2013 Radeon Gallium3D Linux Testing by Michael Larabel for a future article on Phoronix looking at year end 2013 Radeon HD 4890 and Radeon HD 6950 performance between Ubuntu 13.10 and Ubuntu 14.04 Linux. Ubuntu 12.10: Radeon HD 4890: Processor: Intel Core i7-3770K @ 3.50GHz (8 Cores), Motherboard: ECS Z77H2-A2X v1.0, Chipset: Intel Xeon E3-1200 v2/3rd, Memory: 8192MB, Disk: 160GB INTEL SSDSA2M160, Graphics: ASUS AMD Radeon HD 4890 1024MB, Audio: Realtek ALC892, Monitor: SE39UY04, Network: Realtek RTL8111/8168B + Intel Centrino Advanced-N 6205 OS: Ubuntu 12.10, Kernel: 3.5.0-44-generic (x86_64), Desktop: Unity 6.12.0, 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: 1920x1080 Ubuntu 12.10: Radeon HD 6950: Processor: Intel Core i7-3770K @ 3.50GHz (8 Cores), Motherboard: ECS Z77H2-A2X v1.0, Chipset: Intel Xeon E3-1200 v2/3rd, Memory: 8192MB, Disk: 160GB INTEL SSDSA2M160, Graphics: Sapphire AMD Radeon HD 6950 2048MB, Audio: Realtek ALC892, Monitor: SE39UY04, Network: Realtek RTL8111/8168B + Intel Centrino Advanced-N 6205 OS: Ubuntu 12.10, Kernel: 3.5.0-44-generic (x86_64), Desktop: Unity 6.12.0, 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: 1920x1080 Ubuntu 14.04 Dev: Radeon HD 4890: Processor: Intel Core i7-3770K @ 3.50GHz (8 Cores), Motherboard: ECS Z77H2-A2X v1.0, Chipset: Intel Xeon E3-1200 v2/3rd, Memory: 8192MB, Disk: 160GB INTEL SSDSA2M160, Graphics: ASUS AMD Radeon HD 4890 1024MB, Audio: Realtek ALC892, Monitor: SE39UY04, Network: Realtek RTL8111/8168/8411 + Intel Centrino Advanced-N 6205 OS: Ubuntu 14.04, Kernel: 3.12.0-7-generic (x86_64), Desktop: Unity 7.1.2, Display Server: X Server 1.14.4, Display Driver: radeon 7.2.0, OpenGL: 3.1 Mesa 10.0.0 Gallium 0.4, Compiler: GCC 4.8, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 1920x1080 Ubuntu 14.04 Dev: Radeon HD 6950: Processor: Intel Core i7-3770K @ 3.50GHz (8 Cores), Motherboard: ECS Z77H2-A2X v1.0, Chipset: Intel Xeon E3-1200 v2/3rd, Memory: 8192MB, Disk: 160GB INTEL SSDSA2M160, Graphics: Sapphire AMD Radeon HD 6950 2048MB, Audio: Realtek ALC892, Monitor: SE39UY04, Network: Realtek RTL8111/8168/8411 + Intel Centrino Advanced-N 6205 OS: Ubuntu 14.04, Kernel: 3.12.0-7-generic (x86_64), Desktop: Unity 7.1.2, Display Server: X Server 1.14.4, Display Driver: radeon 7.2.0, OpenGL: 3.1 Mesa 10.0.0 Gallium 0.4, Compiler: GCC 4.8, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 1920x1080 Counter-Strike Source Resolution: 1024 x 768 Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better Ubuntu 12.10: Radeon HD 4890 ..... 29.23 |====== Ubuntu 12.10: Radeon HD 6950 ..... 10.90 |== Ubuntu 14.04 Dev: Radeon HD 4890 . 167.79 |==================================== Ubuntu 14.04 Dev: Radeon HD 6950 . 167.77 |==================================== Counter-Strike Source Resolution: 1920 x 1080 Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better Ubuntu 12.10: Radeon HD 4890 ..... 13.76 |=== Ubuntu 12.10: Radeon HD 6950 ..... 8.30 |== Ubuntu 14.04 Dev: Radeon HD 4890 . 155.08 |=================================== Ubuntu 14.04 Dev: Radeon HD 6950 . 159.10 |==================================== Doom 3 1.3.1 Resolution: 1920 x 1080 - Quality: High Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better Ubuntu 12.10: Radeon HD 6950 ..... 68.80 |======================= Ubuntu 14.04 Dev: Radeon HD 4890 . 107.17 |==================================== Ubuntu 14.04 Dev: Radeon HD 6950 . 104.43 |=================================== OpenArena 0.8.5 Resolution: 1920 x 1080 Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better Ubuntu 12.10: Radeon HD 4890 ..... 176.30 |=================== Ubuntu 12.10: Radeon HD 6950 ..... 181.53 |=================== Ubuntu 14.04 Dev: Radeon HD 4890 . 337.30 |==================================== Ubuntu 14.04 Dev: Radeon HD 6950 . 339.27 |==================================== OpenArena 0.8.8 Resolution: 1920 x 1080 Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better Ubuntu 12.10: Radeon HD 4890 ..... 14.30 |===== Ubuntu 12.10: Radeon HD 6950 ..... 14.30 |===== Ubuntu 14.04 Dev: Radeon HD 4890 . 84.00 |============================== Ubuntu 14.04 Dev: Radeon HD 6950 . 101.50 |==================================== OpenArena 0.8.8 Resolution: 1920 x 1080 - Total Frame Time Milliseconds < Lower Is Better Ubuntu 12.10: Radeon HD 4890 ..... MIN: 6 AVG: 47 MAX: 99 Ubuntu 12.10: Radeon HD 6950 ..... MIN: 5 AVG: 47 MAX: 99 Ubuntu 14.04 Dev: Radeon HD 4890 . MIN: 6 AVG: 12 MAX: 28 Ubuntu 14.04 Dev: Radeon HD 6950 . MIN: 5 AVG: 10 MAX: 26 World of Padman 1.2 Resolution: 1920 x 1080 Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better Ubuntu 12.10: Radeon HD 4890 ..... 113.33 |=============== Ubuntu 12.10: Radeon HD 6950 ..... 110.40 |=============== Ubuntu 14.04 Dev: Radeon HD 4890 . 264.97 |==================================== Ubuntu 14.04 Dev: Radeon HD 6950 . 263.00 |==================================== Prey 1.4.119 Resolution: 1920 x 1080 Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better Ubuntu 12.10: Radeon HD 4890 ..... 12.00 |=== Ubuntu 12.10: Radeon HD 6950 ..... 1.10 | Ubuntu 14.04 Dev: Radeon HD 4890 . 142.67 |============================== Ubuntu 14.04 Dev: Radeon HD 6950 . 171.33 |==================================== Reaction Quake 3 1.0 Beta Resolution: 1920 x 1080 Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better Ubuntu 12.10: Radeon HD 4890 ..... 2.80 | Ubuntu 12.10: Radeon HD 6950 ..... 2.60 | Ubuntu 14.04 Dev: Radeon HD 4890 . 239.87 |============================ Ubuntu 14.04 Dev: Radeon HD 6950 . 312.20 |==================================== Reaction Quake 3 1.0 Beta Resolution: 1920 x 1080 - Total Frame Time Milliseconds < Lower Is Better Ubuntu 14.04 Dev: Radeon HD 4890 . MIN: 1.0 AVG: 4.1 MAX: 21.0 Ubuntu 14.04 Dev: Radeon HD 6950 . MIN: 1.0 AVG: 3.2 MAX: 22.0 Urban Terror 4.2.013 Resolution: 1920 x 1080 Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better Ubuntu 12.10: Radeon HD 4890 ..... 26.72 |======== Ubuntu 12.10: Radeon HD 6950 ..... 24.12 |======== Ubuntu 14.04 Dev: Radeon HD 4890 . 114.70 |==================================== Ubuntu 14.04 Dev: Radeon HD 6950 . 112.17 |=================================== Urban Terror 4.2.013 Resolution: 1920 x 1080 - Total Frame Time Milliseconds < Lower Is Better Ubuntu 12.10: Radeon HD 4890 ..... MIN: 42 AVG: 76 MAX: 99 Ubuntu 12.10: Radeon HD 6950 ..... MIN: 16 AVG: 75 MAX: 99 Ubuntu 14.04 Dev: Radeon HD 4890 . MIN: 1 AVG: 9 MAX: 21 Ubuntu 14.04 Dev: Radeon HD 6950 . MIN: 1 AVG: 9 MAX: 23 Warsow 1.0 Resolution: 1920 x 1080 Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better Ubuntu 12.10: Radeon HD 4890 ..... 10.67 |== Ubuntu 12.10: Radeon HD 6950 ..... 11.87 |== Ubuntu 14.04 Dev: Radeon HD 4890 . 108.77 |==================== Ubuntu 14.04 Dev: Radeon HD 6950 . 191.13 |==================================== Xonotic 0.7 Resolution: 1920 x 1080 - Effects Quality: Low Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better Ubuntu 12.10: Radeon HD 4890 ..... 7.93 |= Ubuntu 12.10: Radeon HD 6950 ..... 93.44 |============== Ubuntu 14.04 Dev: Radeon HD 4890 . 236.22 |==================================== Ubuntu 14.04 Dev: Radeon HD 6950 . 232.20 |=================================== Xonotic 0.7 Resolution: 1920 x 1080 - Effects Quality: High Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better Ubuntu 12.10: Radeon HD 4890 ..... 7.41 |== Ubuntu 12.10: Radeon HD 6950 ..... 6.50 |== Ubuntu 14.04 Dev: Radeon HD 4890 . 132.00 |================================ Ubuntu 14.04 Dev: Radeon HD 6950 . 149.23 |==================================== Xonotic 0.7 Resolution: 1920 x 1080 - Effects Quality: Ultra Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better Ubuntu 12.10: Radeon HD 4890 ..... 4.22 |= Ubuntu 12.10: Radeon HD 6950 ..... 5.91 |== Ubuntu 14.04 Dev: Radeon HD 4890 . 101.84 |============================ Ubuntu 14.04 Dev: Radeon HD 6950 . 132.06 |==================================== GpuTest 0.6.0 Test: Plot3D - Resolution: 1920 x 1080 Points > Higher Is Better Ubuntu 12.10: Radeon HD 4890 ..... 10171 |============= Ubuntu 12.10: Radeon HD 6950 ..... 24937 |=============================== Ubuntu 14.04 Dev: Radeon HD 4890 . 10686 |============= Ubuntu 14.04 Dev: Radeon HD 6950 . 29474 |===================================== GpuTest 0.6.0 Test: Furmark - Resolution: 1920 x 1080 Points > Higher Is Better Ubuntu 12.10: Radeon HD 4890 ..... 736 |============ Ubuntu 12.10: Radeon HD 6950 ..... 1133 |=================== Ubuntu 14.04 Dev: Radeon HD 4890 . 1170 |==================== Ubuntu 14.04 Dev: Radeon HD 6950 . 2279 |====================================== GpuTest 0.6.0 Test: Triangle - Resolution: 1920 x 1080 Points > Higher Is Better Ubuntu 12.10: Radeon HD 4890 ..... 63893 |================ Ubuntu 12.10: Radeon HD 6950 ..... 70054 |================= Ubuntu 14.04 Dev: Radeon HD 4890 . 89433 |====================== Ubuntu 14.04 Dev: Radeon HD 6950 . 146463 |==================================== GpuTest 0.6.0 Test: Pixmark Piano - Resolution: 1920 x 1080 Points > Higher Is Better Ubuntu 12.10: Radeon HD 4890 ..... 73750 |================== Ubuntu 12.10: Radeon HD 6950 ..... 75131 |================== Ubuntu 14.04 Dev: Radeon HD 4890 . 81029 |==================== Ubuntu 14.04 Dev: Radeon HD 6950 . 146815 |==================================== GpuTest 0.6.0 Test: Pixmark Volplosion - Resolution: 1920 x 1080 Points > Higher Is Better Ubuntu 12.10: Radeon HD 4890 ..... 73726 |================== Ubuntu 12.10: Radeon HD 6950 ..... 75046 |================== Ubuntu 14.04 Dev: Radeon HD 4890 . 81027 |==================== Ubuntu 14.04 Dev: Radeon HD 6950 . 147051 |====================================