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.
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AMD Kaveri Open-Source Graphics Testing,
"Reaction Quake 3 1.0 Beta - Resolution: 1920 x 1080 - Total Frame Time",
Lower Results Are Better
"Mesa 10.1-devel + Linux 3.13 Stock",
"Radeon DPM Enabled",
"Radeon DPM Enabled + Color Tiling",
"3.13.0-gentoo-r1 + Radeon 7770 + DPM + Color Tiling",
"OpenArena 0.8.5 - Resolution: 1920 x 1080",
Higher Results Are Better
"Mesa 10.1-devel + Linux 3.13 Stock",31.2,31.2,31.1
"Radeon DPM Enabled",87.1,84.3,84.3
"Radeon DPM Enabled + Color Tiling",129.5,129.2,129
"3.13.0-gentoo-r1 + Radeon 7770 + DPM + Color Tiling",278.1,277.2,277.7
"GpuTest 0.6.0 - Test: Plot3D - Resolution: 1920 x 1080",
Higher Results Are Better
"Mesa 10.1-devel + Linux 3.13 Stock",1871,1871,1871
"Radeon DPM Enabled",5706,5713,5709
"Radeon DPM Enabled + Color Tiling",8256,8277,8282
"3.13.0-gentoo-r1 + Radeon 7770 + DPM + Color Tiling",16284,16378,16384
"Unigine Tropics 1.3 - Resolution: 1280 x 1024",
Higher Results Are Better
"Mesa 10.1-devel + Linux 3.13 Stock",7.21757,7.22214,7.21991
"Radeon DPM Enabled",22.1389,22.1254,22.1325
"Radeon DPM Enabled + Color Tiling",22.5687,22.5717,22.5649
"3.13.0-gentoo-r1 + Radeon 7770 + DPM + Color Tiling",58.5133,59.8107,58.1353
"Xonotic 0.7 - Resolution: 1920 x 1080 - Effects Quality: High",
Higher Results Are Better
"Mesa 10.1-devel + Linux 3.13 Stock",17.1224044,17.1238817,17.1220765
"Radeon DPM Enabled",52.2135492,52.2253891,52.2388609
"Radeon DPM Enabled + Color Tiling",69.6830383,69.5279276,69.7868016
"3.13.0-gentoo-r1 + Radeon 7770 + DPM + Color Tiling",128.821456,129.2659265,129.1371676
"GpuTest 0.6.0 - Test: Pixmark Volplosion - Resolution: 1920 x 1080",
Higher Results Are Better
"Mesa 10.1-devel + Linux 3.13 Stock",141,141,141
"Radeon DPM Enabled",506,506,506
"Radeon DPM Enabled + Color Tiling",511,511,511
"3.13.0-gentoo-r1 + Radeon 7770 + DPM + Color Tiling",996,994,996
"Unigine Sanctuary 2.3 - Resolution: 1280 x 1024",
Higher Results Are Better
"Mesa 10.1-devel + Linux 3.13 Stock",10.4602,10.4623,10.4691
"Radeon DPM Enabled",33.2843,33.2946,33.2906
"Radeon DPM Enabled + Color Tiling",34.5281,34.4979,34.5073
"3.13.0-gentoo-r1 + Radeon 7770 + DPM + Color Tiling",72.6942,72.617,72.7433
"GpuTest 0.6.0 - Test: Pixmark Piano - Resolution: 1920 x 1080",
Higher Results Are Better
"Mesa 10.1-devel + Linux 3.13 Stock",18,18,18
"Radeon DPM Enabled",63,63,63
"Radeon DPM Enabled + Color Tiling",63,63,63
"3.13.0-gentoo-r1 + Radeon 7770 + DPM + Color Tiling",120,120,120
"Xonotic 0.7 - Resolution: 1920 x 1080 - Effects Quality: Low",
Higher Results Are Better
"Mesa 10.1-devel + Linux 3.13 Stock",31.1483872,31.1647355,31.1454002
"Radeon DPM Enabled",101.2561123,101.4114545,101.2433434
"Radeon DPM Enabled + Color Tiling",139.7285213,139.6028464,139.4175709
"3.13.0-gentoo-r1 + Radeon 7770 + DPM + Color Tiling",186.6499565,185.8247999,186.1491396
"OpenArena 0.8.8 - Resolution: 1920 x 1080 - Total Frame Time",
Lower Results Are Better
"Radeon DPM Enabled",
"Radeon DPM Enabled + Color Tiling",
"3.13.0-gentoo-r1 + Radeon 7770 + DPM + Color Tiling",
"GpuTest 0.6.0 - Test: Triangle - Resolution: 1920 x 1080",
Higher Results Are Better
"Mesa 10.1-devel + Linux 3.13 Stock",4348,4348,4350
"Radeon DPM Enabled",15299,15288,15296
"Radeon DPM Enabled + Color Tiling",25396,25401,25407
"3.13.0-gentoo-r1 + Radeon 7770 + DPM + Color Tiling",85711,85673,85807
"OpenArena 0.8.8 - Resolution: 1920 x 1080",
Higher Results Are Better
"Mesa 10.1-devel + Linux 3.13 Stock",6.3,6.3,6.3
"Radeon DPM Enabled",20,20,20
"Radeon DPM Enabled + Color Tiling",36.1,36.1,36.1
"3.13.0-gentoo-r1 + Radeon 7770 + DPM + Color Tiling",102.5,102.6,102.6
"GpuTest 0.6.0 - Test: Furmark - Resolution: 1920 x 1080",
Higher Results Are Better
"Mesa 10.1-devel + Linux 3.13 Stock",101,101,101
"Radeon DPM Enabled",271,271,271
"Radeon DPM Enabled + Color Tiling",571,571,571
"3.13.0-gentoo-r1 + Radeon 7770 + DPM + Color Tiling",1572,1572,1571
"Reaction Quake 3 1.0 Beta - Resolution: 1920 x 1080",
Higher Results Are Better
"Mesa 10.1-devel + Linux 3.13 Stock",151.6,152.1,151
"Radeon DPM Enabled",261.4,257.9,259.4
"Radeon DPM Enabled + Color Tiling",264.6,263.7,259.5
"3.13.0-gentoo-r1 + Radeon 7770 + DPM + Color Tiling",159.7,159.7,159.9