Linux 6.19's Significant ~30% Performance Boost For Old AMD Radeon GPUs [GCN 1.0 "Southern Islands" or GCN 1.1 "Sea Islands"]

https://www.phoronix.com/review/linux-619-amdgpu-radeon

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theunknownmuncher@lemmy.world · 22 pts · 231d

😍 god I love open source ❤️

  • From my R7 240
Damarus@feddit.org · 8 pts · 231d (1 reply)

Always great to hear. I would still like to know how the performance compares to the Windows drivers, just as a reference.

forgetful_fox@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 231d

Considering the card used in the test (Radeon HD 7950) and that the latest drivers for Windows 10 are from 2022... I would expect it to be a good comparison in favor of Linux drivers.

Long_Con@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 4 pts · 230d

Welp. Time to pull my 7970 out of storage. I was planning to pull it apart and put the pieces in a shadowbox on the wall... but if it's 30% faster now I might throw it back in my server and play around!

Huzzah for open source!