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.
Processor: Intel Core i7-4770K @ 3.50GHz (8 Cores), Motherboard: ECS Z87H3-A2X EXTREME v1.0, Chipset: Intel 4th Gen Core DRAM, Memory: 16384MB, Disk: 240GB OCZ VERTEX3, Graphics: Sapphire AMD Radeon HD 6950 2048MB, Audio: Realtek ALC1150, Monitor: VA2431, Network: Realtek RTL8111/8168/8411
OS: Ubuntu 13.10, Kernel: 3.11.0-031100-generic (x86_64), Desktop: Unity 7.1.1, Display Server: X Server 1.14.3, Display Driver: radeon 7.2.0, OpenGL: 3.1 Mesa 10.0.0-devel (git-975c6ce) Gallium 0.4, Compiler: GCC 4.8 + LLVM 3.3, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 1920x1080
Graphics Notes: EXA
Processor: Intel Core i7-4770K @ 3.90GHz (8 Cores), Motherboard: ECS Z87H3-A2X EXTREME v1.0, Chipset: Intel 4th Gen Core DRAM, Memory: 16384MB, Disk: 240GB OCZ VERTEX3, Graphics: Sapphire AMD Radeon HD 6950 2048MB, Audio: Realtek ALC1150, Monitor: VA2431, Network: Realtek RTL8111/8168/8411
OS: Ubuntu 13.10, Kernel: 3.12.0-999-generic (x86_64), Desktop: Unity 7.1.1, Display Server: X Server 1.14.3, Display Driver: radeon 7.2.0, OpenGL: 3.1 Mesa 10.0.0-devel (git-975c6ce) Gallium 0.4, Compiler: GCC 4.8 + LLVM 3.3, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 1920x1080
Processor: AMD FX-8350 Eight-Core @ 4.00GHz (8 Cores), Motherboard: ASUS M5A97, Chipset: AMD RD890 bridge, Memory: 8192MB, Disk: 250GB Samsung SSD 840 + 128GB SAMSUNG SSD 830 + 3001GB Seagate ST33000651AS, Graphics: ASUS AMD Radeon HD 7870 GHz Edition 2048MB (1000/1200MHz), Audio: Realtek ALC887-VD, Monitor: IPS236, Network: Realtek RTL8111/8168/8411
OS: Ubuntu 13.10, Kernel: 3.13.0-0-generic (x86_64), Desktop: GNOME Shell 3.8.4, Display Server: X Server 1.14.3, Display Driver: radeon 7.2.99, OpenGL: 3.1 Mesa 10.1.0-devel (git-35a3414 saucy-oibaf-ppa) Gallium 0.4, File-System: btrfs, Screen Resolution: 1920x1080
Kernel Notes: radeon.dpm=1
Graphics Notes: GLAMOR
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.
Processor: Intel Core i7-4770K @ 3.50GHz (8 Cores), Motherboard: ECS Z87H3-A2X EXTREME v1.0, Chipset: Intel 4th Gen Core DRAM, Memory: 16384MB, Disk: 240GB OCZ VERTEX3, Graphics: Sapphire AMD Radeon HD 6950 2048MB, Audio: Realtek ALC1150, Monitor: VA2431, Network: Realtek RTL8111/8168/8411
OS: Ubuntu 13.10, Kernel: 3.11.0-031100-generic (x86_64), Desktop: Unity 7.1.1, Display Server: X Server 1.14.3, Display Driver: radeon 7.2.0, OpenGL: 3.1 Mesa 10.0.0-devel (git-975c6ce) Gallium 0.4, Compiler: GCC 4.8 + LLVM 3.3, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 1920x1080
Graphics Notes: EXA
Testing initiated at 14 October 2013 21:01 by user phoronix.
Processor: Intel Core i7-4770K @ 3.90GHz (8 Cores), Motherboard: ECS Z87H3-A2X EXTREME v1.0, Chipset: Intel 4th Gen Core DRAM, Memory: 16384MB, Disk: 240GB OCZ VERTEX3, Graphics: Sapphire AMD Radeon HD 6950 2048MB, Audio: Realtek ALC1150, Monitor: VA2431, Network: Realtek RTL8111/8168/8411
OS: Ubuntu 13.10, Kernel: 3.12.0-999-generic (x86_64), Desktop: Unity 7.1.1, Display Server: X Server 1.14.3, Display Driver: radeon 7.2.0, OpenGL: 3.1 Mesa 10.0.0-devel (git-975c6ce) Gallium 0.4, Compiler: GCC 4.8 + LLVM 3.3, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 1920x1080
Graphics Notes: EXA
Testing initiated at 14 October 2013 21:26 by user phoronix.
Processor: AMD FX-8350 Eight-Core @ 4.00GHz (8 Cores), Motherboard: ASUS M5A97, Chipset: AMD RD890 bridge, Memory: 8192MB, Disk: 250GB Samsung SSD 840 + 128GB SAMSUNG SSD 830 + 3001GB Seagate ST33000651AS, Graphics: ASUS AMD Radeon HD 7870 GHz Edition 2048MB (1000/1200MHz), Audio: Realtek ALC887-VD, Monitor: IPS236, Network: Realtek RTL8111/8168/8411
OS: Ubuntu 13.10, Kernel: 3.13.0-0-generic (x86_64), Desktop: GNOME Shell 3.8.4, Display Server: X Server 1.14.3, Display Driver: radeon 7.2.99, OpenGL: 3.1 Mesa 10.1.0-devel (git-35a3414 saucy-oibaf-ppa) Gallium 0.4, File-System: btrfs, Screen Resolution: 1920x1080
Kernel Notes: radeon.dpm=1
Graphics Notes: GLAMOR
Testing initiated at 25 December 2013 02:11 by user matt.