radeon dri2 vs dri3 A Graphics comparison via the Phoronix Test Suite. 7790 dri2: Processor: Intel Core i5-3330 @ 3.20GHz (4 Cores), Motherboard: ASRock H61M-ITX, Chipset: Intel Xeon E3-1200 v2/3rd, Memory: 8192MB, Disk: 160GB SAMSUNG HD161HJ + 60GB SPCC Solid State + 320GB SAMSUNG HD321KJ, Graphics: MSI AMD Radeon HD 7790/8770 / R9 260 OEM 2048MB, Audio: Intel 6 /C200, Monitor: H225W, Network: Realtek RTL8111/8168/8411 OS: openSUSE 20141029, Kernel: 3.18.0-rc2-3-desktop (x86_64), Desktop: KDE 4.14.2, Display Server: X Server 1.16.99.901 (1.17.0 RC 1), Display Driver: radeon 7.5.99, OpenGL: 3.3 Mesa 10.4.0-devel (git-f058c6b pontostroy:X11) Gallium 0.4, Compiler: GCC 4.8.3 + Clang 3.6.0 + LLVM 3.6.0svn, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 1920x1080 7790 dri3: Processor: Intel Core i5-3330 @ 3.20GHz (4 Cores), Motherboard: ASRock H61M-ITX, Chipset: Intel Xeon E3-1200 v2/3rd, Memory: 8192MB, Disk: 160GB SAMSUNG HD161HJ + 60GB SPCC Solid State + 320GB SAMSUNG HD321KJ, Graphics: MSI AMD Radeon HD 7790/8770 / R9 260 OEM 2048MB, Audio: Intel 6 /C200, Monitor: H225W, Network: Realtek RTL8111/8168/8411 OS: openSUSE 20141029, Kernel: 3.18.0-rc2-3-desktop (x86_64), Desktop: KDE 4.14.2, Display Server: X Server 1.16.99.901 (1.17.0 RC 1), Display Driver: radeon 7.5.99, OpenGL: 3.3 Mesa 10.4.0-devel (git-f058c6b pontostroy:X11) Gallium 0.4, Compiler: GCC 4.8.3 + Clang 3.6.0 + LLVM 3.6.0svn, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 1920x1080 6770 dri3: Processor: Intel Core i5-3330 @ 3.20GHz (4 Cores), Motherboard: ASRock H61M-ITX, Chipset: Intel Xeon E3-1200 v2/3rd, Memory: 8192MB, Disk: 160GB SAMSUNG HD161HJ + 60GB SPCC Solid State + 320GB SAMSUNG HD321KJ, Graphics: ASUS AMD Radeon HD 6770 1024MB, Audio: Intel 6 /C200, Monitor: H225W, Network: Realtek RTL8111/8168/8411 OS: openSUSE 20141029, Kernel: 3.18.0-rc2-3-desktop (x86_64), Desktop: KDE 4.14.2, Display Server: X Server 1.16.99.901 (1.17.0 RC 1), Display Driver: radeon 7.5.99, OpenGL: 3.3 Mesa 10.4.0-devel (git-f058c6b pontostroy:X11) Gallium 0.4, Compiler: GCC 4.8.3 + Clang 3.6.0 + LLVM 3.6.0svn, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 1920x1080 6770 dri2: Processor: Intel Core i5-3330 @ 3.20GHz (4 Cores), Motherboard: ASRock H61M-ITX, Chipset: Intel Xeon E3-1200 v2/3rd, Memory: 8192MB, Disk: 160GB SAMSUNG HD161HJ + 60GB SPCC Solid State + 320GB SAMSUNG HD321KJ, Graphics: ASUS AMD Radeon HD 6770 1024MB, Audio: Intel 6 /C200, Monitor: H225W, Network: Realtek RTL8111/8168/8411 OS: openSUSE 20141029, Kernel: 3.18.0-rc2-3-desktop (x86_64), Desktop: KDE 4.14.2, Display Server: X Server 1.16.99.901 (1.17.0 RC 1), Display Driver: radeon 7.5.99, OpenGL: 3.3 Mesa 10.4.0-devel (git-f058c6b pontostroy:X11) Gallium 0.4, Compiler: GCC 4.8.3 + Clang 3.6.0 + LLVM 3.6.0svn, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 1920x1080 QGears2 Rendering: OpenGL - Test: Text Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better 7790 dri2 . 389.17 |========================================================== 7790 dri3 . 239.06 |==================================== 6770 dri3 . 240.08 |==================================== 6770 dri2 . 394.01 |=========================================================== QGears2 Rendering: OpenGL - Test: Gears Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better 7790 dri2 . 501.91 |=================================================== 7790 dri3 . 300.02 |=============================== 6770 dri3 . 345.54 |=================================== 6770 dri2 . 576.63 |=========================================================== QGears2 Rendering: OpenGL - Test: Image Scaling Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better 7790 dri2 . 4976.47 |============================================== 7790 dri3 . 4159.56 |======================================= 6770 dri3 . 4696.87 |============================================ 6770 dri2 . 6218.00 |========================================================== QGears2 Rendering: XRender Extension - Test: Text Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better 7790 dri2 . 235.31 |=========================================================== 7790 dri3 . 236.03 |=========================================================== 6770 dri3 . 224.36 |======================================================== 6770 dri2 . 224.07 |======================================================== QGears2 Rendering: XRender Extension - Test: Gears Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better 7790 dri2 . 176.67 |=========================================================== 7790 dri3 . 177.83 |=========================================================== 6770 dri3 . 171.65 |========================================================= 6770 dri2 . 171.38 |========================================================= QGears2 Rendering: XRender Extension - Test: Image Scaling Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better 7790 dri2 . 442.53 |=========================================================== 7790 dri3 . 440.33 |=========================================================== 6770 dri3 . 402.61 |====================================================== 6770 dri2 . 402.11 |====================================================== Lightsmark 2008 Resolution: 1920 x 1080 Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better 7790 dri2 . 468.11 |=========================================================== 7790 dri3 . 314.89 |======================================== 6770 dri3 . 314.38 |======================================== 6770 dri2 . 409.89 |==================================================== GpuTest 0.7.0 Test: Plot3D - Resolution: 1920 x 1080 Points > Higher Is Better 7790 dri2 . 38209 |============================================================ 7790 dri3 . 30630 |================================================ 6770 dri3 . 11620 |================== 6770 dri2 . 11219 |================== GpuTest 0.7.0 Test: Furmark - Resolution: 1920 x 1080 Points > Higher Is Better 7790 dri2 . 1679 |============================================================= 7790 dri3 . 1679 |============================================================= 6770 dri3 . 1145 |========================================== 6770 dri2 . 1145 |========================================== GpuTest 0.7.0 Test: Triangle - Resolution: 1920 x 1080 Points > Higher Is Better 7790 dri2 . 155894 |=========================================================== 7790 dri3 . 153233 |========================================================== 6770 dri3 . 138407 |==================================================== 6770 dri2 . 119993 |=============================================