Ubuntu 15.10 Linux 4.3 Mesa 11.1 Radeon Linux AMD GPU
Radeon R9 290 benchmarks out-of-the-box on Ubuntu 15.04 vs. Ubuntu 15.10 followed up by Linux 4.3 + Mesa 11.1-devel Git.


Ubuntu 15.04 - R9 290: 

	Processor: Intel Core i7-5960X @ 3.50GHz (16 Cores), Motherboard: Gigabyte X99-UD4-CF, Chipset: Intel Xeon E5 v3/Core, Memory: 16384MB, Disk: 240GB OCZ VERTEX3, Graphics: XFX AMD Radeon R9 290 4096MB, Audio: Intel C610/X99, Monitor: SyncMaster, Network: Intel Connection

	OS: Ubuntu 15.04, Kernel: 3.19.0-30-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 10.5.9 Gallium 0.4, Compiler: GCC 4.9.2, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 2560x1600

Ubuntu 15.10 - R9 290: 

	Processor: Intel Core i7-5960X @ 3.50GHz (16 Cores), Motherboard: Gigabyte X99-UD4-CF, Chipset: Intel Xeon E7 v3/Xeon, Memory: 16384MB, Disk: 240GB OCZ VERTEX3, Graphics: XFX AMD Radeon R9 290 4096MB, Audio: Realtek ALC1150, Monitor: SyncMaster, Network: Intel Connection

	OS: Ubuntu 15.10, Kernel: 4.2.0-16-generic (x86_64), Desktop: Unity, Display Server: X Server 1.17.2, Display Driver: radeon 7.5.99, OpenGL: 3.3 Mesa 11.0.2 Gallium 0.4, Compiler: GCC 5.2.1 20151010, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 2560x1600

Linux 4.3 + Mesa 11.1-dev - R9 290: 

	Processor: Intel Core i7-5960X @ 3.50GHz (16 Cores), Motherboard: Gigabyte X99-UD4-CF, Chipset: Intel Xeon E7 v3/Xeon, Memory: 16384MB, Disk: 240GB OCZ VERTEX3, Graphics: XFX AMD Radeon R9 290 4096MB, Audio: Realtek ALC1150, Monitor: DELL P2415Q, Network: Intel Connection

	OS: Ubuntu 15.10, Kernel: 4.3.0-999-generic (x86_64) 20151018, Desktop: Unity, Display Server: X Server 1.17.2, Display Driver: radeon 7.5.99, OpenGL: 4.1 Mesa 11.1.0-devel (padoka PPA) Gallium 0.4, Compiler: GCC 5.2.1 20151010, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 3840x2160


Tesseract 2014-05-12
Resolution: 1920 x 1080
Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better
Ubuntu 15.04 - R9 290 .............. 163.97 |==================================
Ubuntu 15.10 - R9 290 .............. 107.91 |======================
Linux 4.3 + Mesa 11.1-dev - R9 290 . 156.64 |================================


Team Fortress 2
Resolution: 1920 x 1080
Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better
Ubuntu 15.04 - R9 290 .............. 70.68 |==================================
Ubuntu 15.10 - R9 290 .............. 65.53 |===============================
Linux 4.3 + Mesa 11.1-dev - R9 290 . 73.73 |===================================


Unigine Tropics 1.3
Resolution: 1920 x 1080 - Mode: Fullscreen
Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better
Ubuntu 15.04 - R9 290 .............. 134.70 |========================
Ubuntu 15.10 - R9 290 .............. 124.39 |======================
Linux 4.3 + Mesa 11.1-dev - R9 290 . 194.48 |==================================


Unigine Valley 1.0
Resolution: 1920 x 1080 - Mode: Fullscreen
Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better
Ubuntu 15.04 - R9 290 .............. 68.79 |===================================
Ubuntu 15.10 - R9 290 .............. 68.14 |===================================
Linux 4.3 + Mesa 11.1-dev - R9 290 . 57.62 |=============================


GpuTest 0.7.0
Test: Plot3D - Resolution: 1920 x 1080 - Mode: Fullscreen
Points > Higher Is Better
Ubuntu 15.04 - R9 290 .............. 41971 |===================================
Ubuntu 15.10 - R9 290 .............. 41918 |===================================
Linux 4.3 + Mesa 11.1-dev - R9 290 . 30712 |==========================


GpuTest 0.7.0
Test: Furmark - Resolution: 1920 x 1080 - Mode: Fullscreen
Points > Higher Is Better
Ubuntu 15.04 - R9 290 .............. 2889 |====================================
Ubuntu 15.10 - R9 290 .............. 2913 |====================================
Linux 4.3 + Mesa 11.1-dev - R9 290 . 1732 |=====================


GpuTest 0.7.0
Test: Triangle - Resolution: 1920 x 1080 - Mode: Fullscreen
Points > Higher Is Better
Ubuntu 15.04 - R9 290 .............. 144808 |==================================
Ubuntu 15.10 - R9 290 .............. 135561 |================================
Linux 4.3 + Mesa 11.1-dev - R9 290 . 76690  |==================


GpuTest 0.7.0
Test: Pixmark Piano - Resolution: 1920 x 1080 - Mode: Fullscreen
Points > Higher Is Better
Ubuntu 15.04 - R9 290 .............. 348 |===============================
Ubuntu 15.10 - R9 290 .............. 421 |=====================================
Linux 4.3 + Mesa 11.1-dev - R9 290 . 301 |==========================


GpuTest 0.7.0
Test: Pixmark Volplosion - Resolution: 1920 x 1080 - Mode: Fullscreen
Points > Higher Is Better
Ubuntu 15.04 - R9 290 .............. 1586 |====================================
Ubuntu 15.10 - R9 290 .............. 1502 |==================================
Linux 4.3 + Mesa 11.1-dev - R9 290 . 774  |==================