Power Management: ATI Catalyst vs. Open-Source ATI Driver

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At Phoronix we have posted a new article. A link to this from your

site's news section would be greatly appreciated.

 

Title: Power Management: ATI Catalyst vs. Open-Source ATI Driver ( -at -) Phoronix

Direct Link: http://www.phoronix.com/vr.php?view=13566

Summary: "Yesterday we broke the news that AMD will stop supporting the

R300-500 GPUs in the Catalyst driver. There have been well over one

hundred posts in the Phoronix Forums from ATI customers upset with this

decision, but fortunately, there is first-rate open-source support

available. AMD continues to release documentation and code while the

X.Org development community has been hard at work on the xf86-video-ati

and xf86-video-radeonhd drivers along with Mesa and Gallium3D

components. The main problem though is the open-source stack -- at this

time -- providing poor gaming performance, but power management can also

be a problem. In yesterday's article we provided some R500 comparative

2D and OpenGL benchmarks, but in this article are some power management

results comparing the Catalyst 9.2 driver to the xf86-video-ati driver."

 

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