AMD Catalyst vs. X.Org Radeon Driver 2D Performance
Written by Michael Larabel in Display Drivers on 18 January 2009 at 08:05 AM EST. Page 2 of 9. 50 Comments.
With the GtkCheckButton, GtkRadioButton, and GtkTextView - Scroll tests, the Catalyst driver remained in front and was showing a slightly stronger position over the open-source ATI driver. To reiterate, each driver was left in its stock configuration with no extra xorg.conf options being set or AMDPCSDB options being assigned.