vissha Posted August 29, 2016 Share Posted August 29, 2016 Windows 10 vs. Linux Radeon Software Performance, Including AMDGPU-PRO & RadeonSI As alluded to earlier and on Twitter, the past few days I have been working on a fresh Windows 10 vs. Ubuntu Linux graphics/gaming performance comparison. This time it's looking at the latest Radeon performance using an R9 Fury and RX 480. Tests on Windows were obviously done with Radeon Software Crimson Edition while under Linux were the two latest AMD/RTG Linux driver options: the hybrid AMDGPU-PRO driver and the fully open-source driver via Linux 4.8 and Mesa 12.1-dev. Given all the progress of particularly the open-source AMD Linux graphics driver stack this summer and the recent RX 480 Polaris launch, I figured it was a good time to do a fresh comparison of Windows 10 vs. Ubuntu Linux on the red side. Windows 10 Pro x64 had all available updates and was running Radeon Software Crimson Edition 16.8.2. On the Linux side was Ubuntu 16.04.1 LTS x86_64 with all available updates. Tested first on the Linux side was AMDGPU-PRO 16.30.3-315407 followed by the open-source driver. For the open-source driver tests was the Linux 4.8 Git kernel along with Mesa 12.1-dev. The Mesa 12.1 Git packages were obtained from the Padoka PPA that are also built against LLVM SVN for the latest AMDGPU compiler back-end. The same Intel Xeon E3-1280 v5 Skylake system was used for both the Windows and Linux benchmarking. With the current AMD open-source driver OpenGL 4.3 was exposed while via AMDGPU-PRO and Radeon Software on Windows there is OpenGL 4.5. It hopefully won't be too much longer until the RadeonSI Gallium3D driver is caught up to OpenGL 4.5. Tested for this article were a wide variety of cross-platform games such as Counter-Strike: Global Offensive, Metro Last Light Redux, GRID Autosport, and Tomb Raider. Also tested were Dota 2 and The Talos Principle; with both those games offering OpenGL and Vulkan renderers they were each tested on Windows and Linux to make for a nice comparison. See our premium comparison with Direct3D 11 if you want to see how D3D11 is competing with Vulkan and OGL. Read More: Page 2 - GRID Autosport + Tomb Raider Page 3 - Talos Vulkan + OpenGL Page 4 - Counter-Strike: Global Offensive + Metro Redux Page 5 - Dota 2 OpenGL + Vulkan Page 6 - Unigine Heaven + Valley Conclusion Source: Page 1 - Introduction Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zigzag Posted August 30, 2016 Share Posted August 30, 2016 Test result: Windows the best choice for gamers. Vulkan better than OpenGL. Linux is not for gamers. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pc71520 Posted August 30, 2016 Share Posted August 30, 2016 2 hours ago, zigzag said: Windows the best choice for gamers. 2 hours ago, zigzag said: Linux is not for gamers. I feel the same. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
steven36 Posted August 30, 2016 Share Posted August 30, 2016 6 hours ago, zigzag said: Test result: Windows the best choice for gamers. Vulkan better than OpenGL. Linux is not for gamers. I could care less about games on PC in the console world Sony beats out Microsoft , One thing that dont help Linux much is many game developers only make them for Windows . A lot times the developers will promise them a game and not make good on there promises . Another thing that hurts Linux is piracy no one cracks much games for Linux so for the poor Windows would always be the better choice .But since ive not cared about games much since the days of pacman this is not issues to me . The issues with Linux on one of my computers the one with AMD on Ubuntu have very poor support for display drivers . Linux distros needs to worry about fixing what is broke and then they can worry about making it better for games. Why should i waste a lot of time with Linux when i can just install windows and have better software and better drivers and just works. I dont use a OS based on conspiracy theories by a bunch of paranoid Windows haters and nether does anyone else that's why its took Linux 25 years to just get over 2% marketshare . I use a OS based on what they can offer me. Linux dont seem to be interrelating many people now days if you look at distrowatch for the last 6mths the top 24 distros are the same or down there's not been surge in downloads in 6 mths at distrowatch witch i can believe because that's about the time i stopped using it much I still have one machine i dual boot it with though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pc71520 Posted August 31, 2016 Share Posted August 31, 2016 22 hours ago, steven36 said: Why should i waste a lot of time with Linux when i can just install windows and have better software and better drivers and just works. I don't use a OS based on conspiracy theories by a bunch of paranoid Windows haters and neither does anyone else that's why its took Linux 25 years to just get over 2% market share . Revelation... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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