For those still using old AMD GCN 1.0 "Southern Islands" or GCN 1.1 "Sea Islands" graphics cards, the upcoming Linux 6.19 kernel is a wonderful holiday gift. With Linux 6.19, the GCN 1.0/1.1 GPUs are now defaulting to the modern AMDGPU kernel driver in place of the legacy "Radeon" DRM driver that has been the default for GCN 1.1/1.0 and other ATI/AMD graphics processors of the past 2+ decades. In this article is a look at the performance benefit of now AMDGPU being the default as well as now enabling RADV Vulkan support out-of-the-box.

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[–] 20 points 10 months ago

😍 god I love open source ❤️

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  • [–] 4 points 10 months ago

    Welp. Time to pull my 7970 out of storage. I was planning to pull it apart and put the pieces in a shadowbox on the wall... but if it's 30% faster now I might throw it back in my server and play around!

    Huzzah for open source!

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