There are some significant performance improvements to find with this week's Linux version of the AMD Catalyst 14.12 "Omega" driver, but there's also some Linux OpenGL performance regressions to note too. Feedback from the Linux community as well to this new driver has been mixed.

The Catalyst 14.12 driver was released on Tuesday for Windows and Linux users. The Catalyst Linux driver update was a very significant update with OpenCL 2.0, VA-API video decoding, OpenGL ES 3.0, and numerous other features as previously outlined. For those that haven't yet run comparison tests on your own hardware for the proprietary Linux graphics driver, I ran some tests today to see how Catalyst 14.12 does on Ubuntu 14.10.