Radeon vs. Nouveau Linux 4.4 Benchmarks of a few Nouveau vs. Radeon tests on the Linux 4.4 kernel. Benchmarks by Michael Larabel for a future article on Phoronix.com. GeForce GTX 650: 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: MSI NVIDIA GeForce GTX 650 1024MB (1084/5000MHz), Audio: Realtek ALC1150, Monitor: SyncMaster, Network: Intel Connection OS: Ubuntu 15.10, Kernel: 4.4.0-rc1-phoronix (x86_64) 20151118, Desktop: Unity, Display Server: X Server 1.17.2, Display Driver: nouveau 1.0.11, OpenGL: 4.1 Mesa 11.1.0-devel (padoka PPA) Gallium 0.4, Compiler: GCC 5.2.1 20151010, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 2560x1600 GeForce GTX 680: 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: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 680 2048MB (1202/6008MHz), Audio: Realtek ALC1150, Monitor: SyncMaster, Network: Intel Connection OS: Ubuntu 15.10, Kernel: 4.4.0-rc1-phoronix (x86_64) 20151118, Desktop: Unity, Display Server: X Server 1.17.2, Display Driver: nouveau 1.0.11, OpenGL: 4.1 Mesa 11.1.0-devel (padoka PPA) Gallium 0.4, Compiler: GCC 5.2.1 20151010, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 2560x1600 GeForce GTX 760: 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: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 760 2048MB (1202/6008MHz), Audio: Realtek ALC1150, Monitor: SyncMaster, Network: Intel Connection OS: Ubuntu 15.10, Kernel: 4.4.0-rc1-phoronix (x86_64) 20151118, Desktop: Unity, Display Server: X Server 1.17.2, Display Driver: nouveau 1.0.11, OpenGL: 4.1 Mesa 11.1.0-devel (padoka PPA) Gallium 0.4, Compiler: GCC 5.2.1 20151010, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 2560x1600 GeForce GTX 780 Ti: 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: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 780 Ti 3072MB (1202/7000MHz), Audio: Realtek ALC1150, Monitor: SyncMaster, Network: Intel Connection OS: Ubuntu 15.10, Kernel: 4.4.0-rc1-phoronix (x86_64) 20151118, Desktop: Unity, Display Server: X Server 1.17.2, Display Driver: nouveau 1.0.11, OpenGL: 4.1 Mesa 11.1.0-devel (padoka PPA) Gallium 0.4, Compiler: GCC 5.2.1 20151010, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 2560x1600 Radeon HD 6570: 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: Sapphire AMD Radeon HD 6570/7570/8550 512MB, Audio: Realtek ALC1150, Monitor: SyncMaster, Network: Intel Connection OS: Ubuntu 15.10, Kernel: 4.4.0-rc1-phoronix (x86_64) 20151118, Desktop: Unity, Display Server: X Server 1.17.2, Display Driver: radeon 7.6.99, OpenGL: 3.3 Mesa 11.1.0-devel (padoka PPA) Gallium 0.4, Compiler: GCC 5.2.1 20151010, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 2560x1600 Radeon HD 6870: 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: Sapphire AMD Radeon HD 6870 1024MB, Audio: Realtek ALC1150, Monitor: SyncMaster, Network: Intel Connection OS: Ubuntu 15.10, Kernel: 4.4.0-rc1-phoronix (x86_64) 20151118, Desktop: Unity, Display Server: X Server 1.17.2, Display Driver: radeon 7.6.99, OpenGL: 3.3 Mesa 11.1.0-devel (padoka PPA) Gallium 0.4, Compiler: GCC 5.2.1 20151010, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 2560x1600 Radeon HD 6950: 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: Sapphire AMD Radeon HD 6950 2048MB, Audio: Realtek ALC1150, Monitor: SyncMaster, Network: Intel Connection OS: Ubuntu 15.10, Kernel: 4.4.0-rc1-phoronix (x86_64) 20151118, Desktop: Unity, Display Server: X Server 1.17.2, Display Driver: radeon 7.6.99, OpenGL: 3.3 Mesa 11.1.0-devel (padoka PPA) Gallium 0.4, Compiler: GCC 5.2.1 20151010, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 2560x1600 Radeon 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: 4.4.0-rc1-phoronix (x86_64) 20151118, Desktop: Unity, Display Server: X Server 1.17.2, Display Driver: radeon 7.6.99, OpenGL: 4.1 Mesa 11.1.0-devel (padoka PPA) Gallium 0.4, Compiler: GCC 5.2.1 20151010, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 2560x1600 Radeon R7 370: 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: MSI AMD Radeon R7 370 / R9 270/370 OEM 4096MB, Audio: Realtek ALC1150, Monitor: SyncMaster, Network: Intel Connection OS: Ubuntu 15.10, Kernel: 4.4.0-rc1-phoronix (x86_64) 20151118, Desktop: Unity, Display Server: X Server 1.17.2, Display Driver: radeon 7.6.99, OpenGL: 4.1 Mesa 11.1.0-devel (padoka PPA) Gallium 0.4, Compiler: GCC 5.2.1 20151010, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 2560x1600 OpenArena 0.8.8 Resolution: 2560 x 1600 Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better GeForce GTX 650 .... 57.27 |================ GeForce GTX 680 .... 156.55 |============================================ GeForce GTX 760 .... 65.00 |================== GeForce GTX 780 Ti . 87.87 |======================== Radeon HD 6570 ..... 37.22 |========== Radeon HD 6870 ..... 97.47 |=========================== Radeon HD 6950 ..... 64.67 |================== Radeon R9 290 ...... 179.53 |================================================== Radeon R7 370 ...... 135.50 |====================================== OpenArena 0.8.8 Resolution: 2560 x 1600 - Total Frame Time Milliseconds < Lower Is Better GeForce GTX 650 .... MIN: 10.0 AVG: 17.4 MAX: 41.0 GeForce GTX 680 .... MIN: 2.0 AVG: 6.3 MAX: 57.0 GeForce GTX 760 .... MIN: 9.0 AVG: 15.2 MAX: 30.0 GeForce GTX 780 Ti . MIN: 6.0 AVG: 11.3 MAX: 68.0 Radeon HD 6570 ..... MIN: 4.0 AVG: 26.5 MAX: 62.0 Radeon HD 6870 ..... MIN: 3.0 AVG: 10.3 MAX: 23.0 Radeon HD 6950 ..... MIN: 3.0 AVG: 15.6 MAX: 36.0 Radeon R9 290 ...... MIN: 2.0 AVG: 5.6 MAX: 40.0 Radeon R7 370 ...... MIN: 2.0 AVG: 7.5 MAX: 33.0 Tesseract 2014-05-12 Resolution: 2560 x 1600 Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better GeForce GTX 650 .... 52.95 |================== GeForce GTX 680 .... 148.17 |================================================== GeForce GTX 760 .... 58.14 |==================== GeForce GTX 780 Ti . 82.25 |============================ Radeon HD 6570 ..... 30.63 |========== Radeon HD 6870 ..... 87.38 |============================= Radeon HD 6950 ..... 87.35 |============================= Radeon R9 290 ...... 141.67 |================================================ Radeon R7 370 ...... 113.39 |====================================== Unigine Valley 1.0 Resolution: 1920 x 1080 - Mode: Fullscreen Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better GeForce GTX 650 .... 21.26 |============= GeForce GTX 680 .... 69.36 |========================================= GeForce GTX 760 .... 21.45 |============= GeForce GTX 780 Ti . 30.51 |================== Radeon HD 6570 ..... 10.87 |====== Radeon HD 6870 ..... 39.30 |======================= Radeon HD 6950 ..... 46.42 |=========================== Radeon R9 290 ...... 86.70 |=================================================== Radeon R7 370 ...... 57.07 |================================== Xonotic 0.8 Resolution: 2560 x 1600 - Effects Quality: Ultra Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better GeForce GTX 650 .... 62.72 |================= GeForce GTX 680 .... 131.12 |=================================== GeForce GTX 760 .... 68.91 |================== GeForce GTX 780 Ti . 91.84 |========================= Radeon HD 6870 ..... 103.21 |============================ Radeon HD 6950 ..... 120.49 |================================ Radeon R9 290 ...... 186.57 |================================================== Radeon R7 370 ...... 151.34 |========================================= Xonotic 0.8 Resolution: 2560 x 1600 - Effects Quality: Ultimate Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better GeForce GTX 650 .... 43.68 |============== GeForce GTX 680 .... 99.01 |================================= GeForce GTX 760 .... 49.05 |================ GeForce GTX 780 Ti . 71.49 |======================== Radeon HD 6870 ..... 66.58 |====================== Radeon HD 6950 ..... 90.31 |============================== Radeon R9 290 ...... 150.85 |================================================== Radeon R7 370 ...... 115.46 |====================================== GpuTest 0.7.0 Test: Furmark - Resolution: 2560 x 1600 - Mode: Fullscreen Points > Higher Is Better GeForce GTX 650 .... 488 |========= GeForce GTX 680 .... 1888 |================================= GeForce GTX 760 .... 592 |========== GeForce GTX 780 Ti . 1108 |=================== Radeon HD 6870 ..... 1005 |================== Radeon HD 6950 ..... 1124 |==================== Radeon R9 290 ...... 2961 |==================================================== Radeon R7 370 ...... 1778 |=============================== GpuTest 0.7.0 Test: Triangle - Resolution: 2560 x 1600 - Mode: Fullscreen Points > Higher Is Better GeForce GTX 650 .... 52521 |================= GeForce GTX 680 .... 140368 |============================================ GeForce GTX 760 .... 59441 |=================== GeForce GTX 780 Ti . 64625 |==================== Radeon HD 6870 ..... 109767 |=================================== Radeon HD 6950 ..... 75208 |======================== Radeon R9 290 ...... 159024 |==================================================