AMD FirePro With Open-Source Drivers What happens if you use open-source AMD drivers with Gallium3D on open-source drivers? This is a relative comparison of several AMD FirePro ASICs to the closed-source Catalyst driver to see how the performance differs between open and closed drivers for workstation FirePro and consumer Radeon hardware. FirePro V3800: Gallium3D: Processor: Intel Core i5-2500K @ 3.30GHz (4 Cores), Motherboard: SAPPHIRE Pure Black P67 Hydra, Chipset: Intel Sandy Bridge, Memory: 2816MB, Disk: 250GB Seagate ST3250310AS, Graphics: ATI Device 68c9 (650/900MHz), Monitor: DELL P2210H OS: Ubuntu 10.10, Kernel: 2.6.38-020638-generic (x86_64), Desktop: GNOME 2.32.0, Display Server: X Server 1.9.0, Display Driver: radeon 6.14.99, OpenGL: 2.1 Mesa 7.11-devel Gallium 0.4, Compiler: GCC 4.4.5, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 1920x1080 FirePro V3800: Catalyst: Processor: Intel Core i5-2500K @ 3.30GHz (4 Cores), Motherboard: SAPPHIRE Pure Black P67 Hydra, Chipset: Intel Sandy Bridge, Memory: 2816MB, Disk: 250GB Seagate ST3250310AS, Graphics: ATI FirePro 3800 (FireGL) 512MB, Monitor: DELL P2210H OS: Ubuntu 10.10, Kernel: 2.6.35-22-generic (x86_64), Desktop: GNOME 2.32.0, Display Server: X Server 1.9.0, Display Driver: fglrx 8.82.8 Catalyst 11.2, OpenGL: 4.1.10524, Compiler: GCC 4.4.5, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 1920x1080 FirePro V4800: Gallium3D: Processor: Intel Core i5-2500K @ 3.30GHz (4 Cores), Motherboard: SAPPHIRE Pure Black P67 Hydra, Chipset: Intel Sandy Bridge, Memory: 2816MB, Disk: 250GB Seagate ST3250310AS, Graphics: ATI FirePro V4800 (775/900MHz), Monitor: DELL P2210H OS: Ubuntu 10.10, Kernel: 2.6.38-020638-generic (x86_64), Desktop: GNOME 2.32.0, Display Server: X Server 1.9.0, Display Driver: radeon 6.14.99, OpenGL: 2.1 Mesa 7.11-devel Gallium 0.4, Compiler: GCC 4.4.5, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 1920x1080 FirePro V4800: Catalyst: Processor: Intel Core i5-2500K @ 3.30GHz (4 Cores), Motherboard: SAPPHIRE Pure Black P67 Hydra, Chipset: Intel Sandy Bridge, Memory: 2816MB, Disk: 250GB Seagate ST3250310AS, Graphics: ATI FirePro V4800 (FireGL) 1024MB, Monitor: DELL P2210H OS: Ubuntu 10.10, Kernel: 2.6.35-22-generic (x86_64), Desktop: GNOME 2.32.0, Display Server: X Server 1.9.0, Display Driver: fglrx 8.82.8 Catalyst 11.2, OpenGL: 4.1.10524, Compiler: GCC 4.4.5, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 1920x1080 FirePro V8700: Gallium3D: Processor: Intel Core i5-2500K @ 3.30GHz (4 Cores), Motherboard: SAPPHIRE Pure Black P67 Hydra, Chipset: Intel Sandy Bridge, Memory: 2816MB, Disk: 250GB Seagate ST3250310AS, Graphics: ATI Device 9456 (750/850MHz), Monitor: DELL P2210H OS: Ubuntu 10.10, Kernel: 2.6.38-020638-generic (x86_64), Desktop: GNOME 2.32.0, Display Server: X Server 1.9.0, Display Driver: radeon 6.14.99, OpenGL: 2.1 Mesa 7.11-devel Gallium 0.4, Compiler: GCC 4.4.5, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 1920x1080 FirePro V8700: Catalyst: Processor: Intel Core i5-2500K @ 3.30GHz (4 Cores), Motherboard: SAPPHIRE Pure Black P67 Hydra, Chipset: Intel Sandy Bridge, Memory: 2816MB, Disk: 250GB Seagate ST3250310AS, Graphics: ATI FirePro V8700 (FireGL) 1024MB (750/850MHz), Monitor: DELL P2210H OS: Ubuntu 10.10, Kernel: 2.6.35-22-generic (x86_64), Desktop: GNOME 2.32.0, Display Server: X Server 1.9.0, Display Driver: fglrx 8.82.8 Catalyst 11.2, OpenGL: 3.3.10524, Compiler: GCC 4.4.5, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 1920x1080 Radeon HD 4770: Gallium3D: Processor: Intel Core i5-2500K @ 3.30GHz (4 Cores), Motherboard: SAPPHIRE Pure Black P67 Hydra, Chipset: Intel Sandy Bridge, Memory: 2816MB, Disk: 250GB Seagate ST3250310AS, Graphics: ATI Radeon HD 4770 [RV740] (750/799MHz), Monitor: DELL P2210H OS: Ubuntu 10.10, Kernel: 2.6.38-020638-generic (x86_64), Desktop: GNOME 2.32.0, Display Server: X Server 1.9.0, Display Driver: radeon 6.14.99, OpenGL: 2.1 Mesa 7.11-devel Gallium 0.4, Compiler: GCC 4.4.5, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 1920x1080 Radeon HD 4770: Catalyst: Processor: Intel Core i5-2500K @ 3.30GHz (4 Cores), Motherboard: SAPPHIRE Pure Black P67 Hydra, Chipset: Intel Sandy Bridge, Memory: 2816MB, Disk: 250GB Seagate ST3250310AS, Graphics: ATI Radeon HD 4770 512MB (750/800MHz), Monitor: DELL P2210H OS: Ubuntu 10.10, Kernel: 2.6.35-22-generic (x86_64), Desktop: GNOME 2.32.0, Display Server: X Server 1.9.0, Display Driver: fglrx 8.82.8 Catalyst 11.2, OpenGL: 3.3.10524, Compiler: GCC 4.4.5, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 1920x1080 Radeon HD 5770: Gallium3D: Processor: Intel Core i5-2500K @ 3.30GHz (4 Cores), Motherboard: SAPPHIRE Pure Black P67 Hydra, Chipset: Intel Sandy Bridge, Memory: 2816MB, Disk: 250GB Seagate ST3250310AS, Graphics: AMD Radeon HD 5700 (850/1200MHz), Monitor: DELL P2210H OS: Ubuntu 10.10, Kernel: 2.6.38-020638-generic (x86_64), Desktop: GNOME 2.32.0, Display Server: X Server 1.9.0, Display Driver: radeon 6.14.99, OpenGL: 2.1 Mesa 7.11-devel Gallium 0.4, Compiler: GCC 4.4.5, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 1920x1080 Radeon HD 5770: Catalyst: Processor: Intel Core i5-2500K @ 3.30GHz (4 Cores), Motherboard: SAPPHIRE Pure Black P67 Hydra, Chipset: Intel Sandy Bridge, Memory: 2816MB, Disk: 250GB Seagate ST3250310AS, Graphics: ATI Radeon HD 5700 1024MB (850/1200MHz), Monitor: DELL P2210H OS: Ubuntu 10.10, Kernel: 2.6.35-22-generic (x86_64), Desktop: GNOME 2.32.0, Display Server: X Server 1.9.0, Display Driver: fglrx 8.82.8 Catalyst 11.2, OpenGL: 4.1.10524, Compiler: GCC 4.4.5, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 1920x1080 Nexuiz 2.5.2 Resolution: 1920 x 1080 - HDR: No - Sound: Off Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better FirePro V3800: Gallium3D .. 15.89 |=== FirePro V3800: Catalyst ... 50.06 |=========== FirePro V4800: Gallium3D .. 23.16 |===== FirePro V4800: Catalyst ... 118.89 |========================= FirePro V8700: Gallium3D .. 31.68 |======= FirePro V8700: Catalyst ... 204.21 |=========================================== Radeon HD 4770: Gallium3D . 27.78 |====== Radeon HD 4770: Catalyst .. 140.70 |============================== Radeon HD 5770: Gallium3D . 30.18 |====== Radeon HD 5770: Catalyst .. 160.04 |================================== Warsow 0.5 Resolution: 1920 x 1080 Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better FirePro V3800: Gallium3D .. 28.43 |==== FirePro V3800: Catalyst ... 81.63 |============ FirePro V4800: Gallium3D .. 42.80 |====== FirePro V4800: Catalyst ... 212.70 |=============================== FirePro V8700: Gallium3D .. 57.73 |======== FirePro V8700: Catalyst ... 271.17 |======================================== Radeon HD 4770: Gallium3D . 51.38 |======== Radeon HD 4770: Catalyst .. 227.40 |================================= Radeon HD 5770: Gallium3D . 55.70 |======== Radeon HD 5770: Catalyst .. 293.77 |=========================================== OpenArena 0.8.5 Resolution: 1920 x 1080 Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better FirePro V3800: Gallium3D .. 44.67 |===== FirePro V3800: Catalyst ... 128.27 |============== FirePro V4800: Gallium3D .. 79.10 |========= FirePro V4800: Catalyst ... 290.33 |================================ FirePro V8700: Gallium3D .. 110.40 |============ FirePro V8700: Catalyst ... 383.23 |=========================================== Radeon HD 4770: Gallium3D . 88.70 |========== Radeon HD 4770: Catalyst .. 300.87 |================================== Radeon HD 5770: Gallium3D . 100.80 |=========== Radeon HD 5770: Catalyst .. 384.77 |=========================================== VDrift 2010-06-30 Resolution: 1920 x 1080 Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better FirePro V3800: Gallium3D .. 20.08 |================== FirePro V3800: Catalyst ... 14.46 |============= FirePro V4800: Gallium3D .. 30.69 |=========================== FirePro V4800: Catalyst ... 26.84 |======================== FirePro V8700: Gallium3D .. 37.15 |================================= FirePro V8700: Catalyst ... 48.51 |=========================================== Radeon HD 4770: Gallium3D . 31.71 |============================ Radeon HD 4770: Catalyst .. 40.49 |==================================== Radeon HD 5770: Gallium3D . 35.12 |=============================== Radeon HD 5770: Catalyst .. 50.04 |============================================ Lightsmark 2008 Resolution: 1920 x 1080 Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better FirePro V3800: Gallium3D .. 21.31 |== FirePro V3800: Catalyst ... 207.30 |================ FirePro V4800: Gallium3D .. 27.38 |== FirePro V4800: Catalyst ... 323.25 |========================== FirePro V8700: Gallium3D .. 41.96 |=== FirePro V8700: Catalyst ... 486.50 |====================================== Radeon HD 4770: Gallium3D . 35.68 |=== Radeon HD 4770: Catalyst .. 430.00 |================================== Radeon HD 5770: Gallium3D . 39.76 |=== Radeon HD 5770: Catalyst .. 544.67 |===========================================