Linux 3.12 Brings Big AMD Radeon Improvements

mortals · 12 Oct 2013 at 18:15

Not sure if anyone has seen this today..

Linux 3.12 Brings Big AMD Radeon Improvements

Looking forward to testing this with some steam games

Hades · 12 Oct 2013 at 18:41

Seing as I've just moved to AMD this makes me a happy puppy

Kobi · 13 Oct 2013 at 00:05

Yeah, its great to see linux come alive. Long overdue!

bledd · 13 Oct 2013 at 09:59

Anyone else irked by version numbers like that?

Fast easier to distinguish between them if it's 3.09 then 3.10.

Going from 3.9 to 3.10 looks odd

Edit. Great performance boost!

Angst · 13 Oct 2013 at 10:59

Good to see, will make my laptop slightly more usefull as a gaming platform.

KIA · 13 Oct 2013 at 12:49

Not bad!

Bluelion · 16 Oct 2013 at 20:55

bledd. said:
Anyone else irked by version numbers like that?

Fast easier to distinguish between them if it's 3.09 then 3.10.

Going from 3.9 to 3.10 looks odd

Edit. Great performance boost!

I see where you are coming from, but the "3.09" approach limits you to a maximum of 100 revisions - which for Linux revisions is a number which could be reached. If they wanted to account for all versions they'd need something like 003.009 which I think looks most odd!

FirebarUK · 17 Oct 2013 at 18:04

If you're running fglrx you're probably already getting these framerates

I believe these improvements were all measured with the fully open source Gallium driver.

PhilGQ · 18 Oct 2013 at 17:11

bledd. said:
Anyone else irked by version numbers like that?

Fast easier to distinguish between them if it's 3.09 then 3.10.

Going from 3.9 to 3.10 looks odd

Edit. Great performance boost!

I was thinking that myself, especially after being on 2.6.whatever since what 2003.