Ubuntu 12.10 vs. 13.10 AMD Radeon Drivers AMD Radeon tests on Ubuntu 12.10 and Ubuntu 13.10 with open-source Gallium3D Mesa and Catalyst driver options for AMD Radeon HD 4870 graphics card. Benchmarking by Michael Larabel for a future article on Phoronix.com. Ubuntu 12.10 - Stock: Processor: AMD Opteron 2384 @ 2.70GHz (4 Cores), Motherboard: TYAN S2927/S2927-E, Chipset: NVIDIA MCP55, Memory: 4096MB, Disk: 64GB AGILITY-EX, Graphics: AMD Radeon HD 4870 512MB, Audio: ATI R6xx HDMI, Monitor: Acer P243W OS: Ubuntu 12.10, Kernel: 3.5.0-17-generic (x86_64), Desktop: Xfce 4.10, Display Server: X Server 1.13.0, Display Driver: radeon 6.99.99, OpenGL: 2.1 Mesa 9.0.3 Gallium 0.4, Compiler: GCC 4.7, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 1920x1200 Ubuntu 12.10 - Catalyst: Processor: AMD Opteron 2384 @ 2.70GHz (4 Cores), Motherboard: TYAN S2927/S2927-E, Chipset: NVIDIA MCP55, Memory: 4096MB, Disk: 64GB AGILITY-EX, Graphics: ATI Radeon HD 4800 512MB (750/900MHz), Audio: ATI R6xx HDMI, Monitor: Acer P243W + Acer P243W OS: Ubuntu 12.10, Kernel: 3.5.0-17-generic (x86_64), Desktop: Xfce 4.10, Display Server: X Server 1.12.4, Display Driver: fglrx 8.97.2, OpenGL: 3.3.11672, Compiler: GCC 4.7, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 1920x1200 Ubuntu 13.10 - Stock: Processor: AMD Opteron 2384 @ 2.70GHz (4 Cores), Motherboard: TYAN S2927/S2927-E, Chipset: NVIDIA MCP55, Memory: 4096MB, Disk: 64GB AGILITY-EX + 128GB RVS02 SuperSpeed, Graphics: AMD Radeon HD 4870 512MB, Audio: ATI R6xx HDMI, Monitor: Acer P243W OS: Ubuntu 13.10, Kernel: 3.11.0-12-generic (x86_64), Desktop: Xfce 4.10, Display Server: X Server 1.14.3, Display Driver: radeon 7.2.0, OpenGL: 3.1 Mesa 9.2.1 Gallium 0.4, Compiler: GCC 4.8, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 1920x1200 Ubuntu 13.10 - Linux 3.12 DPM - Mesa 10: Processor: AMD Opteron 2384 @ 2.70GHz (4 Cores), Motherboard: TYAN S2927/S2927-E, Chipset: NVIDIA MCP55, Memory: 4096MB, Disk: 64GB AGILITY-EX + 128GB RVS02 SuperSpeed, Graphics: AMD Radeon HD 4870 512MB (750/900MHz), Audio: ATI R6xx HDMI, Monitor: Acer P243W OS: Ubuntu 13.10, Kernel: 3.12.0-031200-generic (x86_64), Desktop: Xfce 4.10, Display Server: X Server 1.14.3, Display Driver: radeon 7.2.99, OpenGL: 3.1 Mesa 10.0.0-devel (git-1100093 saucy-oibaf-ppa) Gallium 0.4, Compiler: GCC 4.8, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 1920x1200 Nexuiz 2.5.2 Resolution: 1920 x 1200 - HDR: Yes - Sound: Off Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better Ubuntu 12.10 - Stock .................... 67.56 |===================== Ubuntu 12.10 - Catalyst ................. 96.59 |============================== Ubuntu 13.10 - Stock .................... 51.67 |================ Ubuntu 13.10 - Linux 3.12 DPM - Mesa 10 . 57.33 |================== OpenArena 0.8.5 Resolution: 1920 x 1200 Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better Ubuntu 12.10 - Stock .................... 121.77 |============= Ubuntu 12.10 - Catalyst ................. 275.50 |============================= Ubuntu 13.10 - Stock .................... 170.00 |================== Ubuntu 13.10 - Linux 3.12 DPM - Mesa 10 . 207.83 |====================== OpenArena 0.8.8 Resolution: 1920 x 1200 Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better Ubuntu 12.10 - Stock .................... 20.10 |===== Ubuntu 12.10 - Catalyst ................. 127.27 |============================= Ubuntu 13.10 - Stock .................... 68.53 |================ Ubuntu 13.10 - Linux 3.12 DPM - Mesa 10 . 68.63 |================ OpenArena 0.8.8 Resolution: 1920 x 1200 - Total Frame Time Milliseconds < Lower Is Better Ubuntu 12.10 - Stock .................... MIN: 7 AVG: 41 MAX: 99 Ubuntu 12.10 - Catalyst ................. MIN: 2 AVG: 8 MAX: 63 Ubuntu 13.10 - Stock .................... MIN: 8 AVG: 15 MAX: 41 Ubuntu 13.10 - Linux 3.12 DPM - Mesa 10 . MIN: 8 AVG: 14 MAX: 40 Unvanquished Alpha 21 Resolution: 1920 x 1200 Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better Ubuntu 12.10 - Stock .................... 6.62 |======= Ubuntu 12.10 - Catalyst ................. 28.87 |============================== Ubuntu 13.10 - Stock .................... 19.23 |==================== Ubuntu 13.10 - Linux 3.12 DPM - Mesa 10 . 27.23 |============================ Warsow 1.0 Resolution: 1920 x 1200 Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better Ubuntu 12.10 - Stock .................... 22.77 |==== Ubuntu 12.10 - Catalyst ................. 173.13 |============================= Ubuntu 13.10 - Stock .................... 65.60 |=========== Ubuntu 13.10 - Linux 3.12 DPM - Mesa 10 . 70.77 |============ Xonotic 0.7 Resolution: 1920 x 1200 - Effects Quality: Low Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better Ubuntu 12.10 - Stock .................... 26.34 |===== Ubuntu 12.10 - Catalyst ................. 166.71 |============================= Ubuntu 13.10 - Stock .................... 76.52 |============= Ubuntu 13.10 - Linux 3.12 DPM - Mesa 10 . 86.88 |=============== Xonotic 0.7 Resolution: 1920 x 1200 - Effects Quality: High Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better Ubuntu 12.10 - Stock .................... 13.63 |=== Ubuntu 12.10 - Catalyst ................. 122.53 |============================= Ubuntu 13.10 - Stock .................... 52.99 |============= Ubuntu 13.10 - Linux 3.12 DPM - Mesa 10 . 61.11 |============== Xonotic 0.7 Resolution: 1920 x 1200 - Effects Quality: Ultra Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better Ubuntu 12.10 - Stock .................... 12.75 |==== Ubuntu 12.10 - Catalyst ................. 100.71 |============================= Ubuntu 13.10 - Stock .................... 46.98 |============== Ubuntu 13.10 - Linux 3.12 DPM - Mesa 10 . 54.13 |================ GpuTest 0.6.0 Test: Plot3D - Resolution: 1920 x 1200 Points > Higher Is Better Ubuntu 12.10 - Stock .................... 6289 |================= Ubuntu 12.10 - Catalyst ................. 10863 |============================== Ubuntu 13.10 - Stock .................... 6504 |================== Ubuntu 13.10 - Linux 3.12 DPM - Mesa 10 . 6564 |================== GpuTest 0.6.0 Test: Furmark - Resolution: 1920 x 1200 Points > Higher Is Better Ubuntu 12.10 - Stock .................... 534 |===================== Ubuntu 12.10 - Catalyst ................. 697 |=========================== Ubuntu 13.10 - Stock .................... 495 |=================== Ubuntu 13.10 - Linux 3.12 DPM - Mesa 10 . 830 |================================ GpuTest 0.6.0 Test: Triangle - Resolution: 1920 x 1200 Points > Higher Is Better Ubuntu 12.10 - Stock .................... 21090 |==== Ubuntu 12.10 - Catalyst ................. 164396 |============================= Ubuntu 13.10 - Stock .................... 25091 |==== Ubuntu 13.10 - Linux 3.12 DPM - Mesa 10 . 25170 |==== Unvanquished Alpha 21 Resolution: 1920 x 1200 - Total Frame Time Milliseconds < Lower Is Better Ubuntu 12.10 - Catalyst ................. MIN: 12 AVG: 34 MAX: 98 Ubuntu 13.10 - Stock .................... MIN: 8 AVG: 33 MAX: 99 Ubuntu 13.10 - Linux 3.12 DPM - Mesa 10 . MIN: 12 AVG: 27 MAX: 98 Doom 3 1.3.1 Resolution: 1920 x 1200 - Quality: High Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better Ubuntu 12.10 - Catalyst ................. 138.87 |============================= Ubuntu 13.10 - Stock .................... 66.37 |============== Ubuntu 13.10 - Linux 3.12 DPM - Mesa 10 . 67.90 |============== Prey 1.4.119 Resolution: 1920 x 1200 Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better Ubuntu 12.10 - Catalyst ................. 107.97 |============================= Ubuntu 13.10 - Stock .................... 79.13 |===================== Ubuntu 13.10 - Linux 3.12 DPM - Mesa 10 . 90.90 |======================== Unigine Sanctuary 2.3 Resolution: 1280 x 1024 Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better Ubuntu 12.10 - Catalyst ................. 91.35 |============================== Ubuntu 13.10 - Stock .................... 33.68 |=========== Ubuntu 13.10 - Linux 3.12 DPM - Mesa 10 . 49.44 |================ Unigine Tropics 1.3 Resolution: 1280 x 1024 Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better Ubuntu 12.10 - Catalyst ................. 68.54 |============================== Ubuntu 13.10 - Stock .................... 35.50 |================ Ubuntu 13.10 - Linux 3.12 DPM - Mesa 10 . 44.69 |====================