In addition, it allows for the following monitor arrangements: Laptop Mode, Clone Mode, Big Desktop, and Dual Head. It provides support for TV output on AMD graphics cards that support TV-out functionality. This article is just one of many Linux 4.4 benchmarks in the works at -PRO Driver (formerly ATI Radeon Linux Display Drivers and AMD Catalyst) is a free project that tries to distribute proprietary drivers for all ATI and AMD Radeon graphics cards on Linux-based operating systems. The AMDGPU PowerPlay patches won't be merged until Linux 4.5įor all of this testing from the Core i7 5960X Haswell-E system atop Ubuntu 15.10 x86_64 I was running the Linux 4.4 Git kernel as of last week along with the Padoka PPA to provide Mesa 11.1-devel + LLVM 3.8 SVN + the latest DDX drivers.Īll of these OpenGL benchmarks were facilitated using the automated open-source Phoronix Test Suite benchmarking software. As this is a Linux 4.4 kernel being tested, the R9 285 Tonga and R9 Fury graphics cards on the AMDGPU DRM driver weren't tested since they lack re-clocking support on this kernel. On the Radeon side for this initial Linux 4.4 comparison was the Radeon HD 6570, HD 6870, HD 6950, R9 290, and R7 370. No GTX 900 Maxwell graphics cards could be tested since Linux 4.4 still goes without Nouveau hardware acceleration for these cards. The cards tested on the Nouveau side included the GeForce GTX 650, GTX 680, GTX 760, and GTX 780 Ti. In cases where the 0f performance state still wasn't working well, I followed the advice of the developers and went back to then hit the other lower performance states first prior to switching back over to 0f, but that still didn't do the trick in all cases. As noted in the comments to the earlier article, re-clocking isn't yet perfected for this unofficial NVIDIA driver.

Re-clocking was attempted on each of the graphics cards. With Nouveau Kepler re-clocking beginning to work better on the in-development Linux 4.4 kernel, here are some fresh benchmarks comparing the open-source NVIDIA driver on the Git kernel compared to some AMD Radeon graphics cards on its open-source driver.įor this comparison, only NVIDIA Kepler (GeForce GTX 600/700 series) hardware was tested given the re-clocking progress.

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