Ubuntu 12.10 vs. 13.10 AMD Radeon Drivers

AMD Radeon tests on Ubuntu 12.10 and Ubuntu 13.10 with open-source Gallium3D Mesa and Catalyst driver options for AMD Radeon HD 4870 graphics card. Benchmarking by Michael Larabel for a future article on Phoronix.com.

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Ubuntu 12.10 - Stock
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November 07 2013
 
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Ubuntu 12.10 vs. 13.10 AMD Radeon Drivers AMD Radeon tests on Ubuntu 12.10 and Ubuntu 13.10 with open-source Gallium3D Mesa and Catalyst driver options for AMD Radeon HD 4870 graphics card. Benchmarking by Michael Larabel for a future article on Phoronix.com. ,,"Ubuntu 12.10 - Stock","Ubuntu 12.10 - Catalyst","Ubuntu 13.10 - Stock","Ubuntu 13.10 - Linux 3.12 DPM - Mesa 10" Processor,,AMD Opteron 2384 @ 2.70GHz (4 Cores),AMD Opteron 2384 @ 2.70GHz (4 Cores),AMD Opteron 2384 @ 2.70GHz (4 Cores),AMD Opteron 2384 @ 2.70GHz (4 Cores) Motherboard,,TYAN S2927/S2927-E,TYAN S2927/S2927-E,TYAN S2927/S2927-E,TYAN S2927/S2927-E Chipset,,NVIDIA MCP55,NVIDIA MCP55,NVIDIA MCP55,NVIDIA MCP55 Memory,,4096MB,4096MB,4096MB,4096MB Disk,,64GB AGILITY-EX,64GB AGILITY-EX,64GB AGILITY-EX + 128GB RVS02 SuperSpeed,64GB AGILITY-EX + 128GB RVS02 SuperSpeed Graphics,,AMD Radeon HD 4870 512MB,ATI Radeon HD 4800 512MB (750/900MHz),AMD Radeon HD 4870 512MB,AMD Radeon HD 4870 512MB (750/900MHz) Audio,,ATI R6xx HDMI,ATI R6xx HDMI,ATI R6xx HDMI,ATI R6xx HDMI Monitor,,Acer P243W,Acer P243W + Acer P243W,Acer P243W,Acer P243W OS,,Ubuntu 12.10,Ubuntu 12.10,Ubuntu 13.10,Ubuntu 13.10 Kernel,,3.5.0-17-generic (x86_64),3.5.0-17-generic (x86_64),3.11.0-12-generic (x86_64),3.12.0-031200-generic (x86_64) Desktop,,Xfce 4.10,Xfce 4.10,Xfce 4.10,Xfce 4.10 Display Server,,X Server 1.13.0,X Server 1.12.4,X Server 1.14.3,X Server 1.14.3 Display Driver,,radeon 6.99.99,fglrx 8.97.2,radeon 7.2.0,radeon 7.2.99 OpenGL,,2.1 Mesa 9.0.3 Gallium 0.4,3.3.11672,3.1 Mesa 9.2.1 Gallium 0.4,3.1 Mesa 10.0.0-devel (git-1100093 saucy-oibaf-ppa) Gallium 0.4 Compiler,,GCC 4.7,GCC 4.7,GCC 4.8,GCC 4.8 File-System,,ext4,ext4,ext4,ext4 Screen Resolution,,1920x1200,1920x1200,1920x1200,1920x1200 ,,"Ubuntu 12.10 - Stock","Ubuntu 12.10 - Catalyst","Ubuntu 13.10 - Stock","Ubuntu 13.10 - Linux 3.12 DPM - Mesa 10" "Nexuiz - Resolution: 1920 x 1200 - HDR: Yes - Sound: Off (FPS)",HIB,67.56,96.59,51.67,57.33 "OpenArena - Resolution: 1920 x 1200 (FPS)",HIB,121.77,275.50,170.00,207.83 "OpenArena - Resolution: 1920 x 1200 (FPS)",HIB,20.10,127.27,68.53,68.63 "Unvanquished - Resolution: 1920 x 1200 (FPS)",HIB,6.62,28.87,19.23,27.23 "Warsow - Resolution: 1920 x 1200 (FPS)",HIB,22.77,173.13,65.60,70.77 "Xonotic - Resolution: 1920 x 1200 - Effects Quality: Low (FPS)",HIB,26.34,166.71,76.52,86.88 "Xonotic - Resolution: 1920 x 1200 - Effects Quality: High (FPS)",HIB,13.63,122.53,52.99,61.11 "Xonotic - Resolution: 1920 x 1200 - Effects Quality: Ultra (FPS)",HIB,12.75,100.71,46.98,54.13 "Doom 3 - Resolution: 1920 x 1200 - Quality: High (FPS)",HIB,,138.87,66.37,67.90 "Prey - Resolution: 1920 x 1200 (FPS)",HIB,,107.97,79.13,90.90 "Unigine Sanctuary - Resolution: 1280 x 1024 (FPS)",HIB,,91.35,33.68,49.44 "Unigine Tropics - Resolution: 1280 x 1024 (FPS)",HIB,,68.54,35.50,44.69 "GpuTest - Test: Plot3D - Resolution: 1920 x 1200 (Points)",HIB,6289,10863,6504,6564 "GpuTest - Test: Furmark - Resolution: 1920 x 1200 (Points)",HIB,534,697,495,830 "GpuTest - Test: Triangle - Resolution: 1920 x 1200 (Points)",HIB,21090,164396,25091,25170 "OpenArena - Resolution: 1920 x 1200 - Total Frame Time (Milliseconds)",LIB,40.65,7.83,14.81,14.29 "Unvanquished - Resolution: 1920 x 1200 - Total Frame Time (Milliseconds)",LIB,,34.22,33.19,26.98