Linux 3.12 Mesa 9.3 Radeon AMD Comparison
Testing 11 different ATI/AMD Radeon graphics cards under Linux with the Linux 3.12 Git kernel and R600 and RadeonSI Gallium3D graphics drivers on Ubuntu 13.10 Linux. Benchmarking by Michael Larabel for a future article on Phoronix.com.
Radeon HD 4550
Processor: Intel Core i7-4770K @ 3.90GHz (8 Cores), Motherboard: ECS Z87H3-A2X EXTREME v1.0, Chipset: Intel Haswell DRAM, Memory: 16384MB, Disk: 240GB OCZ VERTEX3, Graphics: Sapphire AMD Radeon HD 4550 512MB (600/800MHz), Audio: Realtek ALC1150, Monitor: VA2431, Network: Realtek RTL8111/8168
OS: Ubuntu 13.04, Kernel: 3.12.0-031200rc1-generic (x86_64), Desktop: Xfce 4.10, Display Server: X Server 1.13.3, Display Driver: radeon 7.2.99, OpenGL: 3.1 Mesa 9.3.0-devel (git-a1b6e69 raring-oibaf-ppa) Gallium 0.4, Compiler: GCC 4.7, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 1920x1080
Kernel Notes: radeon.dpm=1
Graphics Notes: EXA
Radeon HD 4830
Changed Graphics to Sapphire AMD Radeon HD 4830 512MB (575/900MHz).
Radeon HD 4850
Changed Graphics to AMD Radeon HD 4850 512MB (625/993MHz).
Radeon HD 4890
Changed Graphics to ASUS AMD Radeon HD 4890 1024MB (900/975MHz).
Radeon HD 5450
Changed Graphics to Sapphire AMD Radeon HD 5000/6000/7350 512MB (650/400MHz).
Radeon HD 5830
Changed Graphics to Sapphire AMD Radeon HD 5830 1024MB (800/1000MHz).
Radeon HD 6450
Changed Graphics to AMD Radeon HD 6450 1024MB (625/667MHz).
Radeon HD 6570
Changed Graphics to Sapphire AMD Radeon HD 6570 512MB (650/1000MHz).
Radeon HD 6770
Changed Graphics to Sapphire AMD Radeon HD 6770 1024MB (850/1200MHz).
Radeon HD 6950
Changed Graphics to Sapphire AMD Radeon HD 6950 2048MB (800/1250MHz).
Radeon HD 7850
Processor: Intel Core i7-4770K @ 3.90GHz (8 Cores), Motherboard: ECS Z87H3-A2X EXTREME v1.0, Chipset: Intel Haswell DRAM, Memory: 16384MB, Disk: 240GB OCZ VERTEX3, Graphics: ASUS AMD Radeon HD 7850 1024MB (860/1200MHz), Audio: ATI R6xx HDMI, Monitor: VA2431, Network: Realtek RTL8111/8168
OS: Ubuntu 13.04, Kernel: 3.12.0-031200rc1-generic (x86_64), Desktop: Xfce 4.10, Display Server: X Server 1.13.3, Display Driver: radeon 7.2.99, OpenGL: 2.1 Mesa 9.3.0-devel (git-a1b6e69 raring-oibaf-ppa) Gallium 0.4, Compiler: GCC 4.7, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 1920x1080
Kernel Notes: radeon.dpm=1
Graphics Notes: GLAMOR
OpenArena
This is a test of OpenArena, a popular open-source first-person shooter. This game is based upon ioquake3, which in turn uses the GPL version of id Software's Quake 3 engine. Learn more via the OpenBenchmarking.org test page.
World of Padman
Unvanquished
Urban Terror
GpuTest
Urban Terror
Unigine Sanctuary
GpuTest
OpenArena
GpuTest
Unvanquished
Unigine Sanctuary
Prey
This test calculates the average frame-rate within the Prey retail game from 3D Realms. This test requires a valid game key and game files found on the retail CD/DVD. Learn more via the OpenBenchmarking.org test page.
Unigine Tropics
Doom 3
GpuTest
Unigine Tropics
Xonotic
OpenArena
Nexuiz
Xonotic
Quake 4
This test calculates the average frame-rate within the Quake 4 game from id Software. Learn more via the OpenBenchmarking.org test page.
Radeon HD 4550
Processor: Intel Core i7-4770K @ 3.90GHz (8 Cores), Motherboard: ECS Z87H3-A2X EXTREME v1.0, Chipset: Intel Haswell DRAM, Memory: 16384MB, Disk: 240GB OCZ VERTEX3, Graphics: Sapphire AMD Radeon HD 4550 512MB (600/800MHz), Audio: Realtek ALC1150, Monitor: VA2431, Network: Realtek RTL8111/8168
OS: Ubuntu 13.04, Kernel: 3.12.0-031200rc1-generic (x86_64), Desktop: Xfce 4.10, Display Server: X Server 1.13.3, Display Driver: radeon 7.2.99, OpenGL: 3.1 Mesa 9.3.0-devel (git-a1b6e69 raring-oibaf-ppa) Gallium 0.4, Compiler: GCC 4.7, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 1920x1080
Kernel Notes: radeon.dpm=1
Graphics Notes: EXA
Testing initiated at 18 September 2013 10:09 by user phoronix.
Radeon HD 4830
Processor: Intel Core i7-4770K @ 3.90GHz (8 Cores), Motherboard: ECS Z87H3-A2X EXTREME v1.0, Chipset: Intel Haswell DRAM, Memory: 16384MB, Disk: 240GB OCZ VERTEX3, Graphics: Sapphire AMD Radeon HD 4830 512MB (575/900MHz), Audio: Realtek ALC1150, Monitor: VA2431, Network: Realtek RTL8111/8168
OS: Ubuntu 13.04, Kernel: 3.12.0-031200rc1-generic (x86_64), Desktop: Xfce 4.10, Display Server: X Server 1.13.3, Display Driver: radeon 7.2.99, OpenGL: 3.1 Mesa 9.3.0-devel (git-a1b6e69 raring-oibaf-ppa) Gallium 0.4, Compiler: GCC 4.7, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 1920x1080
Kernel Notes: radeon.dpm=1
Graphics Notes: EXA
Testing initiated at 17 September 2013 17:49 by user phoronix.
Radeon HD 4850
Processor: Intel Core i7-4770K @ 3.90GHz (8 Cores), Motherboard: ECS Z87H3-A2X EXTREME v1.0, Chipset: Intel Haswell DRAM, Memory: 16384MB, Disk: 240GB OCZ VERTEX3, Graphics: AMD Radeon HD 4850 512MB (625/993MHz), Audio: Realtek ALC1150, Monitor: VA2431, Network: Realtek RTL8111/8168
OS: Ubuntu 13.04, Kernel: 3.12.0-031200rc1-generic (x86_64), Desktop: Xfce 4.10, Display Server: X Server 1.13.3, Display Driver: radeon 7.2.99, OpenGL: 3.1 Mesa 9.3.0-devel (git-a1b6e69 raring-oibaf-ppa) Gallium 0.4, Compiler: GCC 4.7, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 1920x1080
Kernel Notes: radeon.dpm=1
Graphics Notes: EXA
Testing initiated at 18 September 2013 07:42 by user phoronix.
Radeon HD 4890
Processor: Intel Core i7-4770K @ 3.90GHz (8 Cores), Motherboard: ECS Z87H3-A2X EXTREME v1.0, Chipset: Intel Haswell DRAM, Memory: 16384MB, Disk: 240GB OCZ VERTEX3, Graphics: ASUS AMD Radeon HD 4890 1024MB (900/975MHz), Audio: Realtek ALC1150, Monitor: VA2431, Network: Realtek RTL8111/8168
OS: Ubuntu 13.04, Kernel: 3.12.0-031200rc1-generic (x86_64), Desktop: Xfce 4.10, Display Server: X Server 1.13.3, Display Driver: radeon 7.2.99, OpenGL: 3.1 Mesa 9.3.0-devel (git-a1b6e69 raring-oibaf-ppa) Gallium 0.4, Compiler: GCC 4.7, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 1920x1080
Kernel Notes: radeon.dpm=1
Graphics Notes: EXA
Testing initiated at 17 September 2013 22:12 by user phoronix.
Radeon HD 5450
Processor: Intel Core i7-4770K @ 3.90GHz (8 Cores), Motherboard: ECS Z87H3-A2X EXTREME v1.0, Chipset: Intel Haswell DRAM, Memory: 16384MB, Disk: 240GB OCZ VERTEX3, Graphics: Sapphire AMD Radeon HD 5000/6000/7350 512MB (650/400MHz), Audio: Realtek ALC1150, Monitor: VA2431, Network: Realtek RTL8111/8168
OS: Ubuntu 13.04, Kernel: 3.12.0-031200rc1-generic (x86_64), Desktop: Xfce 4.10, Display Server: X Server 1.13.3, Display Driver: radeon 7.2.99, OpenGL: 3.1 Mesa 9.3.0-devel (git-a1b6e69 raring-oibaf-ppa) Gallium 0.4, Compiler: GCC 4.7, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 1920x1080
Kernel Notes: radeon.dpm=1
Graphics Notes: EXA
Testing initiated at 18 September 2013 17:22 by user phoronix.
Radeon HD 5830
Processor: Intel Core i7-4770K @ 3.90GHz (8 Cores), Motherboard: ECS Z87H3-A2X EXTREME v1.0, Chipset: Intel Haswell DRAM, Memory: 16384MB, Disk: 240GB OCZ VERTEX3, Graphics: Sapphire AMD Radeon HD 5830 1024MB (800/1000MHz), Audio: ATI R6xx HDMI, Monitor: VA2431, Network: Realtek RTL8111/8168
OS: Ubuntu 13.04, Kernel: 3.12.0-031200rc1-generic (x86_64), Desktop: Xfce 4.10, Display Server: X Server 1.13.3, Display Driver: radeon 7.2.99, OpenGL: 3.1 Mesa 9.3.0-devel (git-a1b6e69 raring-oibaf-ppa) Gallium 0.4, Compiler: GCC 4.7, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 1920x1080
Kernel Notes: radeon.dpm=1
Graphics Notes: EXA
Testing initiated at 17 September 2013 19:18 by user phoronix.
Radeon HD 6450
Processor: Intel Core i7-4770K @ 3.90GHz (8 Cores), Motherboard: ECS Z87H3-A2X EXTREME v1.0, Chipset: Intel Haswell DRAM, Memory: 16384MB, Disk: 240GB OCZ VERTEX3, Graphics: AMD Radeon HD 6450 1024MB (625/667MHz), Audio: ATI R6xx HDMI, Monitor: VA2431, Network: Realtek RTL8111/8168
OS: Ubuntu 13.04, Kernel: 3.12.0-031200rc1-generic (x86_64), Desktop: Xfce 4.10, Display Server: X Server 1.13.3, Display Driver: radeon 7.2.99, OpenGL: 3.1 Mesa 9.3.0-devel (git-a1b6e69 raring-oibaf-ppa) Gallium 0.4, Compiler: GCC 4.7, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 1920x1080
Kernel Notes: radeon.dpm=1
Graphics Notes: EXA
Testing initiated at 17 September 2013 14:59 by user phoronix.
Radeon HD 6570
Processor: Intel Core i7-4770K @ 3.90GHz (8 Cores), Motherboard: ECS Z87H3-A2X EXTREME v1.0, Chipset: Intel Haswell DRAM, Memory: 16384MB, Disk: 240GB OCZ VERTEX3, Graphics: Sapphire AMD Radeon HD 6570 512MB (650/1000MHz), Audio: Realtek ALC1150, Monitor: VA2431, Network: Realtek RTL8111/8168
OS: Ubuntu 13.04, Kernel: 3.12.0-031200rc1-generic (x86_64), Desktop: Xfce 4.10, Display Server: X Server 1.13.3, Display Driver: radeon 7.2.99, OpenGL: 3.1 Mesa 9.3.0-devel (git-a1b6e69 raring-oibaf-ppa) Gallium 0.4, Compiler: GCC 4.7, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 1920x1080
Kernel Notes: radeon.dpm=1
Graphics Notes: EXA
Testing initiated at 17 September 2013 11:01 by user phoronix.
Radeon HD 6770
Processor: Intel Core i7-4770K @ 3.90GHz (8 Cores), Motherboard: ECS Z87H3-A2X EXTREME v1.0, Chipset: Intel Haswell DRAM, Memory: 16384MB, Disk: 240GB OCZ VERTEX3, Graphics: Sapphire AMD Radeon HD 6770 1024MB (850/1200MHz), Audio: Realtek ALC1150, Monitor: VA2431, Network: Realtek RTL8111/8168
OS: Ubuntu 13.04, Kernel: 3.12.0-031200rc1-generic (x86_64), Desktop: Xfce 4.10, Display Server: X Server 1.13.3, Display Driver: radeon 7.2.99, OpenGL: 3.1 Mesa 9.3.0-devel (git-a1b6e69 raring-oibaf-ppa) Gallium 0.4, Compiler: GCC 4.7, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 1920x1080
Kernel Notes: radeon.dpm=1
Graphics Notes: EXA
Testing initiated at 17 September 2013 20:40 by user phoronix.
Radeon HD 6950
Processor: Intel Core i7-4770K @ 3.90GHz (8 Cores), Motherboard: ECS Z87H3-A2X EXTREME v1.0, Chipset: Intel Haswell DRAM, Memory: 16384MB, Disk: 240GB OCZ VERTEX3, Graphics: Sapphire AMD Radeon HD 6950 2048MB (800/1250MHz), Audio: Realtek ALC1150, Monitor: VA2431, Network: Realtek RTL8111/8168
OS: Ubuntu 13.04, Kernel: 3.12.0-031200rc1-generic (x86_64), Desktop: Xfce 4.10, Display Server: X Server 1.13.3, Display Driver: radeon 7.2.99, OpenGL: 3.1 Mesa 9.3.0-devel (git-a1b6e69 raring-oibaf-ppa) Gallium 0.4, Compiler: GCC 4.7, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 1920x1080
Kernel Notes: radeon.dpm=1
Graphics Notes: EXA
Testing initiated at 17 September 2013 13:26 by user phoronix.
Radeon HD 7850
Processor: Intel Core i7-4770K @ 3.90GHz (8 Cores), Motherboard: ECS Z87H3-A2X EXTREME v1.0, Chipset: Intel Haswell DRAM, Memory: 16384MB, Disk: 240GB OCZ VERTEX3, Graphics: ASUS AMD Radeon HD 7850 1024MB (860/1200MHz), Audio: ATI R6xx HDMI, Monitor: VA2431, Network: Realtek RTL8111/8168
OS: Ubuntu 13.04, Kernel: 3.12.0-031200rc1-generic (x86_64), Desktop: Xfce 4.10, Display Server: X Server 1.13.3, Display Driver: radeon 7.2.99, OpenGL: 2.1 Mesa 9.3.0-devel (git-a1b6e69 raring-oibaf-ppa) Gallium 0.4, Compiler: GCC 4.7, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 1920x1080
Kernel Notes: radeon.dpm=1
Graphics Notes: GLAMOR
Testing initiated at 18 September 2013 14:25 by user phoronix.