AMD Kaveri Open-Source Graphics Testing Testing Ubuntu 14.04 LTS out of the box on an AMD A10-7850K Kaveri system followed by testing it with Radeon DPM power management manually enabled and then enabling color tiling support for maximum performance on RadeonSI Gallium3D. Benchmarks by Michael Larabel for a future article on Phoronix.com. Mesa 10.1-devel + Linux 3.13 Stock: Processor: AMD A10-7850K APU with Radeon R7 @ 3.70GHz (4 Cores), Motherboard: Gigabyte F2A88XM-D3H, Chipset: AMD Device 1422, Memory: 7168MB, Disk: 120GB KINGSTON SV300S3, Graphics: AMD Kaveri 1024MB, Audio: ATI R6xx HDMI, Monitor: VE228, Network: Realtek RTL8111/8168/8411 OS: Ubuntu 14.04, Kernel: 3.13.0-5-generic (x86_64), Desktop: Unity 7.1.2, Display Server: X Server 1.14.5, Display Driver: radeon 7.2.99, OpenGL: 3.1 Mesa 10.1.0-devel Gallium 0.4, Compiler: GCC 4.8, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 1920x1080 Radeon DPM Enabled: Processor: AMD A10-7850K APU with Radeon R7 @ 3.70GHz (4 Cores), Motherboard: Gigabyte F2A88XM-D3H, Chipset: AMD Device 1422, Memory: 7168MB, Disk: 120GB KINGSTON SV300S3, Graphics: AMD Kaveri 1024MB (720MHz), Audio: ATI R6xx HDMI, Monitor: VE228, Network: Realtek RTL8111/8168/8411 OS: Ubuntu 14.04, Kernel: 3.13.0-5-generic (x86_64), Desktop: Unity 7.1.2, Display Server: X Server 1.14.5, Display Driver: radeon 7.2.99, OpenGL: 3.1 Mesa 10.1.0-devel Gallium 0.4, Compiler: GCC 4.8, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 1920x1080 Radeon DPM Enabled + Color Tiling: Processor: AMD A10-7850K APU with Radeon R7 @ 3.70GHz (4 Cores), Motherboard: Gigabyte F2A88XM-D3H, Chipset: AMD Device 1422, Memory: 7168MB, Disk: 120GB KINGSTON SV300S3, Graphics: AMD Kaveri 1024MB (720MHz), Audio: ATI R6xx HDMI, Monitor: VE228, Network: Realtek RTL8111/8168/8411 OS: Ubuntu 14.04, Kernel: 3.13.0-5-generic (x86_64), Desktop: Unity 7.1.2, Display Server: X Server 1.14.5, Display Driver: radeon 7.2.99, OpenGL: 3.1 Mesa 10.1.0-devel Gallium 0.4, Compiler: GCC 4.8, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 1920x1080 OpenArena 0.8.5 Resolution: 1920 x 1080 Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better Mesa 10.1-devel + Linux 3.13 Stock . 31.17 |======== Radeon DPM Enabled ................. 85.23 |====================== Radeon DPM Enabled + Color Tiling .. 129.23 |================================== OpenArena 0.8.8 Resolution: 1920 x 1080 Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better Mesa 10.1-devel + Linux 3.13 Stock . 6.30 |====== Radeon DPM Enabled ................. 20.00 |=================== Radeon DPM Enabled + Color Tiling .. 36.10 |=================================== Reaction Quake 3 1.0 Beta Resolution: 1920 x 1080 Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better Mesa 10.1-devel + Linux 3.13 Stock . 151.57 |==================== Radeon DPM Enabled ................. 259.57 |================================== Radeon DPM Enabled + Color Tiling .. 262.60 |================================== Reaction Quake 3 1.0 Beta Resolution: 1920 x 1080 - Total Frame Time Milliseconds < Lower Is Better Mesa 10.1-devel + Linux 3.13 Stock . MIN: 4 AVG: 7 MAX: 79 Radeon DPM Enabled ................. MIN: 1 AVG: 4 MAX: 94 Radeon DPM Enabled + Color Tiling .. MIN: 1 AVG: 4 MAX: 98 Unigine Sanctuary 2.3 Resolution: 1280 x 1024 Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better Mesa 10.1-devel + Linux 3.13 Stock . 10.46 |=========== Radeon DPM Enabled ................. 33.29 |================================== Radeon DPM Enabled + Color Tiling .. 34.51 |=================================== Unigine Tropics 1.3 Resolution: 1280 x 1024 Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better Mesa 10.1-devel + Linux 3.13 Stock . 7.22 |=========== Radeon DPM Enabled ................. 22.13 |================================== Radeon DPM Enabled + Color Tiling .. 22.57 |=================================== Xonotic 0.7 Resolution: 1920 x 1080 - Effects Quality: Low Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better Mesa 10.1-devel + Linux 3.13 Stock . 31.15 |======== Radeon DPM Enabled ................. 101.30 |========================= Radeon DPM Enabled + Color Tiling .. 139.58 |================================== Xonotic 0.7 Resolution: 1920 x 1080 - Effects Quality: High Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better Mesa 10.1-devel + Linux 3.13 Stock . 17.12 |========= Radeon DPM Enabled ................. 52.23 |========================== Radeon DPM Enabled + Color Tiling .. 69.67 |=================================== GpuTest 0.6.0 Test: Plot3D - Resolution: 1920 x 1080 Points > Higher Is Better Mesa 10.1-devel + Linux 3.13 Stock . 1871 |======== Radeon DPM Enabled ................. 5709 |========================= Radeon DPM Enabled + Color Tiling .. 8272 |==================================== GpuTest 0.6.0 Test: Furmark - Resolution: 1920 x 1080 Points > Higher Is Better Mesa 10.1-devel + Linux 3.13 Stock . 101 |======= Radeon DPM Enabled ................. 271 |================== Radeon DPM Enabled + Color Tiling .. 571 |===================================== GpuTest 0.6.0 Test: Triangle - Resolution: 1920 x 1080 Points > Higher Is Better Mesa 10.1-devel + Linux 3.13 Stock . 4349 |====== Radeon DPM Enabled ................. 15294 |===================== Radeon DPM Enabled + Color Tiling .. 25401 |=================================== GpuTest 0.6.0 Test: Pixmark Piano - Resolution: 1920 x 1080 Points > Higher Is Better Mesa 10.1-devel + Linux 3.13 Stock . 18 |=========== Radeon DPM Enabled ................. 63 |====================================== Radeon DPM Enabled + Color Tiling .. 63 |====================================== GpuTest 0.6.0 Test: Pixmark Volplosion - Resolution: 1920 x 1080 Points > Higher Is Better Mesa 10.1-devel + Linux 3.13 Stock . 141 |========== Radeon DPM Enabled ................. 506 |===================================== Radeon DPM Enabled + Color Tiling .. 511 |===================================== OpenArena 0.8.8 Resolution: 1920 x 1080 - Total Frame Time Milliseconds < Lower Is Better Radeon DPM Enabled ................ MIN: 20.0 AVG: 50.1 MAX: 97.0 Radeon DPM Enabled + Color Tiling . MIN: 15.0 AVG: 27.6 MAX: 96.0