AMD Radeon HD 7000 (Southern Islands / RadeonSI) On Fedora 19 Intel Core i7-4770K testing of Radeon HD 7000 Southern Islands (RadeonSI) graphics cards. Benchmarking by michael larabel for a future article on Phoronix.com. Also with proprietary NVIDIA and AMD Catalyst drivers added in. Open-Source: Radeon HD 6950: Processor: Intel Core i7-4770K @ 3.50GHz (8 Cores), Motherboard: Intel DH87RL, Chipset: Intel Haswell DRAM, Memory: 16384MB, Disk: 240GB OCZ VERTEX3, Graphics: AMD Radeon HD 6950 2048MB, Audio: Realtek ALC892, Monitor: VA2431, Network: Intel Connection I217-V OS: Fedora 19 (Schrdingers Cat), Kernel: 3.9.5-301.fc19.x86_64 (x86_64), Desktop: KDE 4.10.4, Display Server: X Server 1.14.1, Display Driver: radeon 7.1.99, OpenGL: 3.1 Mesa 9.2.0-devel Gallium 0.4, Compiler: GCC 4.8.1 20130603, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 1920x1080 Open-Source: Radeon HD 7850: Processor: Intel Core i7-4770K @ 3.50GHz (8 Cores), Motherboard: Intel DH87RL, Chipset: Intel Haswell DRAM, Memory: 16384MB, Disk: 240GB OCZ VERTEX3, Graphics: AMD Radeon HD 7850 1024MB, Audio: Realtek ALC892, Monitor: VA2431, Network: Intel Connection I217-V OS: Fedora 19 (Schrdingers Cat), Kernel: 3.9.5-301.fc19.x86_64 (x86_64), Desktop: KDE 4.10.4, Display Server: X Server 1.14.1, Display Driver: radeon 7.1.99, OpenGL: 2.1 Mesa 9.2.0-devel Gallium 0.4, Compiler: GCC 4.8.1 20130603, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 1920x1080 Open-Source: Radeon HD 7950: Processor: Intel Core i7-4770K @ 3.50GHz (8 Cores), Motherboard: Intel DH87RL, Chipset: Intel Haswell DRAM, Memory: 16384MB, Disk: 240GB OCZ VERTEX3, Graphics: AMD Radeon HD 7950 3072MB, Audio: Realtek ALC892, Monitor: VA2431, Network: Intel Connection I217-V OS: Fedora 19 (Schrdingers Cat), Kernel: 3.9.5-301.fc19.x86_64 (x86_64), Desktop: KDE 4.10.4, Display Server: X Server 1.14.1, Display Driver: radeon 7.1.99, OpenGL: 2.1 Mesa 9.2.0-devel Gallium 0.4, Compiler: GCC 4.8.1 20130603, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 1920x1080 Closed-Source: Radeon HD 6950: Processor: Intel Core i7-4770K @ 3.50GHz (8 Cores), Motherboard: Intel DH87RL, Chipset: Intel Haswell DRAM, Memory: 16384MB, Disk: 240GB OCZ VERTEX3, Graphics: AMD Radeon HD 6900 2048MB (800/1250MHz), Audio: Realtek ALC892, Monitor: VA2431, Network: Intel Connection I217-V OS: Fedora 19 (Schrdingers Cat), Kernel: 3.9.6-301.fc19.x86_64 (x86_64), Desktop: KDE 4.10.4, Display Server: X Server 1.14.1, Display Driver: fglrx 13.10.10, OpenGL: 4.2.12337, Compiler: GCC 4.8.1 20130603, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 1920x1080 Closed-Source: Radeon HD 7850: Processor: Intel Core i7-4770K @ 3.50GHz (8 Cores), Motherboard: Intel DH87RL, Chipset: Intel Haswell DRAM, Memory: 16384MB, Disk: 240GB OCZ VERTEX3, Graphics: AMD Radeon HD 7800 1024MB (860/1200MHz), Audio: Realtek ALC892, Monitor: VA2431, Network: Intel Connection I217-V OS: Fedora 19 (Schrdingers Cat), Kernel: 3.9.6-301.fc19.x86_64 (x86_64), Desktop: KDE 4.10.4, Display Server: X Server 1.14.1, Display Driver: fglrx 13.10.10, OpenGL: 4.2.12337, Compiler: GCC 4.8.1 20130603, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 1920x1080 Closed-Source: Radeon HD 7950: Processor: Intel Core i7-4770K @ 3.50GHz (8 Cores), Motherboard: Intel DH87RL, Chipset: Intel Haswell DRAM, Memory: 16384MB, Disk: 240GB OCZ VERTEX3, Graphics: AMD Radeon HD 7900 3072MB (900/1375MHz), Audio: Realtek ALC892, Monitor: VA2431, Network: Intel Connection I217-V OS: Fedora 19 (Schrdingers Cat), Kernel: 3.9.6-301.fc19.x86_64 (x86_64), Desktop: KDE 4.10.4, Display Server: X Server 1.14.1, Display Driver: fglrx 13.10.10, OpenGL: 4.2.12337, Compiler: GCC 4.8.1 20130603, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 1920x1080 Nexuiz 2.5.2 Resolution: 1920 x 1080 - HDR: Yes - Sound: Off Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better Open-Source: Radeon HD 6950 ... 98.33 |======================== Open-Source: Radeon HD 7850 ... 19.97 |===== Open-Source: Radeon HD 7950 ... 37.85 |========= Closed-Source: Radeon HD 6950 . 156.84 |======================================= Closed-Source: Radeon HD 7850 . 148.45 |===================================== Closed-Source: Radeon HD 7950 . 148.15 |===================================== OpenArena 0.8.5 Resolution: 1920 x 1080 Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better Open-Source: Radeon HD 6950 ... 360.53 |============================= Open-Source: Radeon HD 7850 ... 48.10 |==== Open-Source: Radeon HD 7950 ... 81.60 |======= Closed-Source: Radeon HD 6950 . 484.20 |======================================= Closed-Source: Radeon HD 7850 . 427.10 |================================== Closed-Source: Radeon HD 7950 . 445.70 |==================================== OpenArena 0.8.8 Resolution: 1920 x 1080 Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better Open-Source: Radeon HD 6950 ... 102.00 |================= Open-Source: Radeon HD 7850 ... 10.20 |== Open-Source: Radeon HD 7950 ... 15.70 |=== Closed-Source: Radeon HD 6950 . 215.70 |==================================== Closed-Source: Radeon HD 7850 . 215.63 |==================================== Closed-Source: Radeon HD 7950 . 233.07 |======================================= Reaction Quake 3 1.0 Beta Resolution: 1920 x 1080 Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better Open-Source: Radeon HD 6950 ... 137.37 |========= Open-Source: Radeon HD 7850 ... 20.57 |= Open-Source: Radeon HD 7950 ... 42.33 |=== Closed-Source: Radeon HD 6950 . 599.17 |======================================= Closed-Source: Radeon HD 7850 . 480.33 |=============================== Closed-Source: Radeon HD 7950 . 540.13 |=================================== Xonotic 0.7 Resolution: 1920 x 1080 - Effects Quality: Low Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better Open-Source: Radeon HD 6950 ... 259.78 |====================================== Open-Source: Radeon HD 7850 ... 48.24 |======= Open-Source: Radeon HD 7950 ... 85.69 |============= Closed-Source: Radeon HD 6950 . 263.17 |======================================= Closed-Source: Radeon HD 7850 . 252.08 |===================================== Closed-Source: Radeon HD 7950 . 256.53 |====================================== Xonotic 0.7 Resolution: 1920 x 1080 - Effects Quality: High Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better Open-Source: Radeon HD 6950 ... 168.08 |=================================== Open-Source: Radeon HD 7850 ... 24.97 |===== Open-Source: Radeon HD 7950 ... 44.15 |========= Closed-Source: Radeon HD 6950 . 187.59 |======================================= Closed-Source: Radeon HD 7850 . 177.62 |===================================== Closed-Source: Radeon HD 7950 . 181.99 |====================================== Xonotic 0.7 Resolution: 1920 x 1080 - Effects Quality: Ultra Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better Open-Source: Radeon HD 6950 ... 138.57 |================================== Open-Source: Radeon HD 7850 ... 30.04 |======= Open-Source: Radeon HD 7950 ... 51.84 |============= Closed-Source: Radeon HD 6950 . 161.05 |======================================= Closed-Source: Radeon HD 7850 . 152.10 |===================================== Closed-Source: Radeon HD 7950 . 155.58 |======================================