AMD 1080p Mesa vs. AMDGPU-PRO Linux Comparison Many AMD Radeon benchmarks by Michael Larabel for a future article on Phoronix.com, including AMDGPU-PRO hybrid stack. Mesa 11.3 RadeonSI: R9 285: 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 285/380 2048MB, Audio: Realtek ALC1150, Monitor: DELL P2415Q, Network: Intel Connection OS: Ubuntu 16.04, Kernel: 4.6.0-040600-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: 1920x1080 Mesa 11.3 RadeonSI: R9 290: 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: 4.6.0-040600-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: 1920x1080 Mesa 11.3 RadeonSI: R9 Fury: 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: Sapphire AMD Radeon R9 FURY / NANO 4096MB, Audio: Realtek ALC1150, Monitor: DELL P2415Q, Network: Intel Connection OS: Ubuntu 16.04, Kernel: 4.6.0-040600-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: 1920x1080 AMDGPU-PRO: R9 Fury: 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: Sapphire AMD Radeon R9 Fury 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: 4.5.13439, OpenCL: OpenCL 2.0 AMD-APP (2079.3), Compiler: GCC 5.3.1 20160413, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 1920x1080 AMDGPU-PRO: R9 285: 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 200 2048MB, 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: 4.5.13439, OpenCL: OpenCL 2.0 AMD-APP (2079.3), Compiler: GCC 5.3.1 20160413, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 1920x1080 AMDGPU-PRO: R9 290: 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 200 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: 4.5.13439, OpenCL: OpenCL 2.0 AMD-APP (2079.3), Compiler: GCC 5.3.1 20160413, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 1920x1080 BioShock Infinite Resolution: 1920 x 1080 - Effects Quality: Ultra Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better Mesa 11.3 RadeonSI: R9 285 .. 7.20 |==== Mesa 11.3 RadeonSI: R9 290 .. 13.87 |======= Mesa 11.3 RadeonSI: R9 Fury . 14.93 |======= AMDGPU-PRO: R9 Fury ......... 85.04 |========================================== AMDGPU-PRO: R9 285 .......... 66.30 |================================= AMDGPU-PRO: R9 290 .......... 77.85 |====================================== Counter-Strike: Global Offensive Resolution: 1920 x 1080 Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better Mesa 11.3 RadeonSI: R9 285 .. 140.62 |=============================== Mesa 11.3 RadeonSI: R9 290 .. 150.62 |================================= Mesa 11.3 RadeonSI: R9 Fury . 145.03 |================================ AMDGPU-PRO: R9 Fury ......... 185.99 |========================================= AMDGPU-PRO: R9 285 .......... 163.32 |==================================== AMDGPU-PRO: R9 290 .......... 183.45 |======================================== DiRT Showdown Resolution: 1920 x 1080 - Graphics Preset: Ultra - Multi-Sampling: 8x MSAA Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better Mesa 11.3 RadeonSI: R9 285 .. 13.07 |====== Mesa 11.3 RadeonSI: R9 290 .. 13.08 |====== Mesa 11.3 RadeonSI: R9 Fury . 13.09 |====== AMDGPU-PRO: R9 Fury ......... 98.33 |========================================== AMDGPU-PRO: R9 285 .......... 93.72 |======================================== AMDGPU-PRO: R9 290 .......... 98.31 |========================================== Team Fortress 2 Resolution: 1920 x 1080 Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better Mesa 11.3 RadeonSI: R9 285 .. 115.42 |====================================== Mesa 11.3 RadeonSI: R9 290 .. 119.00 |======================================= Mesa 11.3 RadeonSI: R9 Fury . 118.88 |======================================= AMDGPU-PRO: R9 Fury ......... 121.97 |======================================== AMDGPU-PRO: R9 285 .......... 123.53 |========================================= AMDGPU-PRO: R9 290 .......... 123.24 |========================================= Unigine Valley 1.0 Resolution: 1920 x 1080 - Mode: Fullscreen Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better Mesa 11.3 RadeonSI: R9 285 .. 48.50 |====================== Mesa 11.3 RadeonSI: R9 290 .. 66.31 |============================== Mesa 11.3 RadeonSI: R9 Fury . 82.06 |===================================== AMDGPU-PRO: R9 Fury ......... 93.19 |========================================== AMDGPU-PRO: R9 285 .......... 51.11 |======================= AMDGPU-PRO: R9 290 .......... 67.41 |============================== Xonotic 0.8 Resolution: 1920 x 1080 - Effects Quality: Ultra Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better Mesa 11.3 RadeonSI: R9 285 .. 218.09 |======================================== Mesa 11.3 RadeonSI: R9 290 .. 226.29 |========================================= Mesa 11.3 RadeonSI: R9 Fury . 226.05 |========================================= AMDGPU-PRO: R9 Fury ......... 201.50 |===================================== AMDGPU-PRO: R9 285 .......... 201.68 |===================================== AMDGPU-PRO: R9 290 .......... 200.20 |==================================== Xonotic 0.8 Resolution: 1920 x 1080 - Effects Quality: Ultimate Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better Mesa 11.3 RadeonSI: R9 285 .. 170.87 |====================================== Mesa 11.3 RadeonSI: R9 290 .. 184.98 |========================================= Mesa 11.3 RadeonSI: R9 Fury . 184.97 |========================================= AMDGPU-PRO: R9 Fury ......... 167.26 |===================================== AMDGPU-PRO: R9 285 .......... 167.26 |===================================== AMDGPU-PRO: R9 290 .......... 163.02 |==================================== Tesseract 2014-05-12 Resolution: 1920 x 1080 Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better Mesa 11.3 RadeonSI: R9 285 .. 165.41 |====================== Mesa 11.3 RadeonSI: R9 290 .. 228.53 |============================== Mesa 11.3 RadeonSI: R9 Fury . 261.22 |================================== AMDGPU-PRO: R9 Fury ......... 313.40 |========================================= AMDGPU-PRO: R9 285 .......... 258.80 |================================== AMDGPU-PRO: R9 290 .......... 283.99 |===================================== GpuTest 0.7.0 Test: Furmark - Resolution: 1920 x 1080 - Mode: Fullscreen Points > Higher Is Better Mesa 11.3 RadeonSI: R9 285 .. 3860 |================== Mesa 11.3 RadeonSI: R9 290 .. 5389 |========================== Mesa 11.3 RadeonSI: R9 Fury . 8745 |========================================== AMDGPU-PRO: R9 Fury ......... 9030 |=========================================== AMDGPU-PRO: R9 285 .......... 3929 |=================== AMDGPU-PRO: R9 290 .......... 5500 |========================== GpuTest 0.7.0 Test: Pixmark Piano - Resolution: 1920 x 1080 - Mode: Fullscreen Points > Higher Is Better Mesa 11.3 RadeonSI: R9 285 .. 777 |==================== Mesa 11.3 RadeonSI: R9 290 .. 919 |======================= Mesa 11.3 RadeonSI: R9 Fury . 1702 |=========================================== AMDGPU-PRO: R9 Fury ......... 1691 |=========================================== AMDGPU-PRO: R9 285 .......... 785 |==================== AMDGPU-PRO: R9 290 .......... 972 |========================= GpuTest 0.7.0 Test: Pixmark Volplosion - Resolution: 1920 x 1080 - Mode: Fullscreen Points > Higher Is Better Mesa 11.3 RadeonSI: R9 285 .. 2099 |==================== Mesa 11.3 RadeonSI: R9 290 .. 2687 |========================= Mesa 11.3 RadeonSI: R9 Fury . 4626 |=========================================== AMDGPU-PRO: R9 Fury ......... 4413 |========================================= AMDGPU-PRO: R9 285 .......... 2016 |=================== AMDGPU-PRO: R9 290 .......... 2544 |======================== GpuTest 0.7.0 Test: Triangle - Resolution: 1920 x 1080 - Mode: Fullscreen Points > Higher Is Better Mesa 11.3 RadeonSI: R9 285 .. 211314 |==================== Mesa 11.3 RadeonSI: R9 290 .. 303134 |============================= Mesa 11.3 RadeonSI: R9 Fury . 426289 |========================================= AMDGPU-PRO: R9 Fury ......... 323607 |=============================== AMDGPU-PRO: R9 285 .......... 195726 |=================== AMDGPU-PRO: R9 290 .......... 286785 |============================ GpuTest 0.7.0 Test: Plot3D - Resolution: 1920 x 1080 - Mode: Fullscreen Points > Higher Is Better Mesa 11.3 RadeonSI: R9 285 .. 49060 |========================= Mesa 11.3 RadeonSI: R9 290 .. 52254 |========================== Mesa 11.3 RadeonSI: R9 Fury . 57589 |============================= AMDGPU-PRO: R9 Fury ......... 83858 |========================================== AMDGPU-PRO: R9 285 .......... 59913 |============================== AMDGPU-PRO: R9 290 .......... 70770 |===================================