Radeon R9 290 Regression Still Radeon R9 290 still bad as of Linux 4.9 and Mesa 13.1-dev for this HIS model. Tests by Michael Larabel. The big 2016 AMD Linux comparison year-end coming very shortly! Radeon R9 285: Processor: Intel Xeon E3-1280 v5 @ 4.00GHz (8 Cores), Motherboard: MSI C236A WORKSTATION (MS-7998) v1.0, Chipset: Intel Skylake, Memory: 16384MB, Disk: Samsung SSD 960 EVO 250GB, Graphics: XFX AMD Radeon R9 285/380 2048MB, Audio: Realtek ALC1150, Monitor: Acer B286HK, Network: Intel Connection OS: Ubuntu 16.10, Kernel: 4.9.0-040900-generic (x86_64), 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, Compiler: GCC 6.2.0 20161005, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 3840x2160 Radeon R9 290: Processor: Intel Xeon E3-1280 v5 @ 4.00GHz (8 Cores), Motherboard: MSI C236A WORKSTATION (MS-7998) v1.0, Chipset: Intel Skylake, Memory: 16384MB, Disk: Samsung SSD 960 EVO 250GB, Graphics: XFX AMD Radeon R9 290/390 4096MB, Audio: Realtek ALC1150, Monitor: Acer B286HK, Network: Intel Connection OS: Ubuntu 16.10, Kernel: 4.9.0-040900-generic (x86_64), 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, Compiler: GCC 6.2.0 20161005, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 3840x2160 Radeon RX 460: Processor: Intel Xeon E3-1280 v5 @ 4.00GHz (8 Cores), Motherboard: MSI C236A WORKSTATION (MS-7998) v1.0, Chipset: Intel Skylake, Memory: 16384MB, Disk: Samsung SSD 960 EVO 250GB, Graphics: AMD Radeon RX 460 2048MB, Audio: Realtek ALC1150, Monitor: Acer B286HK, Network: Intel Connection OS: Ubuntu 16.10, Kernel: 4.9.0-040900-generic (x86_64), Desktop: Unity 7.5.0, Display Server: X Server 1.18.4, Display Driver: amdgpu 1.2.99, OpenGL: 4.5 Mesa 13.1.0-devel- padoka PPA Gallium 0.4, Compiler: GCC 6.2.0 20161005, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 3840x2160 Radeon RX 480: Processor: Intel Xeon E3-1280 v5 @ 4.00GHz (8 Cores), Motherboard: MSI C236A WORKSTATION (MS-7998) v1.0, Chipset: Intel Skylake, Memory: 16384MB, Disk: Samsung SSD 960 EVO 250GB, Graphics: AMD Radeon RX 470/480 8192MB, Audio: Realtek ALC1150, Monitor: Acer B286HK, Network: Intel Connection OS: Ubuntu 16.10, Kernel: 4.9.0-040900-generic (x86_64), Desktop: Unity 7.5.0, Display Server: X Server 1.18.4, Display Driver: amdgpu 1.2.99, OpenGL: 4.5 Mesa 13.1.0-devel- padoka PPA Gallium 0.4, Compiler: GCC 6.2.0 20161005, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 3840x2160 Radeon R9 Fury: Processor: Intel Xeon E3-1280 v5 @ 4.00GHz (8 Cores), Motherboard: MSI C236A WORKSTATION (MS-7998) v1.0, Chipset: Intel Skylake, Memory: 16384MB, Disk: Samsung SSD 960 EVO 250GB, Graphics: Sapphire AMD Radeon R9 FURY / NANO 4096MB, Audio: Realtek ALC1150, Monitor: Acer B286HK, Network: Intel Connection OS: Ubuntu 16.10, Kernel: 4.9.0-040900-generic (x86_64), 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, 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 Radeon R9 285 .. 97.01 |======================================================= Radeon R9 290 .. 43.56 |======================== Radeon RX 460 .. 93.72 |===================================================== Radeon RX 480 .. 97.90 |======================================================= Radeon R9 Fury . 97.81 |======================================================= Dota 2 Resolution: 1920 x 1080 - Renderer: OpenGL Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better Radeon R9 285 .. 99.13 |================================================== Radeon R9 290 .. 32.87 |================= Radeon RX 460 .. 65.27 |================================= Radeon RX 480 .. 106.60 |====================================================== Radeon R9 Fury . 107.27 |====================================================== Dota 2 Resolution: 3840 x 2160 - Renderer: OpenGL Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better Radeon R9 285 .. 37.20 |============================== Radeon R9 290 .. 10.03 |======== Radeon RX 460 .. 21.77 |================= Radeon RX 480 .. 50.43 |======================================== Radeon R9 Fury . 68.90 |======================================================= ET: Legacy 2.75 Renderer: Renderer2 - Resolution: 1920 x 1080 Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better Radeon R9 285 .. 102.83 |============================================ Radeon R9 290 .. 32.10 |============== Radeon RX 460 .. 82.42 |=================================== Radeon RX 480 .. 120.20 |=================================================== Radeon R9 Fury . 126.93 |====================================================== ET: Legacy 2.75 Renderer: Renderer2 - Resolution: 3840 x 2160 Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better Radeon R9 285 .. 102.28 |=========================================== Radeon R9 290 .. 32.17 |============== Radeon RX 460 .. 77.35 |================================= Radeon RX 480 .. 120.47 |=================================================== Radeon R9 Fury . 127.23 |====================================================== OpenArena 0.8.8 Resolution: 1920 x 1080 Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better Radeon R9 285 .. 266.97 |============================================ Radeon R9 290 .. 305.10 |================================================== Radeon RX 460 .. 156.67 |========================== Radeon RX 480 .. 300.33 |================================================= Radeon R9 Fury . 328.13 |====================================================== OpenArena 0.8.8 Resolution: 1920 x 1080 - Total Frame Time Milliseconds < Lower Is Better Radeon R9 285 .. MIN: 1.0 AVG: 3.7 MAX: 28.0 Radeon R9 290 .. MIN: 1.0 AVG: 3.2 MAX: 27.0 Radeon RX 460 .. MIN: 1.0 AVG: 6.5 MAX: 37.0 Radeon RX 480 .. MIN: 1.0 AVG: 3.3 MAX: 28.0 Radeon R9 Fury . MIN: 1.0 AVG: 3.0 MAX: 26.0 Tesseract 2014-05-12 Resolution: 1920 x 1080 Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better Radeon R9 285 .. 258.15 |======================================== Radeon R9 290 .. 210.22 |================================= Radeon RX 460 .. 187.08 |============================= Radeon RX 480 .. 325.56 |================================================== Radeon R9 Fury . 348.24 |====================================================== Tesseract 2014-05-12 Resolution: 3840 x 2160 Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better Radeon R9 285 .. 118.86 |============================== Radeon R9 290 .. 108.88 |============================ Radeon RX 460 .. 73.91 |=================== Radeon RX 480 .. 152.23 |====================================== Radeon R9 Fury . 213.70 |====================================================== Unigine Heaven 4.0 Resolution: 1920 x 1080 - Mode: Fullscreen Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better Radeon R9 285 .. 47.03 |=============================== Radeon R9 290 .. 59.60 |======================================== Radeon RX 460 .. 29.29 |==================== Radeon RX 480 .. 66.26 |============================================ Radeon R9 Fury . 82.15 |======================================================= Xonotic 0.8 Resolution: 3840 x 2160 - Effects Quality: Ultimate Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better Radeon R9 285 .. 132.14 |====================================== Radeon R9 290 .. 49.96 |=============== Radeon RX 460 .. 71.67 |===================== Radeon RX 480 .. 151.73 |============================================ Radeon R9 Fury . 185.88 |====================================================== GpuTest 0.7.0 Test: Plot3D - Resolution: 1920 x 1080 - Mode: Fullscreen Points > Higher Is Better Radeon R9 285 .. 41427 |=================================== Radeon R9 290 .. 10589 |========= Radeon RX 460 .. 25980 |====================== Radeon RX 480 .. 50707 |========================================== Radeon R9 Fury . 65934 |======================================================= GpuTest 0.7.0 Test: Furmark - Resolution: 1920 x 1080 - Mode: Fullscreen Points > Higher Is Better Radeon R9 285 .. 1546 |========================= Radeon R9 290 .. 306 |===== Radeon RX 460 .. 796 |============= Radeon RX 480 .. 1707 |============================ Radeon R9 Fury . 3436 |======================================================== GpuTest 0.7.0 Test: Triangle - Resolution: 1920 x 1080 - Mode: Fullscreen Points > Higher Is Better Radeon R9 285 .. 102373 |========================= Radeon R9 290 .. 42968 |=========== Radeon RX 460 .. 105519 |========================== Radeon RX 480 .. 204921 |================================================== Radeon R9 Fury . 220939 |====================================================== GpuTest 0.7.0 Test: Pixmark Piano - Resolution: 1920 x 1080 - Mode: Fullscreen Points > Higher Is Better Radeon R9 285 .. 167 |========================== Radeon R9 290 .. 193 |============================== Radeon RX 460 .. 123 |=================== Radeon RX 480 .. 344 |====================================================== Radeon R9 Fury . 365 |========================================================= Metro: Last Light Redux Resolution: 1920 x 1080 Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better Radeon R9 285 .. 105.08 |================================================== Radeon R9 290 .. 105.49 |================================================== Radeon RX 460 .. 81.85 |======================================= Radeon RX 480 .. 112.26 |===================================================== Radeon R9 Fury . 114.36 |====================================================== Metro: Last Light Redux Resolution: 3840 x 2160 Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better Radeon R9 285 .. 25.90 |=================== Radeon R9 290 .. 45.69 |================================= Radeon RX 460 .. 15.52 |=========== Radeon RX 480 .. 55.13 |======================================== Radeon R9 Fury . 75.30 |======================================================= Portal Resolution: 1920 x 1080 Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better Radeon R9 285 .. 515.45 |===================================== Radeon R9 290 .. 580.89 |========================================== Radeon RX 460 .. 320.86 |======================= Radeon RX 480 .. 627.20 |============================================= Radeon R9 Fury . 750.84 |====================================================== Portal Resolution: 3840 x 2160 Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better Radeon R9 285 .. 174.51 |============================= Radeon R9 290 .. 210.33 |=================================== Radeon RX 460 .. 100.77 |================= Radeon RX 480 .. 232.22 |====================================== Radeon R9 Fury . 328.48 |====================================================== Team Fortress 2 Resolution: 1920 x 1080 Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better Radeon R9 285 .. 134.51 |====================================================== Radeon R9 290 .. 134.26 |====================================================== Radeon RX 460 .. 126.95 |=================================================== Radeon RX 480 .. 128.18 |=================================================== Radeon R9 Fury . 134.88 |====================================================== Team Fortress 2 Resolution: 3840 x 2160 Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better Radeon R9 285 .. 126.50 |==================================================== Radeon R9 290 .. 129.11 |===================================================== Radeon RX 460 .. 65.98 |=========================== Radeon RX 480 .. 125.05 |=================================================== Radeon R9 Fury . 131.40 |====================================================== The Talos Principle Renderer: OpenGL - Resolution: 1920 x 1080 Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better Radeon R9 285 .. 18.20 |=============================== Radeon R9 290 .. 25.80 |============================================ Radeon RX 460 .. 9.60 |================ Radeon RX 480 .. 19.97 |================================== Radeon R9 Fury . 32.50 |=======================================================