AMD Radeon R9 Ubuntu 15.04 - Gallium3D vs. Catalyst Benchmark comparison of Catalyst vs. RadeonSI Galliunm3D out-of-the-box on Ubuntu 15.04. Benchmarks by Michael Larabel for a future article. Radeon R9 290: RadeonSI Gallium3D: Processor: Intel Core i7-5960X @ 3.50GHz (16 Cores), Motherboard: Gigabyte X99-UD4-CF, Chipset: Intel Xeon E5 v3/Core, Memory: 16384MB, Disk: 120GB OCZ VECTOR150, Graphics: XFX AMD Radeon R9 290 4096MB, Audio: Intel C610/X99, Monitor: SyncMaster, Network: Intel Connection OS: Ubuntu 15.04, Kernel: 3.19.0-15-generic (x86_64), Desktop: Unity 7.3.2, Display Server: X Server 1.17.1, Display Driver: radeon 7.5.0, OpenGL: 3.3 Mesa 10.5.2 Gallium 0.4, Compiler: GCC 4.9.2, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 2560x1600 Radeon R9 270X: RadeonSI Gallium3D: Processor: Intel Core i7-5960X @ 3.50GHz (16 Cores), Motherboard: Gigabyte X99-UD4-CF, Chipset: Intel Xeon E5 v3/Core, Memory: 16384MB, Disk: 120GB OCZ VECTOR150, Graphics: Gigabyte AMD Radeon R9 270X 2048MB, Audio: Intel C610/X99, Monitor: SyncMaster, Network: Intel Connection OS: Ubuntu 15.04, Kernel: 3.19.0-15-generic (x86_64), Desktop: Unity 7.3.2, Display Server: X Server 1.17.1, Display Driver: radeon 7.5.0, OpenGL: 3.3 Mesa 10.5.2 Gallium 0.4, Compiler: GCC 4.9.2, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 2560x1600 Radeon R9 270X: Catalyst: Processor: Intel Core i7-5960X @ 3.50GHz (16 Cores), Motherboard: Gigabyte X99-UD4-CF, Chipset: Intel Xeon E5 v3/Core, Memory: 16384MB, Disk: 120GB OCZ VECTOR150, Graphics: Gigabyte AMD Radeon R9 200 2048MB (1100/1400MHz), Audio: Intel C610/X99, Monitor: SyncMaster, Network: Intel Connection OS: Ubuntu 15.04, Kernel: 3.19.0-15-generic (x86_64), Desktop: Unity 7.3.2, Display Server: X Server 1.17.1, Display Driver: fglrx 15.20.2, OpenGL: 4.4.13374, Compiler: GCC 4.9.2, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 2560x1600 Radeon R9 290: Catalyst: Processor: Intel Core i7-5960X @ 3.50GHz (16 Cores), Motherboard: Gigabyte X99-UD4-CF, Chipset: Intel Xeon E5 v3/Core, Memory: 16384MB, Disk: 120GB OCZ VECTOR150, Graphics: XFX AMD Radeon R9 200 4096MB (947/1250MHz), Audio: Intel C610/X99, Monitor: SyncMaster, Network: Intel Connection OS: Ubuntu 15.04, Kernel: 3.19.0-15-generic (x86_64), Desktop: Unity 7.3.2, Display Server: X Server 1.17.1, Display Driver: fglrx 15.20.2, OpenGL: 4.4.13374, Compiler: GCC 4.9.2, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 2560x1600 OpenArena 0.8.8 Resolution: 2560 x 1600 Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better Radeon R9 290: RadeonSI Gallium3D .. 157.63 |===================== Radeon R9 270X: RadeonSI Gallium3D . 123.73 |================ Radeon R9 270X: Catalyst ........... 159.50 |===================== Radeon R9 290: Catalyst ............ 258.80 |================================== OpenArena 0.8.8 Resolution: 2560 x 1600 - Total Frame Time Milliseconds < Lower Is Better Radeon R9 290: RadeonSI Gallium3D .. MIN: 2.0 AVG: 6.2 MAX: 17.0 Radeon R9 270X: RadeonSI Gallium3D . MIN: 3.0 AVG: 7.9 MAX: 30.0 Radeon R9 270X: Catalyst ........... MIN: 1.0 AVG: 6.3 MAX: 45.0 Radeon R9 290: Catalyst ............ MIN: 1.0 AVG: 3.9 MAX: 45.0 SuperTuxKart 0.9 Resolution: 2560 x 1600 Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better Radeon R9 290: RadeonSI Gallium3D .. 74.25 |=================================== Radeon R9 270X: RadeonSI Gallium3D . 64.51 |============================== Radeon R9 270X: Catalyst ........... 43.82 |===================== Radeon R9 290: Catalyst ............ 46.45 |====================== Tesseract 2014-05-12 Resolution: 2560 x 1600 Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better Radeon R9 290: RadeonSI Gallium3D .. 143.68 |=========================== Radeon R9 270X: RadeonSI Gallium3D . 108.07 |==================== Radeon R9 270X: Catalyst ........... 129.71 |======================== Radeon R9 290: Catalyst ............ 181.20 |================================== Unigine Heaven 4.0 Resolution: 1920 x 1080 - Mode: Fullscreen Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better Radeon R9 290: RadeonSI Gallium3D .. 74.01 |=================================== Radeon R9 270X: RadeonSI Gallium3D . 51.47 |======================== Unigine Tropics 1.3 Resolution: 1920 x 1080 - Mode: Fullscreen Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better Radeon R9 290: RadeonSI Gallium3D .. 135.71 |======================= Radeon R9 270X: RadeonSI Gallium3D . 97.74 |================ Radeon R9 270X: Catalyst ........... 134.54 |======================= Radeon R9 290: Catalyst ............ 202.96 |================================== Warsow 1.51 Resolution: 2560 x 1600 Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better Radeon R9 290: RadeonSI Gallium3D .. 193.83 |=============================== Radeon R9 270X: RadeonSI Gallium3D . 126.53 |==================== Radeon R9 270X: Catalyst ........... 152.03 |======================== Radeon R9 290: Catalyst ............ 215.60 |================================== Xonotic 0.8 Resolution: 2560 x 1600 - Effects Quality: Low Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better Radeon R9 290: RadeonSI Gallium3D .. 240.52 |=============================== Radeon R9 270X: RadeonSI Gallium3D . 238.00 |=============================== Radeon R9 270X: Catalyst ........... 262.21 |================================== Radeon R9 290: Catalyst ............ 259.19 |================================== Xonotic 0.8 Resolution: 2560 x 1600 - Effects Quality: High Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better Radeon R9 290: RadeonSI Gallium3D .. 188.05 |============================== Radeon R9 270X: RadeonSI Gallium3D . 169.16 |=========================== Radeon R9 270X: Catalyst ........... 212.21 |================================== Radeon R9 290: Catalyst ............ 206.01 |================================= Xonotic 0.8 Resolution: 2560 x 1600 - Effects Quality: Ultra Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better Radeon R9 290: RadeonSI Gallium3D .. 164.92 |=============================== Radeon R9 270X: RadeonSI Gallium3D . 137.86 |========================== Radeon R9 270X: Catalyst ........... 180.56 |================================== Radeon R9 290: Catalyst ............ 181.82 |================================== Xonotic 0.8 Resolution: 2560 x 1600 - Effects Quality: Ultimate Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better Radeon R9 290: RadeonSI Gallium3D .. 127.27 |============================= Radeon R9 270X: RadeonSI Gallium3D . 104.07 |======================== Radeon R9 270X: Catalyst ........... 144.09 |================================= Radeon R9 290: Catalyst ............ 147.48 |================================== GpuTest 0.7.0 Test: Plot3D - Resolution: 2560 x 1600 Points > Higher Is Better Radeon R9 290: RadeonSI Gallium3D .. 43016 |================== Radeon R9 270X: RadeonSI Gallium3D . 42080 |================== Radeon R9 270X: Catalyst ........... 56603 |======================== Radeon R9 290: Catalyst ............ 81410 |=================================== GpuTest 0.7.0 Test: Furmark - Resolution: 2560 x 1600 Points > Higher Is Better Radeon R9 290: RadeonSI Gallium3D .. 2905 |================================ Radeon R9 270X: RadeonSI Gallium3D . 1913 |===================== Radeon R9 270X: Catalyst ........... 2217 |========================= Radeon R9 290: Catalyst ............ 3229 |==================================== GpuTest 0.7.0 Test: Triangle - Resolution: 2560 x 1600 Points > Higher Is Better Radeon R9 290: RadeonSI Gallium3D .. 152242 |============ Radeon R9 270X: RadeonSI Gallium3D . 144233 |=========== Radeon R9 270X: Catalyst ........... 323239 |========================= Radeon R9 290: Catalyst ............ 438595 |================================== GpuTest 0.7.0 Test: Pixmark Piano - Resolution: 2560 x 1600 Points > Higher Is Better Radeon R9 290: RadeonSI Gallium3D .. 349 |========================== Radeon R9 270X: RadeonSI Gallium3D . 192 |=============== Radeon R9 270X: Catalyst ........... 279 |===================== Radeon R9 290: Catalyst ............ 489 |=====================================