics hardware."
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AMD APU On Linux: Gallium3D Can Be 80%+ As Fast As Catalyst
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After running earlier this week a 21-way graphics card comparison with Intel, AMD, and NVIDIA GPUs, there were requests by some Phoronix readers to see some new APU performance numbers. For ending out November, here`s new Catalyst vs. Gallium3D driver benchmarks on Ubuntu Linux for the AMD A10-6800K with its Radeon HD 8670D graphics. The results with the latest Linux kernel and Mesa are very positive towards the open-source AMD driver where in some tests the performance can nearly match Catalyst! For at least one Source Engine game, the open-source driver can now even run significantly faster than the binary driver."
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13-Way AMD GPU Open-Source Linux Driver Comparison
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For your viewing pleasure today is a 13-way AMD Radeon
graphics card comparison when testing out the open-source Radeon
Gallium3D drivers on the wide spectrum of ATI/AMD GPUs while looking at
the performance for Valve's Source Engine with Counter-Strike: Source
and Team Fortress 2. Given the imminent arrival of Steam Machines and
SteamOS to push Linux gaming into its long-awaited spotlight, is AMD's
open-source Linux graphics driver capable of delivering a reasonable
level of performance?"
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13-Way AMD GPU Open-Source Linux Driver Comparison On The Source Engine
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For your viewing pleasure today is a 13-way AMD Radeon graphics card comparison when testing out the open-source Radeon Gallium3D drivers on the wide spectrum of ATI/AMD GPUs while looking at the performance for Valve`s Source Engine with Counter-Strike: Source and Team Fortress 2. Given the imminent arrival of Steam Machines and SteamOS to push Linux gaming into its long-awaited spotlight, is AMD`s open-source Linux graphics driver capable of delivering a reasonable level of performance?"
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13-Way AMD GPU Open-Source Linux Driver Comparison On The Source Engine
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For your viewing pleasure today is a 13-way AMD Radeon graphics card comparison when testing out the open-source Radeon Gallium3D drivers on the wide spectrum of ATI/AMD GPUs while looking at the performance for Valve`s Source Engine with Counter-Strike: Source and Team Fortress 2. Given the imminent arrival of Steam Machines and SteamOS to push Linux gaming into its long-awaited spotlight, is AMD`s open-source Linux graphics driver capable of delivering a reasonable level of performance?"
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AMD Lands Open-Source Hawaii GPU Driver Code
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The Linux 3.13 kernel that is just entering mainline development stages already has Radeon DPM and HDMI audio by default. However, now there`s another Radeon DRM-Next pull and it provides support for the brand new AMD R9 290 Hawaii GPUs!"
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AMDs Radeon Gallium3D Starts Posing A Threat To Catalyst
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With recent milestones like the Radeon performance improvements in Linux 3.12 that come as a side-effect from a CPUfreq change, Radeon DPM, and the improvements found by the upcoming Mesa 10.0 release, and numerous other open-source driver improvements, the AMD`s Radeon Gallium3D performance is very competitive to AMD`s Catalyst driver. This close level of performance is for the R600 Gallium3D driver with GPUs like the Radeon HD 5000/6000 series graphics cards. Here`s some benchmarks showing how the open-source AMD Radeon performance compares today to the closed-source Catalyst driver on Windows and Ubuntu Linux. In some of today`s new data, the open-source driver was running 80%+ the speed of AMD`s Catalyst driver."
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