AMD

[Fernando Cassia]

On Mon, Aug 19, 2013 at 3:51 PM, Fred Smith
<fredex at fcshome.stoneham.ma.us> wrote:
>
> AMD video chips, OTOH, are not (IMHO) as well supported.

Today with AMD APUs (CPU+GPU in a single chip) the support can only improve
http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=amd_a10_6800k&num=1

..and according to Larabel things look great wrt GPUs too going forward

AMD Radeon GPUs Run Great With Linux 3.11 Kernel, Mesa 9.3-devel
http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=amd_dpm_mix&num=1

..and he founds surprisingly good 3D/OpenGL performance with AMD/ATI
proprietary drivers, even matching the Windows8 ones..

AMD Gallium3D & Catalyst Drivers Compete Against Windows
Published on August 02, 2013
http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=amd_win8_ubuntu13&num=6

"The modern Linux Catalyst driver shares mostly common code with the
Windows Catalyst driver aside from the platform-specific bits and
other obvious differences. Our past testing of the AMD drivers between
Windows and Linux has been mixed with the performance some years being
closer than in other years where the AMD Linux driver has fallen
behind" (...)
" It wasn't a surprise that the open-source Radeon Gallium3D was much
slower than Catalyst, but took us off guard a bit was that the Linux
Catalyst driver does take some noticeable performance hits over the
Microsoft Windows driver in some OpenGL workloads."

FC
Note:Phoronix uses Ubuntu, not Fedora, for the tests quoted above...

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