Ubuntu 12.04 AMD Radeon Gallium3D Catalyst
Benchmarking of AMD Catalyst 12.3 Linux driver on Ubuntu 12.04 LTS compared to the stock Ubuntu 12.04 LTS Radeon Galliun3D stack, Git from 2012-04-19 of Mesa 8.1-devel, Linux 3.4 kernel, xf86-video-ati, and libdrm. Also then the Git stack with Radeon PCI Express 2.0 (PCI-E 2.0) support and ColorTiling / ColorTiling 2D enabled. Swap buffers wait was disabled throughout. Testing by Michael Larabel for a future article on Phoronix.com with AMD soon canning the R600 and R700 series Catalyst Linux driver support. Radeon HD 4770 was used as a normal mid-range graphics card.


Ubuntu 12.04 - Stock: 

	Processor: Intel Core i7 990X @ 3.47GHz (12 Cores), Motherboard: MSI X58M (MS-7593) v1.0, Chipset: Intel 5520/5500/X58 + ICH10R, Memory: 3072MB, Disk: 160GB Western Digital WD1600JS-00M, Graphics: AMD ATI Radeon HD 4770 [RV740] 512MB (750/799MHz), Audio: Realtek ALC889, Monitor: DELL S2409W, Network: Realtek RTL8111/8168B

	OS: Ubuntu 12.04, Kernel: 3.2.0-23-generic (x86_64), Desktop: Unity 5.8.0, Display Server: X Server 1.11.3, Display Driver: radeon 6.14.99, OpenGL: 2.1 Mesa 8.0.2 Gallium 0.4, Compiler: GCC 4.6, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 1920x1080

2012-04-19 Git: 

	Processor: Intel Core i7 990X @ 3.47GHz (12 Cores), Motherboard: MSI X58M (MS-7593) v1.0, Chipset: Intel 5520/5500/X58 + ICH10R, Memory: 3072MB, Disk: 160GB Western Digital WD1600JS-00M, Graphics: AMD ATI Radeon HD 4770 [RV740] 512MB, Audio: Realtek ALC889, Monitor: DELL S2409W, Network: Realtek RTL8111/8168B

	OS: Ubuntu 12.04, Kernel: 3.4.0-999-generic (x86_64), Desktop: Unity 5.8.0, Display Server: X Server 1.11.3, Display Driver: radeon 6.14.99, OpenGL: 2.1 Mesa 8.1-devel (git-137c5ec) Gallium 0.4, Compiler: GCC 4.6, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 1920x1080

2012-04-19 Git + Tweaks: 

	Processor: Intel Core i7 990X @ 3.47GHz (12 Cores), Motherboard: MSI X58M (MS-7593) v1.0, Chipset: Intel 5520/5500/X58 + ICH10R, Memory: 3072MB, Disk: 160GB Western Digital WD1600JS-00M, Graphics: AMD ATI Radeon HD 4770 [RV740] 512MB, Audio: Realtek ALC889, Monitor: DELL S2409W, Network: Realtek RTL8111/8168B

	OS: Ubuntu 12.04, Kernel: 3.4.0-999-generic (x86_64), Desktop: Unity 5.8.0, Display Server: X Server 1.11.3, Display Driver: radeon 6.14.99, OpenGL: 2.1 Mesa 8.1-devel (git-137c5ec) Gallium 0.4, Compiler: GCC 4.6, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 1920x1080

Ubuntu 12.04 - Catalyst 12.3: 

	Processor: Intel Core i7 990X @ 3.47GHz (12 Cores), Motherboard: MSI X58M (MS-7593) v1.0, Chipset: Intel 5520/5500/X58 + ICH10R, Memory: 3072MB, Disk: 160GB Western Digital WD1600JS-00M, Graphics: ATI Radeon HD 4770 512MB (750/800MHz), Audio: Realtek ALC889, Monitor: DELL S2409W, Network: Realtek RTL8111/8168B

	OS: Ubuntu 12.04, Kernel: 3.2.0-23-generic (x86_64), Desktop: Unity 5.8.0, Display Server: X Server 1.11.3, Display Driver: fglrx 8.95.3 Catalyst 12.3, OpenGL: 3.3.11566, Compiler: GCC 4.6, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 1920x1080


Xonotic 0.6
Resolution: 1920 x 1080 - Effects Quality: High
Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better
Ubuntu 12.04 - Stock ......... 44.38  |=============
2012-04-19 Git ............... 48.09  |==============
2012-04-19 Git + Tweaks ...... 52.81  |===============
Ubuntu 12.04 - Catalyst 12.3 . 138.80 |========================================


Xonotic 0.6
Resolution: 1920 x 1080 - Effects Quality: Low
Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better
Ubuntu 12.04 - Stock ......... 99.72  |================
2012-04-19 Git ............... 100.15 |================
2012-04-19 Git + Tweaks ...... 111.04 |==================
Ubuntu 12.04 - Catalyst 12.3 . 244.31 |========================================


Reaction Quake 3 1.0 Beta
Resolution: 1920 x 1080
Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better
Ubuntu 12.04 - Stock ......... 6.40   |=
2012-04-19 Git ............... 11.67  |==
2012-04-19 Git + Tweaks ...... 15.80  |===
Ubuntu 12.04 - Catalyst 12.3 . 220.37 |========================================


World of Padman 1.2
Resolution: 1920 x 1080
Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better
Ubuntu 12.04 - Stock ......... 104.57 |==============
2012-04-19 Git ............... 106.73 |==============
2012-04-19 Git + Tweaks ...... 122.50 |================
Ubuntu 12.04 - Catalyst 12.3 . 301.47 |========================================


OpenArena 0.8.8
Resolution: 1920 x 1080
Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better
Ubuntu 12.04 - Stock ......... 20.60 |==========
2012-04-19 Git ............... 21.03 |==========
2012-04-19 Git + Tweaks ...... 21.70 |===========
Ubuntu 12.04 - Catalyst 12.3 . 83.73 |=========================================


Nexuiz 2.5.2
Resolution: 1920 x 1080 - HDR: Yes - Sound: Off
Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better
Ubuntu 12.04 - Stock ......... 41.60  |================
2012-04-19 Git ............... 45.62  |==================
2012-04-19 Git + Tweaks ...... 48.98  |===================
Ubuntu 12.04 - Catalyst 12.3 . 102.54 |========================================


Lightsmark 2008
Resolution: 1920 x 1080
Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better
Ubuntu 12.04 - Stock ......... 49.38  |======
2012-04-19 Git ............... 50.34  |======
2012-04-19 Git + Tweaks ...... 54.69  |======
Ubuntu 12.04 - Catalyst 12.3 . 358.83 |========================================


Doom 3 1.3.1
Resolution: 1920 x 1080 - Quality: Low
Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better
Ubuntu 12.04 - Stock ......... 27.73  |======
2012-04-19 Git ............... 27.43  |======
2012-04-19 Git + Tweaks ...... 28.57  |======
Ubuntu 12.04 - Catalyst 12.3 . 180.85 |========================================