Open Radeon 3D Driver Runs At 60~70% of Proprietary Driver Speed 245
An anonymous reader writes "AMD's Radeon HD 6000 series open-source Gallium3D driver for Linux is now working and running at 60~70% (in some cases, 80%) of the speed of the official proprietary 'Catalyst' driver. This is a big speed improvement in Mesa/Gallium3D compared to the times when the performance was crippling or even just a few years ago when AMD didn't support open-source drivers. When will NVIDIA change ways?"
Re:A Grain of Salt (Score:2, Funny)
Indeed, though Phoronix does frequently do reasonably useful benchmarks of the various 3D drivers, so I'll take this with a slightly smaller amount of salt than say their repeated claims that Steam is going Linux.
Re:Why change? (Score:2, Funny)
Except.. These drivers have been around for years, and don't. So you wait for what, 3 years to get a driver that performs just over half as good.
Hey, here's a bug report..
"The driver seems to limit my hardwares performance to only 60% of what it was..."