R600 Radeon / Gallium3D 2D Color Tiling Testing out the latest R600+ Radeon / Gallium3D 2D Color tiling with the latest Git of drm-next, Mesa 8.1-devel Git master, and xf86-video-ati Git as of 15 March. Comparing same stack when enabling ColorTiling and ColorTiling2D from the Radeon xorg.conf as well as setting R600_SURF=1 environment variable. Testing with a Radeon HD 4890 and Radeon HD 6950. Benchmarking by Michael Larabel for a future article on Phoronix.com. Radeon HD 4890: No Tiling: Processor: Intel Core i7-3960X @ 3.20GHz (12 Cores), Motherboard: Intel DX79SI, Chipset: Intel Sandy DMI2, Memory: 16384MB, Disk: 240GB OCZ VERTEX3, Graphics: AMD Radeon HD 4890 1024MB, Audio: Realtek ALC892, Monitor: DELL P2210H, Network: Intel 82579LM Gigabit Connection OS: Ubuntu 12.04, Kernel: 3.3.0-996-generic (x86_64), Desktop: Unity 5.4.0, Display Server: X Server 1.11.3, Display Driver: radeon 6.14.99, OpenGL: 2.1 Mesa 8.1-devel (git-177ccd2) Gallium 0.4, Compiler: GCC 4.6, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 1920x1080 Radeon HD 4890: 2D Color Tiling: Processor: Intel Core i7-3960X @ 3.20GHz (12 Cores), Motherboard: Intel DX79SI, Chipset: Intel Sandy DMI2, Memory: 16384MB, Disk: 240GB OCZ VERTEX3, Graphics: AMD Radeon HD 4890 1024MB, Audio: Realtek ALC892, Monitor: DELL P2210H, Network: Intel 82579LM Gigabit Connection OS: Ubuntu 12.04, Kernel: 3.3.0-996-generic (x86_64), Desktop: Unity 5.4.0, Display Server: X Server 1.11.3, Display Driver: radeon 6.14.99, OpenGL: 2.1 Mesa 8.1-devel (git-177ccd2) Gallium 0.4, Compiler: GCC 4.6, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 1920x1080 Radeon HD 6950: No Tiling: Processor: Intel Core i7-3960X @ 3.20GHz (12 Cores), Motherboard: Intel DX79SI, Chipset: Intel Sandy DMI2, Memory: 16384MB, Disk: 240GB OCZ VERTEX3, Graphics: AMD Radeon HD 6950 2048MB, Audio: Realtek ALC892, Monitor: DELL P2210H, Network: Intel 82579LM Gigabit Connection OS: Ubuntu 12.04, Kernel: 3.3.0-996-generic (x86_64), Desktop: Unity 5.4.0, Display Server: X Server 1.11.3, Display Driver: radeon 6.14.99, OpenGL: 2.1 Mesa 8.1-devel (git-177ccd2) Gallium 0.4, Compiler: GCC 4.6, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 1920x1080 Radeon HD 6950: 2D Color Tiling: Processor: Intel Core i7-3960X @ 3.20GHz (12 Cores), Motherboard: Intel DX79SI, Chipset: Intel Sandy DMI2, Memory: 16384MB, Disk: 240GB OCZ VERTEX3, Graphics: AMD Radeon HD 6950 2048MB, Audio: Realtek ALC892, Monitor: DELL P2210H, Network: Intel 82579LM Gigabit Connection OS: Ubuntu 12.04, Kernel: 3.3.0-996-generic (x86_64), Desktop: Unity 5.4.0, Display Server: X Server 1.11.3, Display Driver: radeon 6.14.99, OpenGL: 2.1 Mesa 8.1-devel (git-177ccd2) Gallium 0.4, Compiler: GCC 4.6, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 1920x1080 Nexuiz 2.5.2 Resolution: 1920 x 1080 - HDR: Yes - Sound: Off Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better Radeon HD 4890: No Tiling ....... 29.78 |====================== Radeon HD 4890: 2D Color Tiling . 50.35 |====================================== Radeon HD 6950: No Tiling ....... 33.91 |========================== Radeon HD 6950: 2D Color Tiling . 35.65 |=========================== Xonotic 0.6 Resolution: 1024 x 768 - Effects Quality: Low Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better Radeon HD 4890: No Tiling ....... 202.95 |================================= Radeon HD 4890: 2D Color Tiling . 221.38 |==================================== Radeon HD 6950: No Tiling ....... 220.81 |==================================== Radeon HD 6950: 2D Color Tiling . 225.43 |===================================== Xonotic 0.6 Resolution: 1024 x 768 - Effects Quality: High Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better Radeon HD 4890: No Tiling ....... 91.64 |=========================== Radeon HD 4890: 2D Color Tiling . 120.10 |=================================== Radeon HD 6950: No Tiling ....... 111.15 |================================= Radeon HD 6950: 2D Color Tiling . 125.21 |===================================== Xonotic 0.6 Resolution: 1920 x 1080 - Effects Quality: Low Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better Radeon HD 4890: No Tiling ....... 101.78 |===================== Radeon HD 4890: 2D Color Tiling . 175.10 |==================================== Radeon HD 6950: No Tiling ....... 135.47 |=========================== Radeon HD 6950: 2D Color Tiling . 182.48 |===================================== Xonotic 0.6 Resolution: 1920 x 1080 - Effects Quality: High Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better Radeon HD 4890: No Tiling ....... 57.07 |======================== Radeon HD 4890: 2D Color Tiling . 85.81 |=================================== Radeon HD 6950: No Tiling ....... 84.72 |=================================== Radeon HD 6950: 2D Color Tiling . 92.05 |====================================== OpenArena 0.8.5 Resolution: 1280 x 1024 Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better Radeon HD 4890: No Tiling ....... 243.97 |==================================== Radeon HD 4890: 2D Color Tiling . 252.07 |===================================== Radeon HD 6950: No Tiling ....... 251.37 |===================================== Radeon HD 6950: 2D Color Tiling . 251.87 |===================================== OpenArena 0.8.5 Resolution: 1920 x 1080 Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better Radeon HD 4890: No Tiling ....... 121.07 |=================== Radeon HD 4890: 2D Color Tiling . 198.67 |=============================== Radeon HD 6950: No Tiling ....... 183.63 |============================= Radeon HD 6950: 2D Color Tiling . 235.97 |===================================== World of Padman 1.2 Resolution: 1920 x 1080 Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better Radeon HD 4890: No Tiling ....... 38.57 |============ Radeon HD 4890: 2D Color Tiling . 34.33 |=========== Radeon HD 6950: No Tiling ....... 115.70 |===================================== Radeon HD 6950: 2D Color Tiling . 33.10 |=========== Warsow 0.61 Resolution: 1280 x 1024 Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better Radeon HD 4890: No Tiling ....... 32.53 |================================ Radeon HD 4890: 2D Color Tiling . 36.50 |=================================== Radeon HD 6950: No Tiling ....... 36.33 |=================================== Radeon HD 6950: 2D Color Tiling . 39.23 |====================================== Warsow 0.61 Resolution: 1920 x 1080 Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better Radeon HD 4890: No Tiling ....... 27.20 |============================== Radeon HD 4890: 2D Color Tiling . 31.83 |=================================== Radeon HD 6950: No Tiling ....... 31.57 |=================================== Radeon HD 6950: 2D Color Tiling . 34.70 |====================================== Nexuiz 2.5.2 Resolution: 1024 x 768 - HDR: No - Sound: Off Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better Radeon HD 4890: No Tiling ....... 129.65 |======================= Radeon HD 4890: 2D Color Tiling . 193.43 |================================== Radeon HD 6950: No Tiling ....... 167.75 |============================== Radeon HD 6950: 2D Color Tiling . 209.14 |===================================== Nexuiz 2.5.2 Resolution: 1920 x 1080 - HDR: No - Sound: Off Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better Radeon HD 4890: No Tiling ....... 56.30 |============================ Radeon HD 4890: 2D Color Tiling . 76.58 |====================================== Radeon HD 6950: No Tiling ....... 37.51 |=================== Radeon HD 6950: 2D Color Tiling . 43.45 |======================