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.
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
Graphics Notes: GLAMOR
Kernel Notes: radeon.dpm=1
Graphics Notes: GLAMOR
Changed Graphics to AMD Kaveri 1024MB (720MHz).
Processor: AMD Phenom II X4 965 @ 3.50GHz (4 Cores), Motherboard: ASUS M4A88TD-M/USB3, Memory: 10240MB, Disk: 1000GB Western Digital WD1002FAEX-0 + 80GB Western Digital WD800JD-60LS, Graphics: Gallium 0.4 on AMD CAPE VERDE, Audio: Realtek ALC892, Monitor: BenQ GW2450
OS: Gentoo 2.2, Kernel: 3.13.0-gentoo-r1 (x86_64), Desktop: Enlightenment, Display Server: X Server 1.14.5, Display Driver: radeon 7.3.99, OpenGL: 3.1 Mesa 10.1.0-devel (git-10dc994) Gallium 0.4, Compiler: GCC 4.8.2 + Clang 3.5 + LLVM 3.5svn, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 1920x1080
Kernel Notes: radeon.dpm=1
Environment Notes: LIBGL_DRIVERS_PATH=/usr/lib64/dri:/usr/lib32/dri
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: 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
Graphics Notes: GLAMOR
Testing initiated at 26 January 2014 17:02 by user phoronix.
Kernel Notes: radeon.dpm=1
Graphics Notes: GLAMOR
Testing initiated at 26 January 2014 19:18 by user phoronix.
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
Kernel Notes: radeon.dpm=1
Graphics Notes: GLAMOR
Testing initiated at 26 January 2014 20:27 by user phoronix.
Processor: AMD Phenom II X4 965 @ 3.50GHz (4 Cores), Motherboard: ASUS M4A88TD-M/USB3, Memory: 10240MB, Disk: 1000GB Western Digital WD1002FAEX-0 + 80GB Western Digital WD800JD-60LS, Graphics: Gallium 0.4 on AMD CAPE VERDE, Audio: Realtek ALC892, Monitor: BenQ GW2450
OS: Gentoo 2.2, Kernel: 3.13.0-gentoo-r1 (x86_64), Desktop: Enlightenment, Display Server: X Server 1.14.5, Display Driver: radeon 7.3.99, OpenGL: 3.1 Mesa 10.1.0-devel (git-10dc994) Gallium 0.4, Compiler: GCC 4.8.2 + Clang 3.5 + LLVM 3.5svn, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 1920x1080
Kernel Notes: radeon.dpm=1
Environment Notes: LIBGL_DRIVERS_PATH=/usr/lib64/dri:/usr/lib32/dri
Graphics Notes: GLAMOR
Testing initiated at 28 January 2014 11:02 by user alecks.