2015 To 2016 AMD Open-Source Radeon Testing Tests for a future article on Phoronix.com. Ubuntu 15.04 - Linux 3.19 + Mesa 10.5: Processor: Intel Xeon E3-1280 v5 @ 3.70GHz (8 Cores), Motherboard: MSI C236A WORKSTATION (MS-7998) v1.0, Chipset: Intel Sky Lake, Memory: 16384MB, Disk: 219GB, Graphics: Gigabyte AMD Radeon R9 270X 2048MB, Audio: Intel Sunrise Point-H HD Audio, Monitor: Acer B286HK, Network: Intel Connection OS: Ubuntu 15.04, Kernel: 3.19.0-66-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: 3840x2160 Ubuntu 15.10 - Linux 4.2 + Mesa 11.0: 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: 219GB, Graphics: Gigabyte AMD Radeon R7 370 / R9 270X/370 OEM 2048MB, Audio: Realtek ALC1150, Monitor: Acer B286HK, Network: Intel Connection OS: Ubuntu 15.10, Kernel: 4.2.0-42-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: 3840x2160 Ubuntu 16.04 - Linux 4.4 + Mesa 11.2: 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: Samsung SSD 950 PRO 256GB, Graphics: Gigabyte AMD Radeon R7 370 / R9 270X/370 OEM 2048MB, Audio: Realtek ALC1150, Monitor: Acer B286HK, Network: Intel Connection OS: Ubuntu 16.04, Kernel: 4.4.0-34-generic (x86_64), Desktop: Unity 7.4.0, Display Server: X Server 1.18.3, Display Driver: modesetting 1.18.3, OpenGL: 4.1 Mesa 11.2.0 Gallium 0.4, Compiler: GCC 5.4.0 20160609, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 3840x2160 Ubuntu 16.04 - Linux 4.8 + Mesa 12.1-dev: 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: Samsung SSD 950 PRO 256GB, Graphics: Gigabyte AMD Radeon R7 370 / R9 270X/370 OEM 2048MB, Audio: Realtek ALC1150, Monitor: Acer B286HK, Network: Intel Connection OS: Ubuntu 16.04, Kernel: 4.8.0-999-generic (x86_64) 20160821, Desktop: Unity 7.4.0, Display Server: X Server 1.18.3, Display Driver: modesetting 1.18.3, OpenGL: 4.3 Mesa 12.1.0-devel- padoka PPA Gallium 0.4, Compiler: GCC 5.4.0 20160609, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 3840x2160 Counter-Strike: Global Offensive Resolution: 1920 x 1080 Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better Ubuntu 15.04 - Linux 3.19 + Mesa 10.5 .... 71.80 |============== Ubuntu 15.10 - Linux 4.2 + Mesa 11.0 ..... 84.14 |================= Ubuntu 16.04 - Linux 4.4 + Mesa 11.2 ..... 126.88 |========================= Ubuntu 16.04 - Linux 4.8 + Mesa 12.1-dev . 140.59 |============================ Counter-Strike: Global Offensive Resolution: 3840 x 2160 Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better Ubuntu 15.04 - Linux 3.19 + Mesa 10.5 .... 41.00 |================== Ubuntu 15.10 - Linux 4.2 + Mesa 11.0 ..... 46.30 |===================== Ubuntu 16.04 - Linux 4.4 + Mesa 11.2 ..... 60.96 |=========================== Ubuntu 16.04 - Linux 4.8 + Mesa 12.1-dev . 64.93 |============================= Dota 2 Resolution: 1920 x 1080 - Renderer: OpenGL Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better Ubuntu 15.04 - Linux 3.19 + Mesa 10.5 .... 63.30 |==================== Ubuntu 15.10 - Linux 4.2 + Mesa 11.0 ..... 72.37 |======================= Ubuntu 16.04 - Linux 4.4 + Mesa 11.2 ..... 89.87 |============================= Ubuntu 16.04 - Linux 4.8 + Mesa 12.1-dev . 91.23 |============================= Dota 2 Resolution: 3840 x 2160 - Renderer: OpenGL Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better Ubuntu 15.04 - Linux 3.19 + Mesa 10.5 .... 26.00 |==================== Ubuntu 15.10 - Linux 4.2 + Mesa 11.0 ..... 26.83 |==================== Ubuntu 16.04 - Linux 4.4 + Mesa 11.2 ..... 34.57 |========================== Ubuntu 16.04 - Linux 4.8 + Mesa 12.1-dev . 38.53 |============================= OpenArena 0.8.8 Resolution: 1920 x 1080 Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better Ubuntu 15.04 - Linux 3.19 + Mesa 10.5 .... 218.03 |========================== Ubuntu 15.10 - Linux 4.2 + Mesa 11.0 ..... 232.83 |============================ Ubuntu 16.04 - Linux 4.8 + Mesa 12.1-dev . 232.53 |============================ OpenArena 0.8.8 Resolution: 1920 x 1080 - Total Frame Time Milliseconds < Lower Is Better Ubuntu 15.04 - Linux 3.19 + Mesa 10.5 .... MIN: 2.0 AVG: 4.6 MAX: 38.0 Ubuntu 15.10 - Linux 4.2 + Mesa 11.0 ..... MIN: 1.0 AVG: 4.3 MAX: 22.0 Ubuntu 16.04 - Linux 4.8 + Mesa 12.1-dev . MIN: 1.0 AVG: 4.3 MAX: 26.0 Tesseract 2014-05-12 Resolution: 3840 x 2160 Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better Ubuntu 15.04 - Linux 3.19 + Mesa 10.5 .... 69.34 |======================== Ubuntu 15.10 - Linux 4.2 + Mesa 11.0 ..... 74.90 |========================== Ubuntu 16.04 - Linux 4.4 + Mesa 11.2 ..... 79.56 |============================ Ubuntu 16.04 - Linux 4.8 + Mesa 12.1-dev . 83.67 |============================= Xonotic 0.8 Resolution: 3840 x 2160 - Effects Quality: Ultimate Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better Ubuntu 15.04 - Linux 3.19 + Mesa 10.5 .... 81.99 |======================== Ubuntu 15.10 - Linux 4.2 + Mesa 11.0 ..... 92.53 |=========================== Ubuntu 16.04 - Linux 4.4 + Mesa 11.2 ..... 88.73 |========================== Ubuntu 16.04 - Linux 4.8 + Mesa 12.1-dev . 98.35 |============================= GpuTest 0.7.0 Test: Furmark - Resolution: 3840 x 2160 - Mode: Fullscreen Points > Higher Is Better Ubuntu 15.04 - Linux 3.19 + Mesa 10.5 .... 1158 |========================== Ubuntu 15.10 - Linux 4.2 + Mesa 11.0 ..... 1205 |=========================== Ubuntu 16.04 - Linux 4.4 + Mesa 11.2 ..... 1325 |============================== Ubuntu 16.04 - Linux 4.8 + Mesa 12.1-dev . 1344 |============================== GpuTest 0.7.0 Test: Triangle - Resolution: 3840 x 2160 - Mode: Fullscreen Points > Higher Is Better Ubuntu 15.04 - Linux 3.19 + Mesa 10.5 .... 76314 |============ Ubuntu 15.10 - Linux 4.2 + Mesa 11.0 ..... 76476 |============ Ubuntu 16.04 - Linux 4.4 + Mesa 11.2 ..... 77079 |============ Ubuntu 16.04 - Linux 4.8 + Mesa 12.1-dev . 183507 |============================ Unigine Valley 1.0 Resolution: 1920 x 1080 - Mode: Fullscreen Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better Ubuntu 15.04 - Linux 3.19 + Mesa 10.5 .... 30.19 |===================== Ubuntu 15.10 - Linux 4.2 + Mesa 11.0 ..... 33.65 |======================= Ubuntu 16.04 - Linux 4.4 + Mesa 11.2 ..... 38.95 |=========================== Ubuntu 16.04 - Linux 4.8 + Mesa 12.1-dev . 41.54 |============================= Unigine Heaven 4.0 Resolution: 1920 x 1080 - Mode: Fullscreen Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better Ubuntu 15.04 - Linux 3.19 + Mesa 10.5 .... 29.98 |======================== Ubuntu 15.10 - Linux 4.2 + Mesa 11.0 ..... 20.29 |================= Ubuntu 16.04 - Linux 4.4 + Mesa 11.2 ..... 23.58 |=================== Ubuntu 16.04 - Linux 4.8 + Mesa 12.1-dev . 35.50 |=============================