Radeon Mesa Upgrade Intel Xeon E3-1280 v5 testing with a MSI C236A WORKSTATION (MS-7998) v1.0 and XFX AMD Radeon R9 290 4096MB on Ubuntu 16.04 via the Phoronix Test Suite. Mesa 11.2.0 Ubuntu: Processor: Intel Xeon E3-1280 v5 @ 4.00GHz (8 Cores), Motherboard: MSI C236A WORKSTATION (MS-7998) v1.0, Chipset: Intel Sky Lake, Memory: 16384MB, Disk: 120GB Samsung SSD 850, Graphics: XFX AMD Radeon R9 290 4096MB, Audio: Realtek ALC1150, Monitor: DELL P2415Q, Network: Intel Connection OS: Ubuntu 16.04, Kernel: 4.4.0-22-generic (x86_64), Desktop: Unity 7.4.0, Display Server: X Server 1.18.3, OpenGL: 4.1 Mesa 11.2.0 Gallium 0.4, Compiler: GCC 5.3.1 20160413, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 3840x2160 Mesa 11.3-devel: Processor: Intel Xeon E3-1280 v5 @ 4.00GHz (8 Cores), Motherboard: MSI C236A WORKSTATION (MS-7998) v1.0, Chipset: Intel Sky Lake, Memory: 16384MB, Disk: 120GB Samsung SSD 850, Graphics: XFX AMD Radeon R9 290 4096MB, Audio: Realtek ALC1150, Monitor: DELL P2415Q, Network: Intel Connection OS: Ubuntu 16.04, Kernel: 4.4.0-22-generic (x86_64), Desktop: Unity 7.4.0, Display Server: X Server 1.18.3, OpenGL: 4.2 Mesa 11.3.0-devel (padoka PPA) Gallium 0.4, Compiler: GCC 5.3.1 20160413, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 3840x2160 BioShock Infinite Resolution: 1920 x 1080 - Effects Quality: Ultra Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better Mesa 11.2.0 Ubuntu . 37.35 |=================================================== Mesa 11.3-devel .... 13.65 |=================== Counter-Strike: Global Offensive Resolution: 3840 x 2160 Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better Mesa 11.2.0 Ubuntu . 94.66 |================================================== Mesa 11.3-devel .... 96.63 |=================================================== DiRT Showdown Resolution: 1920 x 1080 - Graphics Preset: Ultra - Multi-Sampling: 4x MSAA Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better Mesa 11.2.0 Ubuntu . 88.78 |=================================================== Mesa 11.3-devel .... 13.08 |======== Tesseract 2014-05-12 Resolution: 3840 x 2160 Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better Mesa 11.2.0 Ubuntu . 111.06 |================================================== Mesa 11.3-devel .... 111.31 |================================================== Team Fortress 2 Resolution: 3840 x 2160 Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better Mesa 11.2.0 Ubuntu . 115.87 |================================================== Mesa 11.3-devel .... 113.07 |================================================= Unigine Valley 1.0 Resolution: 1920 x 1080 - Mode: Fullscreen Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better Mesa 11.2.0 Ubuntu . 64.30 |================================================= Mesa 11.3-devel .... 66.34 |=================================================== Xonotic 0.8 Resolution: 3840 x 2160 - Effects Quality: Ultra Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better Mesa 11.2.0 Ubuntu . 173.81 |================================================== Mesa 11.3-devel .... 172.94 |================================================== Xonotic 0.8 Resolution: 3840 x 2160 - Effects Quality: Ultimate Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better Mesa 11.2.0 Ubuntu . 130.03 |================================================= Mesa 11.3-devel .... 132.59 |==================================================