AMD Kaveri A10-7850K Ubuntu 16.10 + Linux 4.10 AMD A10-7850K APU tests by Michael Larabel for a future article on Phoronix. fglrx 15.20.3: Processor: AMD A10-7850K APU with Radeon R7 @ 3.70GHz (4 Cores), Motherboard: Gigabyte F2A88XM-D3H, Chipset: AMD Family 15h, Memory: 7168MB, Disk: 120GB KINGSTON SV300S3, Graphics: AMD Radeon R7 1024MB, Audio: AMD Kaveri HDMI/DP, Monitor: G237HL, Network: Realtek RTL8111/8168/8411 OS: Ubuntu 16.04, Kernel: 4.4.0-6-generic (x86_64), Desktop: Unity 7.4.0, Display Driver: fglrx 15.20.3, OpenGL: 4.5.13399, Compiler: GCC 5.3.1 20160211, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 1920x1080 Linux 4.4 + Mesa 11.1: Processor: AMD A10-7850K APU with Radeon R7 @ 3.70GHz (4 Cores), Motherboard: Gigabyte F2A88XM-D3H, Chipset: AMD Family 15h, Memory: 7168MB, Disk: 120GB KINGSTON SV300S3, Graphics: AMD Radeon R7 1024MB, Audio: AMD Kaveri HDMI/DP, Monitor: G237HL, Network: Realtek RTL8111/8168/8411 OS: Ubuntu 16.04, Kernel: 4.4.0-6-generic (x86_64), Desktop: Unity 7.4.0, Display Driver: radeon 7.6.1, OpenGL: 4.1 Mesa 11.1.2 Gallium 0.4, Compiler: GCC 5.3.1 20160211, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 1920x1080 Linux 4.4 + Mesa 11.1 + DRI3: Processor: AMD A10-7850K APU with Radeon R7 @ 3.70GHz (4 Cores), Motherboard: Gigabyte F2A88XM-D3H, Chipset: AMD Family 15h, Memory: 7168MB, Disk: 120GB KINGSTON SV300S3, Graphics: AMD Radeon R7 1024MB, Audio: AMD Kaveri HDMI/DP, Monitor: G237HL, Network: Realtek RTL8111/8168/8411 OS: Ubuntu 16.04, Kernel: 4.4.0-6-generic (x86_64), Desktop: Unity 7.4.0, Display Driver: radeon 7.6.1, OpenGL: 4.1 Mesa 11.1.2 Gallium 0.4, Compiler: GCC 5.3.1 20160211, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 1920x1080 Linux 4.5 + Mesa 11.1 + DRI3: Processor: AMD A10-7850K APU with Radeon R7 @ 3.70GHz (4 Cores), Motherboard: Gigabyte F2A88XM-D3H, Chipset: AMD Family 15h, Memory: 7168MB, Disk: 120GB KINGSTON SV300S3, Graphics: AMD Radeon R7 1024MB, Audio: AMD Kaveri HDMI/DP, Monitor: G237HL, Network: Realtek RTL8111/8168/8411 OS: Ubuntu 16.04, Kernel: 4.5.0-999-generic (x86_64) 20160220, Desktop: Unity 7.4.0, Display Driver: radeon 7.6.1, OpenGL: 4.1 Mesa 11.1.2 Gallium 0.4, Compiler: GCC 5.3.1 20160211, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 1920x1080 Linux 4.5 + Mesa 11.2 + DRI3: Processor: AMD A10-7850K APU with Radeon R7 @ 3.70GHz (4 Cores), Motherboard: Gigabyte F2A88XM-D3H, Chipset: AMD Family 15h, Memory: 7168MB, Disk: 120GB KINGSTON SV300S3, Graphics: AMD Radeon R7 1024MB, Audio: AMD Kaveri HDMI/DP, Monitor: G237HL, Network: Realtek RTL8111/8168/8411 OS: Ubuntu 16.04, Kernel: 4.5.0-999-generic (x86_64) 20160220, Desktop: Unity 7.4.0, Display Driver: radeon 7.6.1, OpenGL: 4.1 Mesa 11.2.0-devel (git-3c9ed20 2016-02-21 xenial-oibaf-ppa) Gallium 0.4, Compiler: GCC 5.3.1 20160211, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 1920x1080 Ubuntu 16.10 - Mesa 13.1-dev + Linux 4.10: Processor: AMD A10-7850K APU with Radeon R7 @ 3.70GHz (4 Cores), Motherboard: Gigabyte F2A88XM-D3H, Chipset: AMD Family 15h, Memory: 7168MB, Disk: 120GB KINGSTON SV300S3, Graphics: AMD Radeon R7 1024MB, Audio: AMD Kaveri HDMI/DP, Monitor: DELL S2409W, Network: Realtek RTL8111/8168/8411 OS: Ubuntu 16.10, Kernel: 4.10.0-999-generic (x86_64) 20170104, 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: 1.0.3, Compiler: GCC 6.2.0 20161005, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 1920x1080 OpenArena 0.8.8 Resolution: 1920 x 1080 Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better fglrx 15.20.3 ............................. 54.20 |============================ Linux 4.4 + Mesa 11.1 ..................... 42.97 |====================== Linux 4.4 + Mesa 11.1 + DRI3 .............. 42.97 |====================== Linux 4.5 + Mesa 11.1 + DRI3 .............. 42.97 |====================== Linux 4.5 + Mesa 11.2 + DRI3 .............. 42.57 |====================== Ubuntu 16.10 - Mesa 13.1-dev + Linux 4.10 . 44.30 |======================= OpenArena 0.8.8 Resolution: 1920 x 1080 - Total Frame Time Milliseconds < Lower Is Better fglrx 15.20.3 ............................. MIN: 2.0 AVG: 18.4 MAX: 56.0 Linux 4.4 + Mesa 11.1 ..................... MIN: 15.0 AVG: 23.2 MAX: 54.0 Linux 4.4 + Mesa 11.1 + DRI3 .............. MIN: 4.0 AVG: 23.2 MAX: 54.0 Linux 4.5 + Mesa 11.1 + DRI3 .............. MIN: 5.0 AVG: 23.2 MAX: 55.0 Linux 4.5 + Mesa 11.2 + DRI3 .............. MIN: 4.0 AVG: 23.2 MAX: 54.0 Ubuntu 16.10 - Mesa 13.1-dev + Linux 4.10 . MIN: 5.0 AVG: 22.5 MAX: 71.0 Tesseract 2014-05-12 Resolution: 1920 x 1080 Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better fglrx 15.20.3 ............................. 63.36 |============================ Linux 4.4 + Mesa 11.1 ..................... 53.05 |======================= Linux 4.4 + Mesa 11.1 + DRI3 .............. 53.21 |======================== Linux 4.5 + Mesa 11.1 + DRI3 .............. 53.24 |======================== Linux 4.5 + Mesa 11.2 + DRI3 .............. 54.52 |======================== Ubuntu 16.10 - Mesa 13.1-dev + Linux 4.10 . 59.67 |========================== Xonotic 0.8 Resolution: 1920 x 1080 - Effects Quality: Low Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better fglrx 15.20.3 ............................. 193.41 |=========================== Linux 4.4 + Mesa 11.1 ..................... 158.39 |====================== Linux 4.4 + Mesa 11.1 + DRI3 .............. 170.41 |======================== Linux 4.5 + Mesa 11.1 + DRI3 .............. 170.80 |======================== Linux 4.5 + Mesa 11.2 + DRI3 .............. 171.57 |======================== Ubuntu 16.10 - Mesa 13.1-dev + Linux 4.10 . 176.20 |========================= Xonotic 0.8 Resolution: 1920 x 1080 - Effects Quality: High Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better fglrx 15.20.3 ............................. 129.00 |=========================== Linux 4.4 + Mesa 11.1 ..................... 86.81 |================== Linux 4.4 + Mesa 11.1 + DRI3 .............. 89.09 |=================== Linux 4.5 + Mesa 11.1 + DRI3 .............. 89.21 |=================== Linux 4.5 + Mesa 11.2 + DRI3 .............. 90.14 |=================== Ubuntu 16.10 - Mesa 13.1-dev + Linux 4.10 . 108.73 |======================= Xonotic 0.8 Resolution: 1920 x 1080 - Effects Quality: Ultra Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better fglrx 15.20.3 ............................. 108.02 |=========================== Linux 4.4 + Mesa 11.1 ..................... 74.16 |=================== Linux 4.4 + Mesa 11.1 + DRI3 .............. 76.07 |=================== Linux 4.5 + Mesa 11.1 + DRI3 .............. 75.56 |=================== Linux 4.5 + Mesa 11.2 + DRI3 .............. 76.08 |=================== Ubuntu 16.10 - Mesa 13.1-dev + Linux 4.10 . 92.49 |======================= Xonotic 0.8 Resolution: 1920 x 1080 - Effects Quality: Ultimate Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better fglrx 15.20.3 ............................. 76.70 |============================ Linux 4.4 + Mesa 11.1 ..................... 55.86 |==================== Linux 4.4 + Mesa 11.1 + DRI3 .............. 56.75 |===================== Linux 4.5 + Mesa 11.1 + DRI3 .............. 56.77 |===================== Linux 4.5 + Mesa 11.2 + DRI3 .............. 56.94 |===================== Ubuntu 16.10 - Mesa 13.1-dev + Linux 4.10 . 68.06 |========================= GpuTest 0.7.0 Test: GiMark - Resolution: 1920 x 1080 - Mode: Fullscreen Points > Higher Is Better fglrx 15.20.3 . 780 |========================================================== GpuTest 0.7.0 Test: Plot3D - Resolution: 1920 x 1080 - Mode: Fullscreen Points > Higher Is Better fglrx 15.20.3 ............................. 18761 |============================ Linux 4.4 + Mesa 11.1 ..................... 10039 |=============== Linux 4.4 + Mesa 11.1 + DRI3 .............. 10039 |=============== Linux 4.5 + Mesa 11.1 + DRI3 .............. 10040 |=============== Linux 4.5 + Mesa 11.2 + DRI3 .............. 10060 |=============== Ubuntu 16.10 - Mesa 13.1-dev + Linux 4.10 . 11663 |================= GpuTest 0.7.0 Test: Furmark - Resolution: 1920 x 1080 - Mode: Fullscreen Points > Higher Is Better fglrx 15.20.3 ............................. 580 |============================= Linux 4.4 + Mesa 11.1 ..................... 482 |======================== Linux 4.5 + Mesa 11.1 + DRI3 .............. 393 |==================== Ubuntu 16.10 - Mesa 13.1-dev + Linux 4.10 . 593 |==============================