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Linux 6.19 Improves Radeon HD 7950’s Performance By 30% With AMDGPU Driver

A Sapphire Radeon HD 7950 graphics card with visible branding on a red and black background.

New benchmarks show that transitioning from Radeon to the AMDGPU driver brings a solid performance boost for ancient AMD GPUs. Radeon HD 7950 Brings Outstanding Performance Gains via AMDGPU Driver in Linux Kernel 6.19 Not long ago, new patches for transitioning ancient AMD GPUs to the newer AMDGPU driver module were submitted. As both GCN 1.1 (Sea Islands) and GCN 1.0 (Southern Islands) will now leave the Radeon driver and adopt the newer AMDGPU driver module, which is used for newer AMD GPUs, we will see the effects of the transition in real-world applications. The Linux kernel 6.19, which is […]

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