Quoting: Nyamiou

Quoting: ricki42Either way, you should argue the facts, not the character of the author.

The fact is that benchmark is badly done, with a very old rig that no hardcore gamer who care about performance would have, with nonsense resolutions since SteamOS is dedicated to run on TVs and without giving much informations about the actual SteamOS version used or the methodology. I don't contest the fact that some game, especially AAA games have not as good performances as they have on Windows, I only contest those exaggerated results coming from an (intentionally) unprofessionally done benchmark, the wording and the conclusion obviously.

What difference does the hardware make as long as they use it on both sides? Also, older hardware tends to run better on Linux anyway. A Windows apologist might argue that the bias is in favour of Linux.

Me? I just shrug it off and say: Can't win 'em all.

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Quoting: TobiSGDI am not sure why they do it, but somehow over the whole announcement of this stuff they (intentionally?) tell people that this is a rewrite of their drivers, when in reality is only a rewrite of their settings dialog. As that, it will not lead to better performance or anything else, just a new interface. Anyone reading what AMD employees write on forums like Phoronix knows that AMD simply lacks developers to stem something like a complete rewrite of the Catalyst drivers (at one point they even pointed out that there are now changelogs for their drivers because they don't have the manpower to deliver those).

To be fair most other sites aren't referring to it as a driver so I suspect that this is a journalistic issue.

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