Mesa 11.1 To 17.1 Git Progress AMD Radeon Mesa RadeonSI Gallium3D benchmarks. Tests by Michael Larabel for a future article on Phoronix. Mesa history. Mesa 11.1.4: R9 285: Processor: AMD Ryzen 7 1800X Eight-Core @ 3.60GHz (16 Cores), Motherboard: MSI X370 XPOWER GAMING TITANIUM (MS-7A31) v1.0, Chipset: AMD Device 1450, Memory: 16384MB, Disk: 256GB INTEL SSDPEKKW256G7, Graphics: XFX AMD Radeon R9 285/380 2048MB, Audio: AMD Tonga HDMI Audio, Monitor: Acer B286HK, Network: Intel I211 Gigabit Connection OS: Ubuntu 16.10, Kernel: 4.11.0-999-generic (x86_64) 20170315, Desktop: Unity 7.5.0, Display Server: X Server 1.18.4, Display Driver: modesetting 1.18.4, OpenGL: 4.1 Mesa 11.1.4 (git-c0eef17) Gallium 0.4 (LLVM 3.7.1), Vulkan: 1.0.21, Compiler: GCC 6.2.0 20161005, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 3840x2160 Mesa 11.1.4: R9 Fury: Processor: AMD Ryzen 7 1800X Eight-Core @ 3.60GHz (16 Cores), Motherboard: MSI X370 XPOWER GAMING TITANIUM (MS-7A31) v1.0, Chipset: AMD Device 1450, Memory: 16384MB, Disk: 256GB INTEL SSDPEKKW256G7, Graphics: Sapphire AMD Radeon R9 FURY / NANO 4096MB, Audio: AMD Fiji HDMI/DP, Monitor: Acer B286HK, Network: Intel I211 Gigabit Connection OS: Ubuntu 16.10, Kernel: 4.11.0-999-generic (x86_64) 20170315, Desktop: Unity 7.5.0, Display Server: X Server 1.18.4, Display Driver: modesetting 1.18.4, OpenGL: 4.1 Mesa 11.1.4 (git-c0eef17) Gallium 0.4 (LLVM 3.7.1), Vulkan: 1.0.21, Compiler: GCC 6.2.0 20161005, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 3840x2160 Mesa 11.2.2: R9 285: Processor: AMD Ryzen 7 1800X Eight-Core @ 3.60GHz (16 Cores), Motherboard: MSI X370 XPOWER GAMING TITANIUM (MS-7A31) v1.0, Chipset: AMD Device 1450, Memory: 16384MB, Disk: 256GB INTEL SSDPEKKW256G7, Graphics: XFX AMD Radeon R9 285/380 2048MB, Audio: AMD Tonga HDMI Audio, Monitor: Acer B286HK, Network: Intel I211 Gigabit Connection OS: Ubuntu 16.10, Kernel: 4.11.0-999-generic (x86_64) 20170315, Desktop: Unity 7.5.0, Display Server: X Server 1.18.4, Display Driver: modesetting 1.18.4, OpenGL: 4.1 Mesa 11.2.2 (git-5de088f) Gallium 0.4 (LLVM 3.8.1), Vulkan: 1.0.21, Compiler: GCC 6.2.0 20161005, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 3840x2160 Mesa 11.2.2: R9 Fury: Processor: AMD Ryzen 7 1800X Eight-Core @ 3.60GHz (16 Cores), Motherboard: MSI X370 XPOWER GAMING TITANIUM (MS-7A31) v1.0, Chipset: AMD Device 1450, Memory: 16384MB, Disk: 256GB INTEL SSDPEKKW256G7, Graphics: Sapphire AMD Radeon R9 FURY / NANO 4096MB, Audio: AMD Fiji HDMI/DP, Monitor: Acer B286HK, Network: Intel I211 Gigabit Connection OS: Ubuntu 16.10, Kernel: 4.11.0-999-generic (x86_64) 20170315, Desktop: Unity 7.5.0, Display Server: X Server 1.18.4, Display Driver: modesetting 1.18.4, OpenGL: 4.1 Mesa 11.2.2 (git-5de088f) Gallium 0.4 (LLVM 3.8.1), Vulkan: 1.0.21, Compiler: GCC 6.2.0 20161005, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 3840x2160 Mesa 12.0.6: R9 285: Processor: AMD Ryzen 7 1800X Eight-Core @ 3.60GHz (16 Cores), Motherboard: MSI X370 XPOWER GAMING TITANIUM (MS-7A31) v1.0, Chipset: AMD Device 1450, Memory: 16384MB, Disk: 256GB INTEL SSDPEKKW256G7, Graphics: XFX AMD Radeon R9 285/380 2048MB, Audio: AMD Tonga HDMI Audio, Monitor: Acer B286HK, Network: Intel I211 Gigabit Connection OS: Ubuntu 16.10, Kernel: 4.11.0-999-generic (x86_64) 20170315, Desktop: Unity 7.5.0, Display Server: X Server 1.18.4, Display Driver: modesetting 1.18.4, OpenGL: 4.3 Mesa 12.0.6 (git-13953f0) Gallium 0.4 (LLVM 3.9.0), Vulkan: 1.0.21, Compiler: GCC 6.2.0 20161005, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 3840x2160 Mesa 12.0.6: R9 Fury: Processor: AMD Ryzen 7 1800X Eight-Core @ 3.60GHz (16 Cores), Motherboard: MSI X370 XPOWER GAMING TITANIUM (MS-7A31) v1.0, Chipset: AMD Device 1450, Memory: 16384MB, Disk: 256GB INTEL SSDPEKKW256G7, Graphics: Sapphire AMD Radeon R9 FURY / NANO 4096MB, Audio: AMD Fiji HDMI/DP, Monitor: Acer B286HK, Network: Intel I211 Gigabit Connection OS: Ubuntu 16.10, Kernel: 4.11.0-999-generic (x86_64) 20170315, Desktop: Unity 7.5.0, Display Server: X Server 1.18.4, Display Driver: modesetting 1.18.4, OpenGL: 4.3 Mesa 12.0.6 (git-13953f0) Gallium 0.4 (LLVM 3.9.0), Vulkan: 1.0.21, Compiler: GCC 6.2.0 20161005, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 3840x2160 Mesa 13.0.5: R9 285: Processor: AMD Ryzen 7 1800X Eight-Core @ 3.60GHz (16 Cores), Motherboard: MSI X370 XPOWER GAMING TITANIUM (MS-7A31) v1.0, Chipset: AMD Device 1450, Memory: 16384MB, Disk: 256GB INTEL SSDPEKKW256G7, Graphics: XFX AMD Radeon R9 285/380 2048MB, Audio: AMD Tonga HDMI Audio, Monitor: Acer B286HK, Network: Intel I211 Gigabit Connection OS: Ubuntu 16.10, Kernel: 4.11.0-999-generic (x86_64) 20170315, Desktop: Unity 7.5.0, Display Server: X Server 1.18.4, Display Driver: modesetting 1.18.4, OpenGL: 4.3 Mesa 13.0.5 (git-3b782f6) Gallium 0.4 (LLVM 3.9.0), Vulkan: 1.0.21, Compiler: GCC 6.2.0 20161005, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 3840x2160 Mesa 13.0.5: R9 Fury: Processor: AMD Ryzen 7 1800X Eight-Core @ 3.60GHz (16 Cores), Motherboard: MSI X370 XPOWER GAMING TITANIUM (MS-7A31) v1.0, Chipset: AMD Device 1450, Memory: 16384MB, Disk: 256GB INTEL SSDPEKKW256G7, Graphics: Sapphire AMD Radeon R9 FURY / NANO 4096MB, Audio: AMD Fiji HDMI/DP, Monitor: Acer B286HK, Network: Intel I211 Gigabit Connection OS: Ubuntu 16.10, Kernel: 4.11.0-999-generic (x86_64) 20170315, Desktop: Unity 7.5.0, Display Server: X Server 1.18.4, Display Driver: modesetting 1.18.4, OpenGL: 4.3 Mesa 13.0.5 (git-3b782f6) Gallium 0.4 (LLVM 3.9.0), Vulkan: 1.0.21, Compiler: GCC 6.2.0 20161005, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 3840x2160 Mesa 17.0.1: R9 285: Processor: AMD Ryzen 7 1800X Eight-Core @ 3.60GHz (16 Cores), Motherboard: MSI X370 XPOWER GAMING TITANIUM (MS-7A31) v1.0, Chipset: AMD Device 1450, Memory: 16384MB, Disk: 256GB INTEL SSDPEKKW256G7, Graphics: XFX AMD Radeon R9 285/380 2048MB, Audio: AMD Tonga HDMI Audio, Monitor: Acer B286HK, Network: Intel I211 Gigabit Connection OS: Ubuntu 16.10, Kernel: 4.11.0-999-generic (x86_64) 20170315, Desktop: Unity 7.5.0, Display Server: X Server 1.18.4, Display Driver: modesetting 1.18.4, OpenGL: 4.5 Mesa 17.0.1 (git-5c92731) Gallium 0.4 (LLVM 4.0.0), Vulkan: 1.0.21, Compiler: GCC 6.2.0 20161005, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 3840x2160 Mesa 17.0.1: R9 Fury: Processor: AMD Ryzen 7 1800X Eight-Core @ 3.60GHz (16 Cores), Motherboard: MSI X370 XPOWER GAMING TITANIUM (MS-7A31) v1.0, Chipset: AMD Device 1450, Memory: 16384MB, Disk: 256GB INTEL SSDPEKKW256G7, Graphics: Sapphire AMD Radeon R9 FURY / NANO 4096MB, Audio: AMD Fiji HDMI/DP, Monitor: Acer B286HK, Network: Intel I211 Gigabit Connection OS: Ubuntu 16.10, Kernel: 4.11.0-999-generic (x86_64) 20170315, Desktop: Unity 7.5.0, Display Server: X Server 1.18.4, Display Driver: modesetting 1.18.4, OpenGL: 4.5 Mesa 17.0.1 (git-5c92731) Gallium 0.4 (LLVM 4.0.0), Vulkan: 1.0.21, Compiler: GCC 6.2.0 20161005, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 3840x2160 Mesa 17.1-dev: R9 285: Processor: AMD Ryzen 7 1800X Eight-Core @ 3.60GHz (16 Cores), Motherboard: MSI X370 XPOWER GAMING TITANIUM (MS-7A31) v1.0, Chipset: AMD Device 1450, Memory: 16384MB, Disk: 256GB INTEL SSDPEKKW256G7, Graphics: XFX AMD Radeon R9 285/380 2048MB, Audio: AMD Tonga HDMI Audio, Monitor: Acer B286HK, Network: Intel I211 Gigabit Connection OS: Ubuntu 16.10, Kernel: 4.11.0-999-generic (x86_64) 20170315, 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 (git-ce4058d) Gallium 0.4 (LLVM 4.0.0), Vulkan: 1.0.21, Compiler: GCC 6.2.0 20161005, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 3840x2160 Mesa 17.1-dev: R9 Fury: Processor: AMD Ryzen 7 1800X Eight-Core @ 3.60GHz (16 Cores), Motherboard: MSI X370 XPOWER GAMING TITANIUM (MS-7A31) v1.0, Chipset: AMD Device 1450, Memory: 16384MB, Disk: 256GB INTEL SSDPEKKW256G7, Graphics: Sapphire AMD Radeon R9 FURY / NANO 4096MB, Audio: AMD Fiji HDMI/DP, Monitor: Acer B286HK, Network: Intel I211 Gigabit Connection OS: Ubuntu 16.10, Kernel: 4.11.0-999-generic (x86_64) 20170315, 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 (git-ce4058d) Gallium 0.4 (LLVM 4.0.0), Vulkan: 1.0.21, Compiler: GCC 6.2.0 20161005, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 3840x2160 Civilization VI Quality: Lowest - Resolution: 1920 x 1080 Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better Mesa 11.1.4: R9 285 .... 15.42 |================================ Mesa 11.1.4: R9 Fury ... 12.61 |=========================== Mesa 11.2.2: R9 285 .... 15.75 |================================= Mesa 11.2.2: R9 Fury ... 16.30 |================================== Mesa 12.0.6: R9 285 .... 19.38 |========================================= Mesa 12.0.6: R9 Fury ... 19.32 |========================================= Mesa 13.0.5: R9 285 .... 20.93 |============================================ Mesa 13.0.5: R9 Fury ... 21.38 |============================================= Mesa 17.0.1: R9 285 .... 20.95 |============================================ Mesa 17.0.1: R9 Fury ... 20.83 |============================================ Mesa 17.1-dev: R9 285 .. 22.19 |=============================================== Mesa 17.1-dev: R9 Fury . 22.31 |=============================================== Civilization VI Quality: Lowest - Resolution: 1920 x 1080 - Total Frame Time Milliseconds < Lower Is Better Mesa 11.1.4: R9 285 .... MIN: 29 AVG: 65 MAX: 229 Mesa 11.1.4: R9 Fury ... MIN: 32 AVG: 79 MAX: 235 Mesa 11.2.2: R9 285 .... MIN: 31 AVG: 64 MAX: 215 Mesa 11.2.2: R9 Fury ... MIN: 28 AVG: 62 MAX: 210 Mesa 12.0.6: R9 285 .... MIN: 23 AVG: 51 MAX: 218 Mesa 12.0.6: R9 Fury ... MIN: 23 AVG: 52 MAX: 216 Mesa 13.0.5: R9 285 .... MIN: 22 AVG: 49 MAX: 428 Mesa 13.0.5: R9 Fury ... MIN: 21 AVG: 47 MAX: 411 Mesa 17.0.1: R9 285 .... MIN: 20 AVG: 48 MAX: 226 Mesa 17.0.1: R9 Fury ... MIN: 21 AVG: 49 MAX: 416 Mesa 17.1-dev: R9 285 .. MIN: 20 AVG: 45 MAX: 138 Mesa 17.1-dev: R9 Fury . MIN: 20 AVG: 44 MAX: 183 Counter-Strike: Global Offensive Resolution: 3840 x 2160 Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better Mesa 11.1.4: R9 285 .... 55.43 |=================== Mesa 11.1.4: R9 Fury ... 99.80 |================================== Mesa 11.2.2: R9 285 .... 54.60 |================== Mesa 11.2.2: R9 Fury ... 113.80 |====================================== Mesa 12.0.6: R9 285 .... 63.64 |====================== Mesa 12.0.6: R9 Fury ... 136.04 |============================================== Mesa 13.0.5: R9 285 .... 61.92 |===================== Mesa 13.0.5: R9 Fury ... 123.68 |========================================== Mesa 17.0.1: R9 285 .... 67.08 |======================= Mesa 17.0.1: R9 Fury ... 134.99 |============================================== Mesa 17.1-dev: R9 285 .. 72.78 |========================= Mesa 17.1-dev: R9 Fury . 132.80 |============================================= Deus Ex: Mankind Divided Preset: 1920 x 1080 - Low Quality Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better Mesa 11.2.2: R9 285 .... 13.20 |============ Mesa 11.2.2: R9 Fury ... 16.23 |=============== Mesa 12.0.6: R9 285 .... 11.60 |=========== Mesa 12.0.6: R9 Fury ... 15.63 |============== Mesa 13.0.5: R9 285 .... 13.53 |============ Mesa 13.0.5: R9 Fury ... 17.07 |================ Mesa 17.0.1: R9 285 .... 32.83 |============================== Mesa 17.0.1: R9 Fury ... 50.93 |=============================================== Mesa 17.1-dev: R9 285 .. 39.13 |==================================== Mesa 17.1-dev: R9 Fury . 50.47 |=============================================== Deus Ex: Mankind Divided Preset: 2560 x 1440 - High Quality Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better Mesa 11.2.2: R9 285 .... 6.10 |======= Mesa 12.0.6: R9 285 .... 5.33 |======= Mesa 12.0.6: R9 Fury ... 9.00 |=========== Mesa 13.0.5: R9 285 .... 6.07 |======= Mesa 13.0.5: R9 Fury ... 9.60 |============ Mesa 17.0.1: R9 285 .... 10.57 |============= Mesa 17.0.1: R9 Fury ... 38.27 |=============================================== Mesa 17.1-dev: R9 285 .. 11.10 |============== Mesa 17.1-dev: R9 Fury . 37.87 |=============================================== Dota 2 Resolution: 3840 x 2160 - Renderer: OpenGL Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better Mesa 11.1.4: R9 285 .... 16.67 |=========== Mesa 11.1.4: R9 Fury ... 29.63 |=================== Mesa 11.2.2: R9 285 .... 16.47 |========== Mesa 11.2.2: R9 Fury ... 43.50 |============================ Mesa 12.0.6: R9 285 .... 29.40 |=================== Mesa 12.0.6: R9 Fury ... 64.63 |========================================= Mesa 13.0.5: R9 285 .... 28.23 |================== Mesa 13.0.5: R9 Fury ... 66.20 |========================================== Mesa 17.0.1: R9 285 .... 31.75 |==================== Mesa 17.0.1: R9 Fury ... 71.17 |============================================= Mesa 17.1-dev: R9 285 .. 35.83 |======================= Mesa 17.1-dev: R9 Fury . 74.07 |=============================================== ET: Legacy 2.75 Renderer: Renderer2 - Resolution: 3840 x 2160 Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better Mesa 11.1.4: R9 285 .... 45.53 |============= Mesa 11.1.4: R9 Fury ... 54.10 |================ Mesa 11.2.2: R9 285 .... 47.07 |============== Mesa 11.2.2: R9 Fury ... 57.57 |================= Mesa 12.0.6: R9 285 .... 57.97 |================= Mesa 12.0.6: R9 Fury ... 80.27 |======================= Mesa 13.0.5: R9 285 .... 75.18 |====================== Mesa 13.0.5: R9 Fury ... 123.43 |=================================== Mesa 17.0.1: R9 285 .... 84.75 |======================== Mesa 17.0.1: R9 Fury ... 159.30 |============================================== Mesa 17.1-dev: R9 285 .. 90.98 |========================== Mesa 17.1-dev: R9 Fury . 160.33 |============================================== HITMAN Resolution: 1920 x 1080 - Quality Level: Medium Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better Mesa 12.0.6: R9 285 .... 21.22 |================= Mesa 12.0.6: R9 Fury ... 54.90 |============================================ Mesa 13.0.5: R9 285 .... 34.51 |=========================== Mesa 13.0.5: R9 Fury ... 58.20 |============================================== Mesa 17.0.1: R9 285 .... 39.13 |=============================== Mesa 17.0.1: R9 Fury ... 59.01 |=============================================== Mesa 17.1-dev: R9 285 .. 42.88 |================================== Mesa 17.1-dev: R9 Fury . 58.39 |=============================================== HITMAN Resolution: 1920 x 1080 - Quality Level: Medium - Total Frame Time Milliseconds < Lower Is Better Mesa 12.0.6: R9 285 .... MIN: 8 AVG: 47 MAX: 1923 Mesa 12.0.6: R9 Fury ... MIN: 8 AVG: 18 MAX: 1754 Mesa 13.0.5: R9 285 .... MIN: 8 AVG: 29 MAX: 234 Mesa 13.0.5: R9 Fury ... MIN: 7 AVG: 17 MAX: 161 Mesa 17.0.1: R9 285 .... MIN: 7 AVG: 26 MAX: 323 Mesa 17.0.1: R9 Fury ... MIN: 7 AVG: 17 MAX: 154 Mesa 17.1-dev: R9 285 .. MIN: 6 AVG: 23 MAX: 1370 Mesa 17.1-dev: R9 Fury . MIN: 7 AVG: 17 MAX: 1087 Metro: Last Light Redux Resolution: 1920 x 1080 Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better Mesa 11.1.4: R9 285 .... 42.89 |=================== Mesa 11.1.4: R9 Fury ... 52.15 |======================== Mesa 11.2.2: R9 285 .... 44.49 |==================== Mesa 11.2.2: R9 Fury ... 54.44 |========================= Mesa 12.0.6: R9 285 .... 57.29 |========================== Mesa 12.0.6: R9 Fury ... 64.86 |============================= Mesa 13.0.5: R9 285 .... 92.19 |========================================== Mesa 13.0.5: R9 Fury ... 97.87 |============================================ Mesa 17.0.1: R9 285 .... 95.04 |=========================================== Mesa 17.0.1: R9 Fury ... 98.03 |============================================= Mesa 17.1-dev: R9 285 .. 96.38 |============================================ Mesa 17.1-dev: R9 Fury . 101.29 |============================================== Tesseract 2014-05-12 Resolution: 3840 x 2160 Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better Mesa 11.1.4: R9 285 .... 64.69 |=============== Mesa 11.1.4: R9 Fury ... 152.32 |=================================== Mesa 11.2.2: R9 285 .... 65.30 |=============== Mesa 11.2.2: R9 Fury ... 156.36 |==================================== Mesa 12.0.6: R9 285 .... 63.48 |=============== Mesa 12.0.6: R9 Fury ... 150.91 |=================================== Mesa 13.0.5: R9 285 .... 122.62 |============================ Mesa 13.0.5: R9 Fury ... 199.05 |============================================== Mesa 17.0.1: R9 285 .... 118.50 |=========================== Mesa 17.0.1: R9 Fury ... 192.83 |============================================= Mesa 17.1-dev: R9 285 .. 121.89 |============================ Mesa 17.1-dev: R9 Fury . 197.82 |============================================== Xonotic 0.8 Resolution: 3840 x 2160 - Effects Quality: Ultimate Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better Mesa 11.1.4: R9 285 .... 73.80 |================== Mesa 11.1.4: R9 Fury ... 136.78 |================================= Mesa 11.2.2: R9 285 .... 74.21 |================== Mesa 11.2.2: R9 Fury ... 137.23 |================================= Mesa 12.0.6: R9 285 .... 72.07 |================= Mesa 12.0.6: R9 Fury ... 138.05 |================================= Mesa 13.0.5: R9 285 .... 92.76 |====================== Mesa 13.0.5: R9 Fury ... 189.12 |============================================== Mesa 17.0.1: R9 285 .... 105.70 |========================= Mesa 17.0.1: R9 Fury ... 188.91 |============================================= Mesa 17.1-dev: R9 285 .. 109.50 |========================== Mesa 17.1-dev: R9 Fury . 191.07 |==============================================