As with Nvidia’s drivers, the open-source driver is fine for just using a graphical desktop with AMD graphics cards, but you’ll want the closed-source driver to get maximum gaming performance. There’s the open-source “Radeon” driver and the closed-source “Catalyst” driver. After a bit of turmoil regarding new GPU drivers for AMD Radeon graphics cards, it looks like Team Red is back on track. AMD’s new graphics driver architectureĬurrently, there are two main AMD graphics drivers on Linux. Want to stay up to date on Linux, BSD, Chrome OS, and the rest of the World Beyond Windows? Bookmark the World Beyond Windows column page or follow our RSS feed. And that was the only game that noticeably improved in performance with the new drivers. Phoronix ran some benchmarks and put it bluntly: “ Metro Last Light Redux and Metro 2033 Redux no longer run like garbage on AMD Linux.” That’s an improvement, but the AMD Catalyst graphics drivers are still behind Nvidia’s. AMD released Catalyst 15.5 Linux in early June.
What looks bad for AMD here is how slow it’s been to maintain these application profiles when compared to Nvidia on Linux and even AMD’s own profiles on Windows. The AMD Catalyst driver has application profiles designed for Source engine games, but AMD’s developers haven’t bothered adding csgo_linux to the application profiles-despite Counter-Strike: Global Offensive having been out for a year at this point.Īpplication profiles are commonly used across operating systems and drivers, so this is normal. This will give you as much as a 40 percent graphics boost. Phoronix recently discovered you can boost the performance of Counter-Strike: Global Offensive on Linux when you’re using an AMD graphics card just by renaming the “csgo_linux” binary to “hl2_linux”.
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