An Updated Look At Radeon Gallium3D 2D Color Tiling
Written by Michael Larabel in Display Drivers on 21 March 2012 at 12:00 PM EDT. Page 2 of 5. 21 Comments.
Both graphics cards were faster with 2D color tiling enabled for the Radeon HD 4890 and Radeon HD 6950 graphics cards. On an unrelated note, one item I have noticed in recent weeks is the performance of the open-source Radeon driver becoming far less stable in terms of performance, as we can be seen by the error bars/indicators on some of the graphs.
The benefits of 2D color tiling are quite noticeable for the modern ATI/AMD Radeon graphics hardware on the open-source stack.