Open-Source AMD Fusion Graphics Still Mixed  Published on 29
April 2011 Written by Michael Larabel Page 3 of 5 - 16 Comments
The VDrift racing game had run with the Gallium3D driver on the
AMD Fusion E-350 setup, but the car's windows were white rather
than their appropriate textures that are shown when using other
Radeon hardware, other Gallium3D drivers, and the Catalyst
driver.  Our other tests though had now worked fine with the AMD
E-350 under Gallium3D, so we also ran some benchmarks.  The test
system was an AMD E-350 dual-core at 1.60GHz on an ASUS E35M1-M
PRO motherboard, 4GB of system memory, 64GB OCZ Vertex SSD, and
the Radeon HD 6300 graphics found on the APU. In this article
the Gallium3D and Catalyst driver performance is just being
compared, but once this open-source support is more mature, we
will also compare its performance to some discrete graphics
cards.  Ubuntu 10.10 x86_64 was the operating system under test
with the GNOME 2.32.0 desktop, X.Org Server 1.9.0, GCC 4.4.5,
and EXT4 file-syst