Intel Core i7-4770K testing of Radeon HD 6950 graphics card on Linux 3.11 and 3.12 kernels looking at CPU usage and CPU frequency using MONITOR environment variable with Phoronix Test Suite. Benchmarking by Michael Larabel for a future article on Phoronix.com. Now with CPUfreq performance governor on Linux 3.12 too.
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Linux 3.12 Radeon DPM System Monitor CPU Governors
Intel Core i7-4770K testing of Radeon HD 6950 graphics card on Linux 3.11 and 3.12 kernels looking at CPU usage and CPU frequency using MONITOR environment variable with Phoronix Test Suite. Benchmarking by Michael Larabel for a future article on Phoronix.com. Now with CPUfreq performance governor on Linux 3.12 too.
,,"Linux 3.11","Linux 3.12 Git","Linux 3.12 Git - performance","NVS 4200M"
Processor,,Intel Core i7-4770K @ 3.50GHz (8 Cores),Intel Core i7-4770K @ 3.90GHz (8 Cores),Intel Core i7-4770K @ 3.90GHz (8 Cores),Intel Core i7-2760QM @ 3.50GHz (8 Cores)
Motherboard,,ECS Z87H3-A2X EXTREME v1.0,ECS Z87H3-A2X EXTREME v1.0,ECS Z87H3-A2X EXTREME v1.0,Dell 032T9K
Chipset,,Intel 4th Gen Core DRAM,Intel 4th Gen Core DRAM,Intel 4th Gen Core DRAM,Intel 2nd Generation Core Family DRAM
Memory,,16384MB,16384MB,16384MB,8192MB
Disk,,240GB OCZ VERTEX3,240GB OCZ VERTEX3,240GB OCZ VERTEX3,256GB SAMSUNG SSD PM83
Graphics,,Sapphire AMD Radeon HD 6950 2048MB,Sapphire AMD Radeon HD 6950 2048MB,Sapphire AMD Radeon HD 6950 2048MB,NVS 4200M 512MB (740/800MHz)
Audio,,Realtek ALC1150,Realtek ALC1150,Realtek ALC1150,Intel 6 /C200
Monitor,,VA2431,VA2431,VA2431,
Network,,Realtek RTL8111/8168/8411,Realtek RTL8111/8168/8411,Realtek RTL8111/8168/8411,Intel 82579LM Gigabit Connection + Intel Centrino Advanced-N 6205
OS,,Ubuntu 13.10,Ubuntu 13.10,Ubuntu 13.10,Fedora 19
Kernel,,3.11.0-031100-generic (x86_64),3.12.0-999-generic (x86_64),3.12.0-999-generic (x86_64),3.11.4-201.fc19.x86_64 (x86_64)
Desktop,,Unity 7.1.1,Unity 7.1.1,Unity 7.1.1,KDE 4.11.2
Display Server,,X Server 1.14.3,X Server 1.14.3,X Server 1.14.3,X Server 1.14.3
Display Driver,,radeon 7.2.0,radeon 7.2.0,radeon 7.2.0,NVIDIA 319.49
OpenGL,,3.1 Mesa 10.0.0-devel (git-975c6ce) Gallium 0.4,3.1 Mesa 10.0.0-devel (git-975c6ce) Gallium 0.4,3.1 Mesa 10.0.0-devel (git-975c6ce) Gallium 0.4,4.3.0
Compiler,,GCC 4.8 + LLVM 3.3,GCC 4.8 + LLVM 3.3,GCC 4.8 + LLVM 3.3,GCC 4.8.1 20130603
File-System,,ext4,ext4,ext4,ext4
Screen Resolution,,1920x1080,1920x1080,1920x1080,1600x900
,,"Linux 3.11","Linux 3.12 Git","Linux 3.12 Git - performance","NVS 4200M"
"CPU Frequency Monitor - Phoronix Test Suite System Monitoring (Megahertz)",,1542.12,3709.16,3706.74,
"CPU Usage Monitor - Phoronix Test Suite System Monitoring (Percent)",,11.22,9.31,9.34,
"OpenArena - Resolution: 1024 x 768 (FPS)",HIB,171.75,225.92,226.64,69.77
"OpenArena - Resolution: 1920 x 1080 (FPS)",HIB,102.14,116.72,116.82,139.23
"OpenArena - Resolution: 1024 x 768 (FPS)",HIB,402.83,608.26,605.58,258.10
"OpenArena - Resolution: 1920 x 1080 (FPS)",HIB,303.61,463.44,463.86,486.60
"Xonotic - Resolution: 1920 x 1080 - Effects Quality: Low (FPS)",HIB,325.06,346.80,345.48,185.86
"Xonotic - Resolution: 1920 x 1080 - Effects Quality: Ultra (FPS)",HIB,162.40,192.00,191.79,46.28
"OpenArena - CPU Frequency Monitor (Megahertz)",LIB,1635.59,3648.75,3661.88,
"OpenArena - CPU Frequency Monitor (Megahertz)",LIB,1374.3,3624.21,3635.73,
"OpenArena - CPU Frequency Monitor (Megahertz)",LIB,1142.23,3751.67,3753.33,
"OpenArena - CPU Frequency Monitor (Megahertz)",LIB,1233.41,3668.91,3644.57,
"Xonotic - CPU Frequency Monitor (Megahertz)",LIB,1095.98,3815.76,3821.09,
"Xonotic - CPU Frequency Monitor (Megahertz)",LIB,2208.1,3758.27,3741.82,
"OpenArena - Resolution: 1024 x 768 - Total Frame Time (Milliseconds)",LIB,5.33,4.44,4.4,14.32
"OpenArena - Resolution: 1920 x 1080 - Total Frame Time (Milliseconds)",LIB,9.78,8.55,8.55,7.17
"OpenArena - CPU Usage Monitor (Percent)",LIB,12.34,9.99,10.13,
"OpenArena - CPU Usage Monitor (Percent)",LIB,11.19,6.35,6.35,
"OpenArena - CPU Usage Monitor (Percent)",LIB,11.85,10.53,10.64,
"OpenArena - CPU Usage Monitor (Percent)",LIB,11.7,9.52,9.8,
"Xonotic - CPU Usage Monitor (Percent)",LIB,12.55,12.43,12.45,
"Xonotic - CPU Usage Monitor (Percent)",LIB,11.82,10.97,11.07,