Radeon DRM Linux 3.3 Performance Benchmarks of the Radeon Linux kernel DRM from Linux 3.2, 3.3 (latest Git; near-final), and drm-next (Linux 3.4) kernels. Using a Radeon HD 6950 Cayman and Radeon HD 5770 cards for testing. Also using Mesa 8.1-devel and xf86-video-ati Git DDX as of date of testing (14 March). Swap buffers wait was disabled, rest of the stuff at stock settings. Linux benchmarking for a future article on Phoronix. Radeon HD 5770: Linux 3.2: Processor: Intel Core i7-3960X @ 3.20GHz (12 Cores), Motherboard: Intel DX79SI, Chipset: Intel Sandy DMI2, Memory: 16384MB, Disk: 240GB OCZ VERTEX3, Graphics: AMD Radeon HD 5700 1024MB, Audio: Realtek ALC892, Monitor: DELL P2210H, Network: Intel 82579LM Gigabit Connection OS: Ubuntu 12.04, Kernel: 3.2.0-030200-generic (x86_64), Desktop: Unity 5.4.0, Display Server: X Server 1.11.3, Display Driver: radeon 6.14.99, OpenGL: 2.1 Mesa 8.1-devel (git-99cd475) Gallium 0.4, Compiler: GCC 4.6, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 1920x1080 Radeon HD 5770: Linux 3.3: Processor: Intel Core i7-3960X @ 3.20GHz (12 Cores), Motherboard: Intel DX79SI, Chipset: Intel Sandy DMI2, Memory: 16384MB, Disk: 240GB OCZ VERTEX3, Graphics: AMD Radeon HD 5700 1024MB, Audio: Realtek ALC892, Monitor: DELL P2210H, Network: Intel 82579LM Gigabit Connection OS: Ubuntu 12.04, Kernel: 3.3.0-999-generic (x86_64), Desktop: Unity 5.4.0, Display Server: X Server 1.11.3, Display Driver: radeon 6.14.99, OpenGL: 2.1 Mesa 8.1-devel (git-99cd475) Gallium 0.4, Compiler: GCC 4.6, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 1920x1080 Radeon HD 5770: drm-next: Processor: Intel Core i7-3960X @ 3.20GHz (12 Cores), Motherboard: Intel DX79SI, Chipset: Intel Sandy DMI2, Memory: 16384MB, Disk: 240GB OCZ VERTEX3, Graphics: AMD Radeon HD 5700 1024MB, Audio: Realtek ALC892, Monitor: DELL P2210H, Network: Intel 82579LM Gigabit Connection OS: Ubuntu 12.04, Kernel: 3.3.0-996-generic (x86_64), Desktop: Unity 5.4.0, Display Server: X Server 1.11.3, Display Driver: radeon 6.14.99, OpenGL: 2.1 Mesa 8.1-devel (git-99cd475) Gallium 0.4, Compiler: GCC 4.6, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 1920x1080 Radeon HD 6950: Linux 3.2: Processor: Intel Core i7-3960X @ 3.20GHz (12 Cores), Motherboard: Intel DX79SI, Chipset: Intel Sandy DMI2, Memory: 16384MB, Disk: 240GB OCZ VERTEX3, Graphics: AMD Radeon HD 6950 2048MB, Audio: Realtek ALC892, Monitor: DELL P2210H, Network: Intel 82579LM Gigabit Connection OS: Ubuntu 12.04, Kernel: 3.2.0-030200-generic (x86_64), Desktop: Unity 5.4.0, Display Server: X Server 1.11.3, Display Driver: radeon 6.14.99, OpenGL: 2.1 Mesa 8.1-devel (git-99cd475) Gallium 0.4, Compiler: GCC 4.6, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 1920x1080 Radeon HD 6950: Linux 3.3: Processor: Intel Core i7-3960X @ 3.20GHz (12 Cores), Motherboard: Intel DX79SI, Chipset: Intel Sandy DMI2, Memory: 16384MB, Disk: 240GB OCZ VERTEX3, Graphics: AMD Radeon HD 6950 2048MB, Audio: Realtek ALC892, Monitor: DELL P2210H, Network: Intel 82579LM Gigabit Connection OS: Ubuntu 12.04, Kernel: 3.3.0-999-generic (x86_64), Desktop: Unity 5.4.0, Display Server: X Server 1.11.3, Display Driver: radeon 6.14.99, OpenGL: 2.1 Mesa 8.1-devel (git-99cd475) Gallium 0.4, Compiler: GCC 4.6, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 1920x1080 Radeon HD 6950: drm-next: Processor: Intel Core i7-3960X @ 3.20GHz (12 Cores), Motherboard: Intel DX79SI, Chipset: Intel Sandy DMI2, Memory: 16384MB, Disk: 240GB OCZ VERTEX3, Graphics: AMD Radeon HD 6950 2048MB, Audio: Realtek ALC892, Monitor: DELL P2210H, Network: Intel 82579LM Gigabit Connection OS: Ubuntu 12.04, Kernel: 3.3.0-996-generic (x86_64), Desktop: Unity 5.4.0, Display Server: X Server 1.11.3, Display Driver: radeon 6.14.99, OpenGL: 2.1 Mesa 8.1-devel (git-99cd475) Gallium 0.4, Compiler: GCC 4.6, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 1920x1080 Doom 3 1.3.1 Resolution: 1280 x 1024 - Quality: Low Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better Radeon HD 5770: Linux 3.2 . 51.33 |============================ Radeon HD 5770: Linux 3.3 . 51.23 |=========================== Radeon HD 5770: drm-next .. 51.47 |============================ Radeon HD 6950: Linux 3.2 . 81.27 |============================================ Radeon HD 6950: Linux 3.3 . 82.03 |============================================ Radeon HD 6950: drm-next .. 81.10 |============================================ Doom 3 1.3.1 Resolution: 1920 x 1080 - Quality: Low Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better Radeon HD 5770: Linux 3.2 . 34.03 |======================== Radeon HD 5770: Linux 3.3 . 34.73 |======================== Radeon HD 5770: drm-next .. 33.87 |======================== Radeon HD 6950: Linux 3.2 . 60.98 |=========================================== Radeon HD 6950: Linux 3.3 . 60.87 |=========================================== Radeon HD 6950: drm-next .. 62.97 |============================================ Nexuiz 2.5.2 Resolution: 1920 x 1080 - HDR: Yes - Sound: On Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better Radeon HD 5770: Linux 3.2 . 56.04 |============================ Radeon HD 5770: Linux 3.3 . 58.58 |============================= Radeon HD 5770: drm-next .. 49.30 |======================== Radeon HD 6950: Linux 3.2 . 88.68 |============================================ Radeon HD 6950: Linux 3.3 . 79.63 |======================================== Radeon HD 6950: drm-next .. 36.83 |================== Xonotic 0.6 Resolution: 1024 x 768 - Effects Quality: Low Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better Radeon HD 5770: Linux 3.2 . 212.39 |========================================= Radeon HD 5770: Linux 3.3 . 211.55 |========================================= Radeon HD 5770: drm-next .. 210.48 |========================================= Radeon HD 6950: Linux 3.2 . 222.26 |=========================================== Radeon HD 6950: Linux 3.3 . 222.08 |=========================================== Radeon HD 6950: drm-next .. 215.86 |========================================== Xonotic 0.6 Resolution: 1024 x 768 - Effects Quality: High Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better Radeon HD 5770: Linux 3.2 . 111.91 |=================================== Radeon HD 5770: Linux 3.3 . 113.78 |==================================== Radeon HD 5770: drm-next .. 111.07 |=================================== Radeon HD 6950: Linux 3.2 . 135.71 |=========================================== Radeon HD 6950: Linux 3.3 . 130.16 |========================================= Radeon HD 6950: drm-next .. 126.21 |======================================== Xonotic 0.6 Resolution: 1920 x 1080 - Effects Quality: Low Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better Radeon HD 5770: Linux 3.2 . 119.83 |============================ Radeon HD 5770: Linux 3.3 . 121.50 |============================ Radeon HD 5770: drm-next .. 119.99 |============================ Radeon HD 6950: Linux 3.2 . 178.56 |========================================== Radeon HD 6950: Linux 3.3 . 168.55 |======================================= Radeon HD 6950: drm-next .. 184.63 |=========================================== Xonotic 0.6 Resolution: 1920 x 1080 - Effects Quality: High Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better Radeon HD 5770: Linux 3.2 . 60.69 |=========================== Radeon HD 5770: Linux 3.3 . 60.73 |============================ Radeon HD 5770: drm-next .. 60.43 |=========================== Radeon HD 6950: Linux 3.2 . 83.96 |====================================== Radeon HD 6950: Linux 3.3 . 84.88 |====================================== Radeon HD 6950: drm-next .. 97.16 |============================================ OpenArena 0.8.5 Resolution: 1920 x 1080 Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better Radeon HD 5770: Linux 3.2 . 118.47 |==================== Radeon HD 5770: Linux 3.3 . 230.17 |======================================= Radeon HD 5770: drm-next .. 228.02 |======================================= Radeon HD 6950: Linux 3.2 . 249.72 |=========================================== Radeon HD 6950: Linux 3.3 . 244.88 |========================================== Radeon HD 6950: drm-next .. 251.33 |=========================================== World of Padman 1.2 Resolution: 1920 x 1080 Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better Radeon HD 5770: Linux 3.2 . 126.43 |============================= Radeon HD 5770: Linux 3.3 . 126.30 |============================= Radeon HD 5770: drm-next .. 125.20 |============================ Radeon HD 6950: Linux 3.2 . 190.50 |=========================================== Radeon HD 6950: Linux 3.3 . 35.40 |======== Radeon HD 6950: drm-next .. 35.10 |======== Warsow 0.61 Resolution: 1920 x 1080 Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better Radeon HD 5770: Linux 3.2 . 28.70 |==================================== Radeon HD 5770: Linux 3.3 . 28.27 |=================================== Radeon HD 5770: drm-next .. 28.17 |=================================== Radeon HD 6950: Linux 3.2 . 33.63 |========================================== Radeon HD 6950: Linux 3.3 . 35.13 |============================================ Radeon HD 6950: drm-next .. 35.23 |============================================