| The Open-Source ATI Driver Is Becoming A Lot Faster |  |
| Written by Phoronix | ||
| Thursday, 13 January 2011 | ||
The Open-Source ATI Driver Is Becoming A Lot Faster
Now that the kernel mode-setting page-flipping for the ATI Radeon DRM kernel module has been merged into the Linux 2.6.38 kernel and the respective bits have been set in the xf86-video-ati DDX, we're in the process of running new open-source ATI graphics benchmarks under Linux. Our initial results (included in this article) show these latest improvements to cause some major performance boosts for the open-source ATI driver as it nears the level of performance of the proprietary
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