Ubuntu 16.10 Desktops RadeonSI Ubuntu 16.10 desktop comparison with RadeonSI on R9 Fury. Tests by Michael Larabel. Budgie: Processor: Intel Xeon E3-1280 v5 @ 4.00GHz (8 Cores), Motherboard: MSI C236A WORKSTATION (MS-7998) v1.0, Chipset: Intel Skylake, Memory: 16384MB, Disk: 256GB INTEL SSDPEKKW256G7, Graphics: Sapphire AMD Radeon R9 FURY / NANO 4096MB, Audio: Realtek ALC1150, Monitor: Acer B286HK, Network: Intel Connection OS: Ubuntu 16.10, Kernel: 4.9.0-999-generic (x86_64) 20161113, Desktop: KDE Frameworks 5, Display Server: X Server 1.18.4, Display Driver: modesetting 1.18.4, OpenGL: 4.5 Mesa 13.1.0-devel- padoka PPA Gallium 0.4, Vulkan: 1.0.21, Compiler: GCC 6.2.0 20161005, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 3840x2160 GNOME Shell: Processor: Intel Xeon E3-1280 v5 @ 4.00GHz (8 Cores), Motherboard: MSI C236A WORKSTATION (MS-7998) v1.0, Chipset: Intel Skylake, Memory: 16384MB, Disk: 256GB INTEL SSDPEKKW256G7, Graphics: Sapphire AMD Radeon R9 FURY / NANO 4096MB, Audio: Realtek ALC1150, Monitor: Acer B286HK, Network: Intel Connection OS: Ubuntu 16.10, Kernel: 4.9.0-999-generic (x86_64) 20161113, Desktop: GNOME Shell 3.20.4, Display Server: X Server 1.18.4, Display Driver: modesetting 1.18.4, OpenGL: 4.5 Mesa 13.1.0-devel- padoka PPA Gallium 0.4, Vulkan: 1.0.21, Compiler: GCC 6.2.0 20161005, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 3840x2160 KDE Plasma 5: Processor: Intel Xeon E3-1280 v5 @ 4.00GHz (8 Cores), Motherboard: MSI C236A WORKSTATION (MS-7998) v1.0, Chipset: Intel Skylake, Memory: 16384MB, Disk: 256GB INTEL SSDPEKKW256G7, Graphics: Sapphire AMD Radeon R9 FURY / NANO 4096MB, Audio: Realtek ALC1150, Monitor: Acer B286HK, Network: Intel Connection OS: Ubuntu 16.10, Kernel: 4.9.0-999-generic (x86_64) 20161113, Desktop: KDE Frameworks 5, Display Server: X Server 1.18.4, Display Driver: modesetting 1.18.4, OpenGL: 4.5 Mesa 13.1.0-devel- padoka PPA Gallium 0.4, Vulkan: 1.0.21, Compiler: GCC 6.2.0 20161005, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 3840x2160 KDE Plasma 5 - Compositing Disabled: Processor: Intel Xeon E3-1280 v5 @ 4.00GHz (8 Cores), Motherboard: MSI C236A WORKSTATION (MS-7998) v1.0, Chipset: Intel Skylake, Memory: 16384MB, Disk: 256GB INTEL SSDPEKKW256G7, Graphics: Sapphire AMD Radeon R9 FURY / NANO 4096MB, Audio: Realtek ALC1150, Monitor: Acer B286HK, Network: Intel Connection OS: Ubuntu 16.10, Kernel: 4.9.0-999-generic (x86_64) 20161113, Desktop: KDE Frameworks 5, Display Server: X Server 1.18.4, Display Driver: modesetting 1.18.4, OpenGL: 4.5 Mesa 13.1.0-devel- padoka PPA Gallium 0.4, Vulkan: 1.0.21, Compiler: GCC 6.2.0 20161005, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 3840x2160 LXDE: Processor: Intel Xeon E3-1280 v5 @ 4.00GHz (8 Cores), Motherboard: MSI C236A WORKSTATION (MS-7998) v1.0, Chipset: Intel Skylake, Memory: 16384MB, Disk: 256GB INTEL SSDPEKKW256G7, Graphics: Sapphire AMD Radeon R9 FURY / NANO 4096MB, Audio: Realtek ALC1150, Monitor: Acer B286HK, Network: Intel Connection OS: Ubuntu 16.10, Kernel: 4.9.0-999-generic (x86_64) 20161113, Desktop: LXDE 0.8.2, Display Server: X Server 1.18.4, Display Driver: modesetting 1.18.4, OpenGL: 4.5 Mesa 13.1.0-devel- padoka PPA Gallium 0.4, Vulkan: 1.0.21, Compiler: GCC 6.2.0 20161005, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 3840x2160 MATE: Processor: Intel Xeon E3-1280 v5 @ 4.00GHz (8 Cores), Motherboard: MSI C236A WORKSTATION (MS-7998) v1.0, Chipset: Intel Skylake, Memory: 16384MB, Disk: 256GB INTEL SSDPEKKW256G7, Graphics: Sapphire AMD Radeon R9 FURY / NANO 4096MB, Audio: Realtek ALC1150, Monitor: Acer B286HK, Network: Intel Connection OS: Ubuntu 16.10, Kernel: 4.9.0-999-generic (x86_64) 20161113, Desktop: MATE 1.16.0, Display Server: X Server 1.18.4, Display Driver: modesetting 1.18.4, OpenGL: 4.5 Mesa 13.1.0-devel- padoka PPA Gallium 0.4, Vulkan: 1.0.21, Compiler: GCC 6.2.0 20161005, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 3840x2160 Unity 7: Processor: Intel Xeon E3-1280 v5 @ 4.00GHz (8 Cores), Motherboard: MSI C236A WORKSTATION (MS-7998) v1.0, Chipset: Intel Skylake, Memory: 16384MB, Disk: 256GB INTEL SSDPEKKW256G7, Graphics: Sapphire AMD Radeon R9 FURY / NANO 4096MB, Audio: Realtek ALC1150, Monitor: Acer B286HK, Network: Intel Connection OS: Ubuntu 16.10, Kernel: 4.9.0-999-generic (x86_64) 20161113, Desktop: Unity 7.5.0, Display Server: X Server 1.18.4, Display Driver: modesetting 1.18.4, OpenGL: 4.5 Mesa 13.1.0-devel- padoka PPA Gallium 0.4, Vulkan: 1.0.21, Compiler: GCC 6.2.0 20161005, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 3840x2160 Xfce: Processor: Intel Xeon E3-1280 v5 @ 4.00GHz (8 Cores), Motherboard: MSI C236A WORKSTATION (MS-7998) v1.0, Chipset: Intel Skylake, Memory: 16384MB, Disk: 256GB INTEL SSDPEKKW256G7, Graphics: Sapphire AMD Radeon R9 FURY / NANO 4096MB, Audio: Realtek ALC1150, Monitor: Acer B286HK, Network: Intel Connection OS: Ubuntu 16.10, Kernel: 4.9.0-999-generic (x86_64) 20161113, Desktop: Xfce 4.12, Display Server: X Server 1.18.4, Display Driver: modesetting 1.18.4, OpenGL: 4.5 Mesa 13.1.0-devel- padoka PPA Gallium 0.4, Vulkan: 1.0.21, Compiler: GCC 6.2.0 20161005, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 3840x2160 BioShock Infinite Resolution: 1920 x 1080 - Effects Quality: Ultra Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better Budgie .............................. 97.37 |================================== GNOME Shell ......................... 97.02 |================================== KDE Plasma 5 ........................ 96.83 |================================== KDE Plasma 5 - Compositing Disabled . 97.47 |================================== LXDE ................................ 96.88 |================================== MATE ................................ 95.48 |================================= Unity 7 ............................. 96.95 |================================== Xfce ................................ 96.38 |================================== Counter-Strike: Global Offensive Resolution: 1920 x 1080 Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better Budgie .............................. 15.08 |=== GNOME Shell ......................... 15.06 |=== KDE Plasma 5 ........................ 171.96 |================================= KDE Plasma 5 - Compositing Disabled . 170.97 |================================= LXDE ................................ 169.83 |================================= MATE ................................ 169.49 |================================= Unity 7 ............................. 171.19 |================================= Xfce ................................ 168.99 |================================ Counter-Strike: Global Offensive Resolution: 3840 x 2160 Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better Budgie .............................. 15.16 |==== GNOME Shell ......................... 16.08 |==== KDE Plasma 5 ........................ 134.48 |================================= KDE Plasma 5 - Compositing Disabled . 134.79 |================================= LXDE ................................ 134.74 |================================= MATE ................................ 127.23 |=============================== Unity 7 ............................. 134.33 |================================= Xfce ................................ 129.15 |================================ Metro: Last Light Redux Resolution: 1920 x 1080 Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better Budgie .............................. 113.11 |================================= GNOME Shell ......................... 111.93 |================================ KDE Plasma 5 ........................ 113.68 |================================= KDE Plasma 5 - Compositing Disabled . 113.55 |================================= LXDE ................................ 114.36 |================================= MATE ................................ 113.11 |================================= Unity 7 ............................. 113.67 |================================= Xfce ................................ 113.05 |================================= OpenArena 0.8.8 Resolution: 1920 x 1080 Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better Budgie .............................. 325.40 |=============================== GNOME Shell ......................... 335.37 |================================ KDE Plasma 5 ........................ 312.23 |============================== KDE Plasma 5 - Compositing Disabled . 328.97 |================================ LXDE ................................ 343.80 |================================= MATE ................................ 329.83 |================================ Unity 7 ............................. 313.70 |============================== Xfce ................................ 333.94 |================================ OpenArena 0.8.8 Resolution: 1920 x 1080 - Total Frame Time Milliseconds < Lower Is Better Budgie .............................. MIN: 1.0 AVG: 3.1 MAX: 26.0 GNOME Shell ......................... MIN: 1.0 AVG: 2.9 MAX: 26.0 KDE Plasma 5 ........................ MIN: 1.0 AVG: 3.2 MAX: 26.0 KDE Plasma 5 - Compositing Disabled . MIN: 1.0 AVG: 3.1 MAX: 26.0 LXDE ................................ MIN: 1.0 AVG: 2.9 MAX: 26.0 MATE ................................ MIN: 1.0 AVG: 3.0 MAX: 26.0 Unity 7 ............................. MIN: 1.0 AVG: 3.2 MAX: 28.0 Xfce ................................ MIN: 1.0 AVG: 3.0 MAX: 27.0 Tesseract 2014-05-12 Resolution: 3840 x 2160 Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better Budgie .............................. 213.19 |================================ GNOME Shell ......................... 214.26 |================================= KDE Plasma 5 ........................ 215.67 |================================= KDE Plasma 5 - Compositing Disabled . 215.47 |================================= LXDE ................................ 216.94 |================================= MATE ................................ 198.17 |============================== Unity 7 ............................. 216.07 |================================= Xfce ................................ 201.02 |=============================== Unigine Heaven 4.0 Resolution: 1920 x 1080 - Mode: Fullscreen Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better Budgie .............................. 81.93 |================================== GNOME Shell ......................... 81.61 |================================== KDE Plasma 5 ........................ 80.77 |================================== KDE Plasma 5 - Compositing Disabled . 81.58 |================================== LXDE ................................ 81.51 |================================== MATE ................................ 80.33 |================================= Unity 7 ............................. 81.63 |================================== Xfce ................................ 81.81 |================================== Xonotic 0.8 Resolution: 3840 x 2160 - Effects Quality: Ultra Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better Budgie .............................. 225.89 |=============================== GNOME Shell ......................... 225.82 |=============================== KDE Plasma 5 ........................ 236.77 |================================= KDE Plasma 5 - Compositing Disabled . 228.71 |================================ LXDE ................................ 227.69 |================================ MATE ................................ 225.63 |=============================== Unity 7 ............................. 226.76 |================================ Xfce ................................ 224.11 |===============================