Ubuntu 14.04 vs. 13.10 vs. 13.04 vs. 12.10 Radeon AMD Opteron 2384 testing with a TYAN S2927/S2927-E and AMD Radeon HD 4870 512MB testing of Ubuntu 14.04 LTS for a future article by Michael Larabel. Testing various Ubuntu releases. Ubuntu 14.04: 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: AMD RV770 HDMI Audio, Monitor: DELL S2409W OS: Ubuntu 14.04, Kernel: 3.13.0-13-generic (x86_64), Desktop: Unity 7.1.2, Display Server: X Server 1.15.0, Display Driver: radeon 7.3.0, OpenGL: 3.1 Mesa 10.1.0-rc1 Gallium 0.4, Compiler: GCC 4.8, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 1920x1080 Ubuntu 13.10: 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: AMD RV770 HDMI Audio, Monitor: DELL S2409W OS: Ubuntu 13.10, Kernel: 3.11.0-12-generic (x86_64), Desktop: Unity 7.1.2, 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: 1920x1080 Ubuntu 13.04: 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: AMD ATI RV770 HDMI Audio, Monitor: DELL S2409W OS: Ubuntu 13.04, Kernel: 3.8.0-19-generic (x86_64), Desktop: Unity 7.0.0, Display Server: X Server 1.13.3, Display Driver: radeon 7.1.0, OpenGL: 3.0 Mesa 9.1.7 Gallium 0.4, Compiler: GCC 4.7, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 1920x1080 Ubuntu 12.10: 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, Audio: AMD ATI RV770 HDMI Audio, Monitor: DELL S2409W OS: Ubuntu 12.10, Kernel: 3.5.0-17-generic (x86_64), Desktop: Unity 6.8.0, 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 Nexuiz 2.5.2 Resolution: 1920 x 1080 - HDR: Yes - Sound: Off Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better Ubuntu 14.04 . 53.58 |===================================================== Ubuntu 13.10 . 57.16 |========================================================= Ubuntu 13.04 . 53.35 |===================================================== Ubuntu 12.10 . 26.18 |========================== OpenArena 0.8.5 Resolution: 1920 x 1080 Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better Ubuntu 14.04 . 216.93 |======================================================== Ubuntu 13.10 . 188.40 |================================================= Ubuntu 13.04 . 162.37 |========================================== Ubuntu 12.10 . 92.50 |======================== OpenArena 0.8.8 Resolution: 1280 x 1024 Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better Ubuntu 14.04 . 92.27 |========================================================= Ubuntu 13.10 . 90.48 |======================================================== Ubuntu 13.04 . 30.25 |=================== Ubuntu 12.10 . 26.60 |================ OpenArena 0.8.8 Resolution: 1280 x 1024 - Total Frame Time Milliseconds < Lower Is Better Ubuntu 14.04 . MIN: 5 AVG: 11 MAX: 26 Ubuntu 13.10 . MIN: 5 AVG: 11 MAX: 31 Ubuntu 13.04 . MIN: 5 AVG: 32 MAX: 99 Ubuntu 12.10 . MIN: 3 AVG: 37 MAX: 99 Reaction Quake 3 1.0 Beta Resolution: 1920 x 1080 Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better Ubuntu 14.04 . 162.03 |======================================================== Ubuntu 13.10 . 100.10 |=================================== Ubuntu 13.04 . 50.83 |================== Ubuntu 12.10 . 9.50 |=== Reaction Quake 3 1.0 Beta Resolution: 1920 x 1080 - Total Frame Time Milliseconds < Lower Is Better Ubuntu 14.04 . MIN: 3 AVG: 6 MAX: 29 Ubuntu 13.10 . MIN: 5 AVG: 10 MAX: 32 Ubuntu 13.04 . MIN: 9 AVG: 20 MAX: 37 Ubuntu 12.10 . MIN: 84 AVG: 93 MAX: 99 Urban Terror 4.2.013 Resolution: 1920 x 1080 Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better Ubuntu 14.04 . 60.77 |======================================================= Ubuntu 13.10 . 62.67 |========================================================= Ubuntu 13.04 . 61.20 |======================================================== Ubuntu 12.10 . 29.40 |=========================== Urban Terror 4.2.013 Resolution: 1920 x 1080 - Total Frame Time Milliseconds < Lower Is Better Ubuntu 14.04 . MIN: 2.0 AVG: 16.7 MAX: 49.0 Ubuntu 13.10 . MIN: 2.0 AVG: 15.8 MAX: 46.0 Ubuntu 13.04 . MIN: 2.0 AVG: 16.3 MAX: 37.0 Ubuntu 12.10 . MIN: 7.0 AVG: 36.7 MAX: 76.0 Xonotic 0.7 Resolution: 1920 x 1080 - Effects Quality: Low Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better Ubuntu 14.04 . 152.15 |======================================================== Ubuntu 13.10 . 71.99 |========================== Ubuntu 13.04 . 147.61 |====================================================== Ubuntu 12.10 . 22.87 |======== Xonotic 0.7 Resolution: 1920 x 1080 - Effects Quality: High Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better Ubuntu 14.04 . 96.19 |========================================================= Ubuntu 13.10 . 52.14 |=============================== Ubuntu 13.04 . 80.74 |================================================ Ubuntu 12.10 . 12.69 |======== Xonotic 0.7 Resolution: 1920 x 1080 - Effects Quality: Ultra Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better Ubuntu 14.04 . 73.71 |========================================================= Ubuntu 13.10 . 47.06 |==================================== Ubuntu 13.04 . 60.00 |============================================== Ubuntu 12.10 . 11.91 |========= GpuTest 0.6.0 Test: Plot3D - Resolution: 1920 x 1080 Points > Higher Is Better Ubuntu 14.04 . 8984 |=================================================== Ubuntu 13.10 . 8967 |=================================================== Ubuntu 13.04 . 10069 |========================================================= Ubuntu 12.10 . 6937 |======================================= GpuTest 0.6.0 Test: Furmark - Resolution: 1920 x 1080 Points > Higher Is Better Ubuntu 14.04 . 989 |=========================================================== Ubuntu 13.10 . 594 |=================================== Ubuntu 13.04 . 641 |====================================== Ubuntu 12.10 . 637 |====================================== GpuTest 0.6.0 Test: Triangle - Resolution: 1920 x 1080 Points > Higher Is Better Ubuntu 14.04 . 79068 |====================================================== Ubuntu 13.10 . 78953 |====================================================== Ubuntu 13.04 . 83251 |========================================================= Ubuntu 12.10 . 29351 |==================== GpuTest 0.6.0 Test: Pixmark Piano - Resolution: 1920 x 1080 Points > Higher Is Better Ubuntu 14.04 . 21620 |============= Ubuntu 13.10 . 72559 |=========================================== Ubuntu 13.04 . 96028 |========================================================= Ubuntu 12.10 . 31560 |=================== GpuTest 0.6.0 Test: Pixmark Volplosion - Resolution: 1920 x 1080 Points > Higher Is Better Ubuntu 14.04 . 14771 |========= Ubuntu 13.10 . 72653 |=========================================== Ubuntu 13.04 . 95949 |========================================================= Ubuntu 12.10 . 31577 |===================