Open-Source R500 Driver Can Compete With Legacy Catalyst

Posted by tracyanne on Jun 10, 2012 5:53 AM EDT
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The latest open-source Radeon Linux driver code for supporting the Radeon X1000 (R500) series hardware has basically reached a point of competitiveness with the legacy Catalyst Linux driver that once supported this hardware. In some cases the open-source Gallium3D driver is now faster than what Catalyst once ran at while in other select OpenGL workloads there is still a proprietary imbalance.

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