<table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0" ><tr><td valign="top" style="font: inherit;">That would be fine for a clean test between Radeon and Catalyst, but the first link has benchmarks of old releases of radeon that are way better than the current stable one....There are many regressions that haven't been addressed. --- On Thu, 7/15/10, Marek Olšák <maraeo@gmail.com> wrote: <blockquote style="border-left: 2px solid rgb(16, 16, 255); margin-left: 5px; padding-left: 5px;"> From: Marek Olšák <maraeo@gmail.com> Subject: Re: ATI open source vs Catalyst phoronix benchmarks To: "Andres Cimmarusti" <andrescimmarusti@yahoo.com> Cc: xorg-driver-ati@lists.x.org Date: Thursday, July 15, 2010, 1:29 PM <div id="yiv45075748">Michael should really be running xf86-video-ati and libdrm from git and latest kernel-rcX, otherwise the perfomance will continue to suck in his articles. There are performance improvements and there will be more as time goes by, but the majority of them is and will be disabled with old kernels and DDX drivers. -Marek On Thu, Jul 15, 2010 at 2:56 PM, Andres Cimmarusti <<a rel="nofollow" ymailto="mailto:andrescimmarusti@yahoo.com" target="_blank" href="/mc/compose?to=andrescimmarusti@yahoo.com">andrescimmarusti@yahoo.com</a>> wrote: > > ATI R300 Mesa, Gallium3D vs Catalyst > <a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=ati_r300_current&num=1">http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=ati_r300_current&num=1</a> > > ATI R500 Mesa vs Catalyst > <a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=ubuntu_lts_graphics&num=1">http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=ubuntu_lts_graphics&num=1</a> > > The first benchmark depressed me, as I have one of these cards... > > Andres > > > _______________________________________________ > xorg-driver-ati mailing list > <a rel="nofollow" ymailto="mailto:xorg-driver-ati@lists.x.org" target="_blank" href="/mc/compose?to=xorg-driver-ati@lists.x.org">xorg-driver-ati@lists.x.org</a> > <a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://lists.x.org/mailman/listinfo/xorg-driver-ati">http://lists.x.org/mailman/listinfo/xorg-driver-ati</a> > </div></blockquote></td></tr></table>