UHD 4K Linux Catalyst vs. RadeonSI AMD Performance RadeonSI Gallium3D graphics testing on Linux 3.17 kernel with Ubuntu of different AMD graphics cards running at HDMI 4K resolution compared to proprietary AMD Catalyst Linux driver. Benchmarks by Michael Larabel for a future article on Phoronix.com. The HD 7850 was left out due to apparent re-clocking / performance issues with RadeonSI while the Radeon HD 7950 was left out since under the Catalyst driver tested there was frequent flickering / mode-setting issues at 3840 x 2160.
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Processor Motherboard Chipset Memory Disk Graphics Audio Monitor Network OS Kernel Desktop Display Server Display Driver OpenGL Compiler File-System Screen Resolution RadeonSI Catalyst Radeon R7 260X Radeon R9 270X Radeon R9 290 Radeon R7 260X Radeon R9 270X Radeon R9 290 Intel Core i7-5960X @ 3.50GHz (16 Cores) Gigabyte X99-UD4-CF Intel Haswell-E DMI2 16384MB 128GB Crucial_CT128MX1 Sapphire AMD Radeon R7 260X 2048MB Intel Wellsburg HD Audio SE39UY04 Intel Connection Ubuntu 14.10 3.17.0-999-generic (x86_64) Unity 7.3.1 X Server 1.15.1 radeon 7.4.0 3.3 Mesa 10.4.0-devel (git-82edcb9 2014-09-11 utopic-oibaf-ppa) Gallium 0.4 GCC 4.9.1 ext4 3840x2160 Gigabyte AMD Radeon R9 270X 2048MB XFX AMD Radeon R9 290 4096MB Sapphire AMD Radeon R7 200 2048MB 3.16.0-14-generic (x86_64) fglrx 14.20.7 4.4.12968 Gigabyte AMD Radeon R9 200 2048MB XFX AMD Radeon R9 200 4096MB OpenBenchmarking.org Processor Details - Scaling Governor: intel_pstate powersave Graphics Details - RadeonSI: Radeon R7 260X, RadeonSI: Radeon R9 270X, RadeonSI: Radeon R9 290: GLAMOR Environment Details - Catalyst: Radeon R7 260X, Catalyst: Radeon R9 270X, Catalyst: Radeon R9 290: LIBGL_DRIVERS_PATH=/usr/lib/fglrx/dri:/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/dri:/usr/lib/dri:/usr/lib32/fglrx/dri:/usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/dri
tesseract: 3840 x 2160 warsow: 3840 x 2160 xonotic: 3840 x 2160 - High xonotic: 3840 x 2160 - Ultra xonotic: 3840 x 2160 - Ultimate unigine-tropics: 3840 x 2160 unigine-valley: 3840 x 2160 RadeonSI Catalyst Radeon R7 260X Radeon R9 270X Radeon R9 290 Radeon R7 260X Radeon R9 270X Radeon R9 290 38.33 72.80 76.54 62.90 45.14 21.93 55.57 102.97 103.74 82.75 56.99 33.39 21.26 43.68 32.50 30.10 25.86 10.09 62.42 82.90 103.90 90.36 68.07 32.71 7.34 87.35 108.60 145.17 124.28 90.92 50.86 10.91 109.12 136.37 170.60 148.55 111.76 71.86 17.77 OpenBenchmarking.org
Tesseract Resolution: 3840 x 2160 RadeonSI Catalyst OpenBenchmarking.org Frames Per Second, More Is Better Tesseract 2014-05-12 Resolution: 3840 x 2160 Radeon R7 260X Radeon R9 270X Radeon R9 290 20 40 60 80 100 SE +/- 0.14, N = 3 SE +/- 0.08, N = 3 SE +/- 0.03, N = 3 SE +/- 0.16, N = 3 SE +/- 1.23, N = 3 SE +/- 1.58, N = 6 38.33 55.57 21.26 62.42 87.35 109.12
Warsow Resolution: 3840 x 2160 RadeonSI Catalyst OpenBenchmarking.org Frames Per Second, More Is Better Warsow 1.51 Resolution: 3840 x 2160 Radeon R7 260X Radeon R9 270X Radeon R9 290 30 60 90 120 150 SE +/- 1.35, N = 3 SE +/- 1.33, N = 3 SE +/- 1.01, N = 6 SE +/- 0.15, N = 3 SE +/- 0.35, N = 3 SE +/- 0.03, N = 3 72.80 102.97 43.68 82.90 108.60 136.37
Xonotic Resolution: 3840 x 2160 - Effects Quality: High RadeonSI Catalyst OpenBenchmarking.org Frames Per Second, More Is Better Xonotic 0.7 Resolution: 3840 x 2160 - Effects Quality: High Radeon R7 260X Radeon R9 270X Radeon R9 290 40 80 120 160 200 SE +/- 0.39, N = 3 SE +/- 0.35, N = 3 SE +/- 0.03, N = 3 SE +/- 0.37, N = 3 SE +/- 0.34, N = 3 SE +/- 0.44, N = 3 76.54 103.74 32.50 103.90 145.17 170.60
Xonotic Resolution: 3840 x 2160 - Effects Quality: Ultra RadeonSI Catalyst OpenBenchmarking.org Frames Per Second, More Is Better Xonotic 0.7 Resolution: 3840 x 2160 - Effects Quality: Ultra Radeon R7 260X Radeon R9 270X Radeon R9 290 30 60 90 120 150 SE +/- 0.21, N = 3 SE +/- 0.15, N = 3 SE +/- 0.08, N = 3 SE +/- 0.16, N = 3 SE +/- 0.42, N = 3 SE +/- 0.77, N = 3 62.90 82.75 30.10 90.36 124.28 148.55
Xonotic Resolution: 3840 x 2160 - Effects Quality: Ultimate RadeonSI Catalyst OpenBenchmarking.org Frames Per Second, More Is Better Xonotic 0.7 Resolution: 3840 x 2160 - Effects Quality: Ultimate Radeon R7 260X Radeon R9 270X Radeon R9 290 30 60 90 120 150 SE +/- 0.72, N = 4 SE +/- 0.78, N = 6 SE +/- 0.23, N = 3 SE +/- 0.15, N = 3 SE +/- 0.36, N = 3 SE +/- 0.15, N = 3 45.14 56.99 25.86 68.07 90.92 111.76
Unigine Tropics Resolution: 3840 x 2160 RadeonSI Catalyst OpenBenchmarking.org Frames Per Second, More Is Better Unigine Tropics 1.3 Resolution: 3840 x 2160 Radeon R7 260X Radeon R9 270X Radeon R9 290 16 32 48 64 80 SE +/- 0.01, N = 3 SE +/- 0.01, N = 3 SE +/- 0.00, N = 3 SE +/- 0.08, N = 3 SE +/- 0.00, N = 3 SE +/- 0.03, N = 3 21.93 33.39 10.09 32.71 50.86 71.86
Unigine Valley Resolution: 3840 x 2160 OpenBenchmarking.org Frames Per Second, More Is Better Unigine Valley 1.0 Resolution: 3840 x 2160 Radeon R7 260X Radeon R9 270X Radeon R9 290 4 8 12 16 20 SE +/- 0.03, N = 3 SE +/- 0.11, N = 3 SE +/- 0.01, N = 3 7.34 10.91 17.77
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