mikepc AMD FX-8320 Eight-Core testing with a ASUS M5A97 R2.0 and Sapphire AMD Radeon HD 7970/8970 OEM / R9 280X 3072MB on Arch Linux via the Phoronix Test Suite. mesa-test: Processor: AMD FX-8320 Eight-Core @ 3.40GHz (8 Cores), Motherboard: ASUS M5A97 R2.0, Chipset: AMD RD9x0/RX980, Memory: 24576MB, Disk: 3001GB Hitachi HDS72303 + 1000GB Western Digital WD1001FALS-0 + 32GB KingSpec KSD-SA2 + 3001GB WL3000GSA6472, Graphics: Sapphire AMD Radeon HD 7970/8970 OEM / R9 280X 3072MB, Audio: C-Media CMI8788, Monitor: 2060W3 + HZ194A, Network: Realtek RTL8111/8168/8411 OS: Arch Linux, Kernel: 4.9.2-1-zen (x86_64), Desktop: KDE Frameworks 5, OpenGL: 4.3 Mesa 13.0.4 Gallium 0.4, Vulkan: 1.0.39, Compiler: GCC 6.3.1 20170109 + Clang 3.9.1 + LLVM 3.9.1, File-System: btrfs, Screen Resolution: 3286x1080 Mesa: Processor: AMD FX-8320 Eight-Core @ 3.40GHz (8 Cores), Motherboard: ASUS M5A97 R2.0, Chipset: AMD RD9x0/RX980, Memory: 24576MB, Disk: 3001GB Hitachi HDS72303 + 1000GB Western Digital WD1001FALS-0 + 32GB KingSpec KSD-SA2 + 3001GB WL3000GSA6472, Graphics: Sapphire AMD Radeon HD 7970/8970 OEM / R9 280X 3072MB, Audio: C-Media CMI8788, Monitor: 2060W3 + HZ194A, Network: Realtek RTL8111/8168/8411 OS: Arch Linux, Kernel: 4.9.2-1-zen (x86_64), Desktop: KDE Frameworks 5, OpenGL: 4.3 Mesa 13.0.4 Gallium 0.4, Vulkan: 1.0.39, Compiler: GCC 6.3.1 20170109 + Clang 3.9.1 + LLVM 3.9.1, File-System: btrfs, Screen Resolution: 3286x1080 Nexuiz 2.5.2 3286 x 1080 Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better mesa-test . 121.80 |=========================================================== Mesa ...... 119.26 |========================================================== OpenArena 0.8.8 3286 x 1080 Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better mesa-test . 109.07 |========================================================= Mesa ...... 112.03 |=========================================================== OpenArena 0.8.8 3286 x 1080 - Total Frame Time Milliseconds < Lower Is Better mesa-test . MIN: 2.0 AVG: 8.9 MAX: 92.0 Mesa ...... MIN: 2.0 AVG: 8.8 MAX: 79.0 World of Padman 1.2 3286 x 1080 Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better mesa-test . 210.03 |=========================================================== Mesa ...... 211.17 |=========================================================== Urban Terror 4.2.013 3286 x 1080 Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better mesa-test . 72.87 |============================================================ Mesa ...... 73.27 |============================================================ Urban Terror 4.2.013 3286 x 1080 - Total Frame Time Milliseconds < Lower Is Better mesa-test . MIN: 1.0 AVG: 13.6 MAX: 52.0 Mesa ...... MIN: 1.0 AVG: 13.6 MAX: 52.0 Warsow 1.51 3286 x 1080 Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better mesa-test . 9.40 |============================================================= Mesa ...... 9.40 |=============================================================