Dota 2 RADV vs. AMDGPU-PRO Vulkaning Tests for a future article on Phoronix.com comparing Vulkan of AMDGPU-PRO and RADV drivers. R9 285: RADV: 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: XFX AMD Radeon R9 285/380 2048MB, Audio: Realtek ALC1150, Monitor: Acer B286HK, Network: Intel Connection OS: Ubuntu 16.04, Kernel: 4.8.0-999-generic (x86_64) 20160823, Desktop: Unity 7.4.0, Display Server: X Server 1.18.3, OpenGL: 4.3 Mesa 12.1.0-devel (git-4477342) Gallium 0.4, Compiler: GCC 5.4.0 20160609 + LLVM 4.0.0, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 3840x2160 R9 Fury: RADV: 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: Sapphire AMD Radeon R9 FURY / NANO 4096MB, Audio: Realtek ALC1150, Monitor: Acer B286HK, Network: Intel Connection OS: Ubuntu 16.04, Kernel: 4.8.0-999-generic (x86_64) 20160823, Desktop: Unity 7.4.0, Display Server: X Server 1.18.3, OpenGL: 4.3 Mesa 12.1.0-devel (git-4477342) Gallium 0.4, Compiler: GCC 5.4.0 20160609 + LLVM 4.0.0, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 3840x2160 RX 480: RADV: 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: AMD Device 67df 8192MB, Audio: Realtek ALC1150, Monitor: Acer B286HK, Network: Intel Connection OS: Ubuntu 16.04, Kernel: 4.8.0-999-generic (x86_64) 20160823, Desktop: Unity 7.4.0, Display Server: X Server 1.18.3, OpenGL: 4.3 Mesa 12.1.0-devel (git-4477342) Gallium 0.4, Compiler: GCC 5.4.0 20160609 + LLVM 4.0.0, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 3840x2160 R9 285: AMDGPU-PRO: 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: XFX AMD Radeon R9 285/380 2048MB, Audio: Realtek ALC1150, Monitor: Acer B286HK, Network: Intel Connection OS: Ubuntu 16.04, Kernel: 4.4.0-36-generic (x86_64), Desktop: Unity 7.4.0, Display Server: X Server 1.18.3, OpenCL: OpenCL 2.0 AMD-APP (2117.7), Compiler: GCC 5.4.0 20160609, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 3840x2160 R9 Fury: AMDGPU-PRO: 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: Sapphire AMD Radeon R9 FURY / NANO 4096MB, Audio: Realtek ALC1150, Monitor: Acer B286HK, Network: Intel Connection OS: Ubuntu 16.04, Kernel: 4.4.0-36-generic (x86_64), Desktop: Unity 7.4.0, Display Server: X Server 1.18.3, OpenCL: OpenCL 2.0 AMD-APP (2117.7), Compiler: GCC 5.4.0 20160609, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 3840x2160 RX 480: AMDGPU-PRO: 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: AMD Device 67df 8192MB, Audio: Realtek ALC1150, Monitor: Acer B286HK, Network: Intel Connection OS: Ubuntu 16.04, Kernel: 4.4.0-36-generic (x86_64), Desktop: Unity 7.4.0, Display Server: X Server 1.18.3, OpenCL: OpenCL 2.0 AMD-APP (2117.7), Compiler: GCC 5.4.0 20160609, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 3840x2160 Dota 2 Resolution: 800 x 600 - Renderer: OpenGL Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better R9 285: RadeonSI .... 93.60 |================================================== R9 Fury: RadeonSI ... 92.83 |================================================== RX 480: RadeonSI .... 92.60 |================================================= R9 285: AMDGPU-PRO .. 87.30 |=============================================== R9 Fury: AMDGPU-PRO . 87.07 |=============================================== RX 480: AMDGPU-PRO .. 88.03 |=============================================== Dota 2 CPU Usage (Summary) Monitor Percent < Lower Is Better R9 285: RadeonSI .... MIN: 0.3 AVG: 25.9 MAX: 37.3 R9 Fury: RadeonSI ... MIN: 0.0 AVG: 25.5 MAX: 36.5 RX 480: RadeonSI .... MIN: 0.5 AVG: 26.4 MAX: 46.1 R9 285: AMDGPU-PRO .. MIN: 1.3 AVG: 33.9 MAX: 46.8 R9 Fury: AMDGPU-PRO . MIN: 0.5 AVG: 33.0 MAX: 47.3 RX 480: AMDGPU-PRO .. MIN: 0.8 AVG: 34.4 MAX: 47.5 Dota 2 Resolution: 800 x 600 - Renderer: Vulkan Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better R9 285: RADV ........ 109.20 |================================================= R9 Fury: RADV ....... 102.80 |============================================== RX 480: RADV ........ 103.73 |=============================================== R9 285: AMDGPU-PRO .. 102.83 |============================================== R9 Fury: AMDGPU-PRO . 103.50 |============================================== RX 480: AMDGPU-PRO .. 103.03 |============================================== Dota 2 CPU Usage (Summary) Monitor Percent < Lower Is Better R9 285: RADV ........ MIN: 1.8 AVG: 26.9 MAX: 35.7 R9 Fury: RADV ....... MIN: 0.0 AVG: 25.0 MAX: 50.5 RX 480: RADV ........ MIN: 1.0 AVG: 26.0 MAX: 34.7 R9 285: AMDGPU-PRO .. MIN: 2.5 AVG: 26.5 MAX: 35.8 R9 Fury: AMDGPU-PRO . MIN: 0.3 AVG: 26.9 MAX: 50.5 RX 480: AMDGPU-PRO .. MIN: 1.8 AVG: 27.0 MAX: 40.9 Dota 2 Resolution: 1920 x 1080 - Renderer: OpenGL Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better R9 285: RadeonSI .... 90.50 |================================================== R9 Fury: RadeonSI ... 90.63 |================================================== RX 480: RadeonSI .... 89.63 |================================================= R9 285: AMDGPU-PRO .. 81.33 |============================================= R9 Fury: AMDGPU-PRO . 84.87 |=============================================== RX 480: AMDGPU-PRO .. 84.50 |=============================================== Dota 2 CPU Usage (Summary) Monitor Percent < Lower Is Better R9 285: RadeonSI .... MIN: 0.3 AVG: 27.6 MAX: 44.4 R9 Fury: RadeonSI ... MIN: 0.3 AVG: 25.5 MAX: 37.5 RX 480: RadeonSI .... MIN: 1.3 AVG: 26.4 MAX: 36.8 R9 285: AMDGPU-PRO .. MIN: 1.0 AVG: 33.6 MAX: 47.6 R9 Fury: AMDGPU-PRO . MIN: 0.3 AVG: 34.5 MAX: 47.2 RX 480: AMDGPU-PRO .. MIN: 0.8 AVG: 35.1 MAX: 47.6 Dota 2 Resolution: 1920 x 1080 - Renderer: Vulkan Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better R9 285: RADV ........ 58.13 |============================ R9 Fury: RADV ....... 99.87 |================================================ RX 480: RADV ........ 94.23 |============================================= R9 285: AMDGPU-PRO .. 101.37 |================================================= R9 Fury: AMDGPU-PRO . 101.87 |================================================= RX 480: AMDGPU-PRO .. 100.80 |================================================ Dota 2 CPU Usage (Summary) Monitor Percent < Lower Is Better R9 285: RADV ........ MIN: 2.7 AVG: 23.5 MAX: 32.8 R9 Fury: RADV ....... MIN: 0.3 AVG: 25.6 MAX: 37.7 RX 480: RADV ........ MIN: 0.3 AVG: 25.9 MAX: 36.0 R9 285: AMDGPU-PRO .. MIN: 0.5 AVG: 26.8 MAX: 36.5 R9 Fury: AMDGPU-PRO . MIN: 1.8 AVG: 26.5 MAX: 40.4 RX 480: AMDGPU-PRO .. MIN: 0.5 AVG: 27.1 MAX: 50.6 Dota 2 Resolution: 3840 x 2160 - Renderer: OpenGL Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better R9 285: RadeonSI .... 44.97 |============================= R9 Fury: RadeonSI ... 78.60 |================================================== RX 480: RadeonSI .... 60.23 |====================================== R9 285: AMDGPU-PRO .. 41.73 |=========================== R9 Fury: AMDGPU-PRO . 77.90 |================================================== RX 480: AMDGPU-PRO .. 63.03 |======================================== Dota 2 CPU Usage (Summary) Monitor Percent < Lower Is Better R9 285: RadeonSI .... MIN: 0.3 AVG: 21.5 MAX: 28.9 R9 Fury: RadeonSI ... MIN: 0.5 AVG: 26.9 MAX: 37.2 RX 480: RadeonSI .... MIN: 0.5 AVG: 23.3 MAX: 40.5 R9 285: AMDGPU-PRO .. MIN: 4.0 AVG: 25.3 MAX: 37.7 R9 Fury: AMDGPU-PRO . MIN: 1.3 AVG: 33.5 MAX: 47.8 RX 480: AMDGPU-PRO .. MIN: 0.3 AVG: 31.0 MAX: 44.9 Dota 2 Resolution: 3840 x 2160 - Renderer: Vulkan Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better R9 285: RADV ........ 13.50 |======== R9 Fury: RADV ....... 53.33 |================================ RX 480: RADV ........ 40.27 |======================== R9 Fury: AMDGPU-PRO . 84.60 |================================================== RX 480: AMDGPU-PRO .. 67.57 |======================================== Dota 2 CPU Usage (Summary) Monitor Percent < Lower Is Better R9 Fury: RADV ....... MIN: 0.3 AVG: 19.9 MAX: 26.8 RX 480: RADV ........ MIN: 3.0 AVG: 16.8 MAX: 21.8 R9 Fury: AMDGPU-PRO . MIN: 0.5 AVG: 23.3 MAX: 46.7 RX 480: AMDGPU-PRO .. MIN: 0.3 AVG: 21.0 MAX: 47.3