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#IS OPENGL 4.4 STILL GOOD DRIVERS#
The same Intel Core i7 5960X Haswell-E system as used in the previous SteamOS tests in the past few days was used for this comparison on SteamOS with proprietary drivers versus Ubuntu 15.10 with the latest Nouveau/Radeon drivers. All other Ubuntu/SteamOS packages/settings were at their defaults unless otherwise noted. Again, on the proprietary driver side was Catalyst 15.9 and NVIDIA 352.30. This basically is providing the latest mainline open-source graphics driver experience as of earlier this week. Beyond just running Ubuntu 15.10, I also switched over to using the Linux 4.3 Git kernel and enabled the Padoka PPA for Mesa 11.1-devel plus LLVM 3.8 SVN. As Valve's SteamOS ships with the proprietary drivers enabled by default and is anyhow on an older version of the Linux kernel, etc, I carried out the open-source driver tests on Ubuntu 15.10 to get as fresh of an experience as possible. This article is to serve as a look at the open-source graphics driver performance compared to the proprietary AMD Catalyst and NVIDIA graphics drivers on SteamOS. Over the past week on Phoronix have been several featured articles looking at the performance of SteamOS with the proprietary AMD/NVIDIA graphics drivers: 22-Way Comparison Of NVIDIA/AMD Graphics Cards On SteamOS, 4K AMD/NVIDIA High-End GPU Comparison On SteamOS, and Is SteamOS Any Faster Than Ubuntu 15.10 Linux? One of the frequent questions that have come up since then is how the open-source driver performance compares to that of the binary blobs on SteamOS, so here are some of those benchmarks.