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Pontostroy has done lots of testing
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I (as a Nvidia user eying to get a Polaris card) had the same question and based on feedback I got on the Phoronix forum it isn't even a valid question as AMDGPU-Pro and Gallium-Nine are completely different things.
My current understanding (and that might be wrong, as I am no AMD user):
There is a common kernel component of the open-source driver and the "pro" one, but on the user space part these are totally separate and the DX9 state tracker gallium-nine is a part of the open-source user-space driver and can not be made to work with the "pro" driver.
So it seems like you can either have better OpenGL/vulkan performance with the "pro" driver, or dx9-wine support with the fully open-source one, but not both the same time. There also seems to be no quick way of switching user-space drivers... and even if there were I assume it would be a similar mess as with Nvidia-optimus (i.e. you have to log-out to switch drivers).
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AMD R9 390X btw.
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Thanks, exactly what I was looking for. Being a hybrid driver I was unsure. I have not been able to get the newest AMDGPU Pro driver working in Arch yet. When I tried it on ubuntu, it only worked through my HDMI port with DVI it would just freeze after login.
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AMD did say they intend to open source their Vulkan driver down the line. Hopefully it won't be too far off as I would prefer to stay with mesa+gallium-nine while benefiting from the latest technology.
The way I see it the open source drivers are going to offer better compatibility and performance for older titles as they continue to mature, whereas the AMD pro drivers were never that great in OpenGL and they are going to shift the focus towards Vulkan.
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The Pro beta2 drivers work well with many games except a few which is due to BAD ports and those games generally run bad on NVIDIA hardware as well. (ie. CompanyOfHeroes2, Dying Light, Inter..Marines, Savage Lands) The last two are small indie games however.
To my surprise Shadow Of Mordor runs REALLY good with the drivers.
We really need DX11 for Wine! sigh...