AMD RDNA 3.5 Graphics On 2025 Drivers: Windows 11 vs. Ubuntu 25.04 iGPU Performance
With Furmark that offers both OpenGL and Vulkan options for stressing the GPU while the software being native to both Windows and Linux, the results were mixed. Each OS racked up a few wins both on OpenGL and Vulkan.
With the mix of OpenGL benchmarks from GpuTest, Windows 11 was racking up some of the wins but overall Ubuntu 25.04 beta continued providing healthy competition against Microsoft Windows.
Overall with this range of native graphics performance on both Windows 11 and Ubuntu 25.04 for both OpenGL and Vulkan, it shows the open-source AMD graphics driver stack with the AMDGPU kernel driver on Linux 6.15 and then the Mesa RadeonSI/RADV drivers were largely competitive with the official Radeon Software Windows drivers. The one exception is with Vulkan ray-tracing performance on the official AMD drivers being superior to what's currently provided by RADV, but the rest of the time it was a nice and competitive race for the RDNA 3.5 (Radeon 880M) integrated graphics on Linux and Windows.
Stay tuned for more AMD Ryzen AI 7 PRO 360 benchmarks on the Lenovo ThinkPad T14s Gen 6 over the next few weeks in exploring this hardware under Linux.
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