For those of you using the RadeonSI driver for AMD graphics cards, you may be interested to know that a developer named Marek has sent in patches to significantly improve performance for Bioshock Infinite.
From the mailing list entry:
That's seriously impressive and hopefully it translates to gains in other games as well!
I don't own an AMD card to test with at the moment, so if you want to see me test such things in future you can support me Patreon. Article taken from GamingOnLinux.com.
From the mailing list entry:
QuoteHi,
Most interested people already know what this is, so I'm just gonna share the performance numbers here.
This series makes Bioshock Infinite 23% faster. Along with the CPU overhead optimizations that are in the master branch already, the combined improvement is more than 40%.
The first 2 patches are unrelated, but since they don't hurt anything, I included them.
Please review.
Marek
That's seriously impressive and hopefully it translates to gains in other games as well!
I don't own an AMD card to test with at the moment, so if you want to see me test such things in future you can support me Patreon. Article taken from GamingOnLinux.com.
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ElectricPrism Aug 2, 2016
These benefits seem like they'll hit Archlinux users first.
I know our kernels are fresh out of the oven and installing "mesa-git"/radeonsi is a yaourt away.
This is great news :)
I know our kernels are fresh out of the oven and installing "mesa-git"/radeonsi is a yaourt away.
This is great news :)
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Waiting to buy RX 480. But I won't be able to test Bioshock Infinite (thanks to 2K who refuse to release it DRM-free). Looking forward to testing other games.
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TheRiddick Aug 3, 2016
1 game optimized, now all the rest AMD! :)
My 1070 AMP just turned up, so I will be doing a final run of benchmarks with my 390X then removing it from the PC.
I may revisit AMD videocards sometime down the line as they are getting better, but for 4k linux gaming you would need a ULTRA fast AMD card to make up for the SIGNIFICANT performance hit you get in allot of games.
For example just go play warthunder on radeonsi, you will not be impressed.
My 1070 AMP just turned up, so I will be doing a final run of benchmarks with my 390X then removing it from the PC.
I may revisit AMD videocards sometime down the line as they are getting better, but for 4k linux gaming you would need a ULTRA fast AMD card to make up for the SIGNIFICANT performance hit you get in allot of games.
For example just go play warthunder on radeonsi, you will not be impressed.
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