Desktop Comparison AMDGPU RadeonSI R9 Fury Tests for a future article. Unity: Processor: Intel Core i7-7700K @ 4.60GHz (8 Cores), Motherboard: MSI Z270-A PRO (MS-7A71) v1.0, Chipset: Intel Device 591f, Memory: 16384MB, Disk: Samsung SSD 950 PRO 256GB, Graphics: Sapphire AMD Radeon R9 FURY / NANO 4096MB, Audio: Realtek ALC892, Monitor: Acer B286HK, Network: Realtek RTL8111/8168/8411 OS: Ubuntu 16.10, Kernel: 4.10.0-041000-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 17.1.0-devel- padoka PPA Gallium 0.4 (LLVM 5.0.0), Vulkan: 1.0.21, Compiler: GCC 6.2.0 20161005, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 3840x2160 GNOME Shell 3.20.4: Processor: Intel Core i7-7700K @ 4.60GHz (8 Cores), Motherboard: MSI Z270-A PRO (MS-7A71) v1.0, Chipset: Intel Device 591f, Memory: 16384MB, Disk: Samsung SSD 950 PRO 256GB, Graphics: Sapphire AMD Radeon R9 FURY / NANO 4096MB, Audio: Realtek ALC892, Monitor: Acer B286HK, Network: Realtek RTL8111/8168/8411 OS: Ubuntu 16.10, Kernel: 4.10.0-041000-generic (x86_64), Desktop: GNOME Shell 3.20.4, Display Server: X Server 1.18.4, Display Driver: modesetting 1.18.4, OpenGL: 4.5 Mesa 17.1.0-devel- padoka PPA Gallium 0.4 (LLVM 5.0.0), Vulkan: 1.0.21, Compiler: GCC 6.2.0 20161005, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 3840x2160 KDE Plasma 5: Processor: Intel Core i7-7700K @ 4.60GHz (8 Cores), Motherboard: MSI Z270-A PRO (MS-7A71) v1.0, Chipset: Intel Device 591f, Memory: 16384MB, Disk: Samsung SSD 950 PRO 256GB, Graphics: Sapphire AMD Radeon R9 FURY / NANO 4096MB, Audio: Realtek ALC892, Monitor: Acer B286HK, Network: Realtek RTL8111/8168/8411 OS: Ubuntu 16.10, Kernel: 4.10.0-041000-generic (x86_64), Desktop: KDE Frameworks 5, Display Server: X Server 1.18.4, Display Driver: modesetting 1.18.4, OpenGL: 4.5 Mesa 17.1.0-devel- padoka PPA Gallium 0.4 (LLVM 5.0.0), Vulkan: 1.0.21, Compiler: GCC 6.2.0 20161005, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 3840x2160 Xfce: Processor: Intel Core i7-7700K @ 4.60GHz (8 Cores), Motherboard: MSI Z270-A PRO (MS-7A71) v1.0, Chipset: Intel Device 591f, Memory: 16384MB, Disk: Samsung SSD 950 PRO 256GB, Graphics: Sapphire AMD Radeon R9 FURY / NANO 4096MB, Audio: Realtek ALC892, Monitor: Acer B286HK, Network: Realtek RTL8111/8168/8411 OS: Ubuntu 16.10, Kernel: 4.10.0-041000-generic (x86_64), Desktop: Xfce 4.12, Display Server: X Server 1.18.4, Display Driver: modesetting 1.18.4, OpenGL: 4.5 Mesa 17.1.0-devel- padoka PPA Gallium 0.4 (LLVM 5.0.0), Vulkan: 1.0.21, Compiler: GCC 6.2.0 20161005, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 3840x2160 LXDE: Processor: Intel Core i7-7700K @ 4.60GHz (8 Cores), Motherboard: MSI Z270-A PRO (MS-7A71) v1.0, Chipset: Intel Device 591f, Memory: 16384MB, Disk: Samsung SSD 950 PRO 256GB, Graphics: Sapphire AMD Radeon R9 FURY / NANO 4096MB, Audio: Realtek ALC892, Monitor: Acer B286HK, Network: Realtek RTL8111/8168/8411 OS: Ubuntu 16.10, Kernel: 4.10.0-041000-generic (x86_64), Desktop: LXDE 0.8.2, Display Server: X Server 1.18.4, Display Driver: modesetting 1.18.4, OpenGL: 4.5 Mesa 17.1.0-devel- padoka PPA Gallium 0.4 (LLVM 5.0.0), Vulkan: 1.0.21, Compiler: GCC 6.2.0 20161005, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 3840x2160 MATE: Processor: Intel Core i7-7700K @ 4.60GHz (8 Cores), Motherboard: MSI Z270-A PRO (MS-7A71) v1.0, Chipset: Intel Device 591f, Memory: 16384MB, Disk: Samsung SSD 950 PRO 256GB, Graphics: Sapphire AMD Radeon R9 FURY / NANO 4096MB, Audio: Realtek ALC892, Monitor: Acer B286HK, Network: Realtek RTL8111/8168/8411 OS: Ubuntu 16.10, Kernel: 4.10.0-041000-generic (x86_64), Desktop: MATE 1.16.0, Display Server: X Server 1.18.4, Display Driver: modesetting 1.18.4, OpenGL: 4.5 Mesa 17.1.0-devel- padoka PPA Gallium 0.4 (LLVM 5.0.0), Vulkan: 1.0.21, Compiler: GCC 6.2.0 20161005, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 3840x2160 Openbox: Processor: Intel Core i7-7700K @ 4.60GHz (8 Cores), Motherboard: MSI Z270-A PRO (MS-7A71) v1.0, Chipset: Intel Device 591f, Memory: 16384MB, Disk: Samsung SSD 950 PRO 256GB, Graphics: Sapphire AMD Radeon R9 FURY / NANO 4096MB, Audio: Realtek ALC892, Monitor: Acer B286HK, Network: Realtek RTL8111/8168/8411 OS: Ubuntu 16.10, Kernel: 4.10.0-041000-generic (x86_64), Desktop: KDE Frameworks 5, Display Server: X Server 1.18.4, Display Driver: modesetting 1.18.4, OpenGL: 4.5 Mesa 17.1.0-devel- padoka PPA Gallium 0.4 (LLVM 5.0.0), Vulkan: 1.0.21, Compiler: GCC 6.2.0 20161005, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 3840x2160 Counter-Strike: Global Offensive Resolution: 3840 x 2160 Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better Unity .............. 139.57 |============================================== GNOME Shell 3.20.4 . 152.33 |================================================== KDE Plasma 5 ....... 152.30 |================================================== Xfce ............... 144.96 |=============================================== LXDE ............... 151.81 |================================================== MATE ............... 143.19 |=============================================== Openbox ............ 152.92 |================================================== Dota 2 Resolution: 3840 x 2160 - Renderer: OpenGL Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better Unity .............. 65.13 |============================================ GNOME Shell 3.20.4 . 65.28 |============================================ KDE Plasma 5 ....... 69.13 |=============================================== Xfce ............... 63.67 |=========================================== LXDE ............... 71.88 |================================================= MATE ............... 68.37 |============================================== Openbox ............ 75.50 |=================================================== Dota 2 Resolution: 3840 x 2160 - Renderer: Vulkan Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better Unity .............. 41.53 |======================================= GNOME Shell 3.20.4 . 35.80 |================================== KDE Plasma 5 ....... 44.27 |========================================== Xfce ............... 41.02 |======================================= LXDE ............... 54.13 |=================================================== MATE ............... 48.18 |============================================= Openbox ............ 54.17 |=================================================== ET: Legacy 2.75 Renderer: Renderer2 - Resolution: 3840 x 2160 Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better Unity .............. 221.90 |================================================== GNOME Shell 3.20.4 . 220.10 |================================================== KDE Plasma 5 ....... 222.27 |================================================== Xfce ............... 216.00 |================================================= LXDE ............... 222.30 |================================================== MATE ............... 213.03 |================================================ Openbox ............ 221.83 |================================================== HITMAN Resolution: 1920 x 1080 - Quality Level: Low Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better Unity .............. 94.83 |================================================== GNOME Shell 3.20.4 . 95.67 |=================================================== KDE Plasma 5 ....... 95.53 |=================================================== Xfce ............... 92.74 |================================================= LXDE ............... 95.23 |=================================================== MATE ............... 92.36 |================================================= Openbox ............ 95.79 |=================================================== HITMAN Resolution: 1920 x 1080 - Quality Level: Low - Total Frame Time Milliseconds < Lower Is Better Unity .............. MIN: 4 AVG: 11 MAX: 116 GNOME Shell 3.20.4 . MIN: 4 AVG: 10 MAX: 109 KDE Plasma 5 ....... MIN: 4 AVG: 10 MAX: 125 Xfce ............... MIN: 4 AVG: 11 MAX: 109 LXDE ............... MIN: 4 AVG: 11 MAX: 108 MATE ............... MIN: 4 AVG: 11 MAX: 126 Openbox ............ MIN: 5 AVG: 10 MAX: 106 Metro: Last Light Redux Resolution: 1920 x 1080 Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better Unity .............. 148.54 |================================================== GNOME Shell 3.20.4 . 146.23 |================================================= KDE Plasma 5 ....... 149.74 |================================================== Xfce ............... 146.02 |================================================= LXDE ............... 145.78 |================================================= MATE ............... 145.93 |================================================= Openbox ............ 149.16 |================================================== Portal Resolution: 3840 x 2160 Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better Unity .............. 323.23 |================================================= GNOME Shell 3.20.4 . 326.92 |================================================= KDE Plasma 5 ....... 301.74 |============================================== Xfce ............... 301.77 |============================================== LXDE ............... 329.89 |================================================== MATE ............... 284.25 |=========================================== Openbox ............ 330.36 |================================================== Tesseract 2014-05-12 Resolution: 3840 x 2160 Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better Unity .............. 180.34 |================================================== GNOME Shell 3.20.4 . 179.47 |================================================== KDE Plasma 5 ....... 174.17 |================================================ Xfce ............... 174.55 |================================================ LXDE ............... 179.78 |================================================== MATE ............... 168.81 |=============================================== Openbox ............ 175.58 |================================================= Team Fortress 2 Resolution: 3840 x 2160 Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better Unity ........ 154.93 |====================================================== KDE Plasma 5 . 158.47 |======================================================== Xfce ......... 159.65 |======================================================== LXDE ......... 159.16 |======================================================== MATE ......... 159.29 |======================================================== Openbox ...... 159.20 |======================================================== Xonotic 0.8 Resolution: 3840 x 2160 - Effects Quality: High Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better Unity .............. 289.60 |================================================= GNOME Shell 3.20.4 . 288.99 |================================================= KDE Plasma 5 ....... 289.50 |================================================= Xfce ............... 288.93 |================================================= LXDE ............... 292.57 |================================================== MATE ............... 286.65 |================================================= Openbox ............ 289.65 |==================================================