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by uep 3157 days ago
Your older Phoronix link misses out on the large performance increases that were made this year once OpenGL 4.5 support was completed.

https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=radeonsi...

The AMD open source driver is just about on-par with their closed source Windows driver. One of the benefits of Open Source is also being utilized now. Game companies like Feral Interactive, who develop many Linux ports, have been improving the driver's performance for their games.

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I just wanted a comparison between NVIDIA binary drivers and AMD open-source drivers. I know the comparison is old, I even added a footnote explaining this, saying that current performance of open source-drivers is even better.