AMD R600/700 2D Performance: Open vs. Closed Drivers
While the ATI Radeon HD 5800 graphics cards were introduced last week, the open-source support for the Radeon HD 2000/3000/4000 series is finally maturing. The Linux 2.6.32 kernel will feature kernel mode-setting support for these ATI R600/700 graphics processors as well as the DRM support for allowing 3D acceleration. The classic Mesa support for the Radeon HD 2000 through Radeon HD 4000 series is maturing and is now able to run basic OpenGL games and applications, while the Gallium3D support is still a ways out. However, now that there is finally the Catalyst 9.10 driver within Ubuntu Karmic Koala that supports the latest kernel, we are finally able to directly compare the performance of AMD's Catalyst driver and that of the latest open-source code. In this article we have benchmarks showing the 2D performance between these two driver options with both an R600 and R700 graphics card.
For this round of Linux 2D benchmarks we tested an ATI Radeon HD 3850 (RV670PRO) and then the ATI Radeon HD 4650 (RV730). We tested both of these graphics cards on a system running an Ubuntu 9.10 (x86_64) daily LiveCD snapshot with the Linux 2.6.31-10-generic kernel.
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