Open Source Graphics
A Graphics comparison via the Phoronix Test Suite for a future article on Phoronix.com. Mesa 10.3 + Linux 3.17.
AMD Radeon HD 4850
Processor: Intel Core i7-4770K @ 3.90GHz (8 Cores), Motherboard: Gigabyte Z97-HD3, Chipset: Intel 4th Gen Core DRAM, Memory: 8192MB, Disk: 150GB Western Digital WD1500HLHX-0, Graphics: Intel Xeon E3-1200 v3/4th Gen Core IGP 512MB, Audio: Intel Xeon E3-1200 v3/4th, Monitor: DELL S2409W, Network: Realtek RTL8111/8168/8411
OS: Ubuntu 14.10, Kernel: 3.17.0-999-generic (x86_64), Desktop: Unity 7.3.1, Display Server: X Server 1.16.0, Display Driver: radeon 7.4.0, OpenGL: 3.3 Mesa 10.3.0 Gallium 0.4, Compiler: GCC 4.9.1, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 1920x1080
Processor Notes: Scaling Governor: intel_pstate powersave
Graphics Notes: EXA
AMD Radeon HD 4870
OS: Ubuntu 14.10, Kernel: 3.17.0-999-generic (x86_64), Desktop: Unity 7.3.1, Display Server: X Server 1.16.0, OpenGL: 3.3 Mesa 10.3.0 Gallium 0.4, Compiler: GCC 4.9.1, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 1920x1080
AMD Radeon HD 5770
Changed Graphics to Intel Xeon E3-1200 v3/4th Gen Core IGP 1024MB.
AMD Radeon HD 6450
Changed Graphics to Intel CAICOS (ChipID = 0x6779) 1024MB.
AMD Radeon HD 6570
Changed Graphics to Intel TURKS (ChipID = 0x6759) 512MB.
AMD Radeon HD 6870
Processor: Intel Core i7-4770K @ 3.90GHz (8 Cores), Motherboard: Gigabyte Z97-HD3, Chipset: Intel 4th Gen Core DRAM, Memory: 8192MB, Disk: 150GB Western Digital WD1500HLHX-0, Graphics: Intel Xeon E3-1200 v3/4th Gen Core IGP 1024MB, Audio: Intel Xeon E3-1200 v3/4th, Monitor: DELL S2409W, Network: Realtek RTL8111/8168/8411
OS: Ubuntu 14.10, Kernel: 3.17.0-999-generic (x86_64), Desktop: Unity 7.3.1, Display Server: X Server 1.16.0, Display Driver: radeon 7.4.0, OpenGL: 3.3 Mesa 10.3.0 Gallium 0.4, Compiler: GCC 4.9.1, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 1920x1080
AMD Radeon HD 6950
Processor: Intel Core i7-4770K @ 3.90GHz (8 Cores), Motherboard: Gigabyte Z97-HD3, Chipset: Intel 4th Gen Core DRAM, Memory: 8192MB, Disk: 150GB Western Digital WD1500HLHX-0, Graphics: Intel Xeon E3-1200 v3/4th Gen Core IGP 2048MB, Audio: Intel Xeon E3-1200 v3/4th, Monitor: DELL S2409W, Network: Realtek RTL8111/8168/8411
OS: Ubuntu 14.10, Kernel: 3.17.0-999-generic (x86_64), Desktop: Unity 7.3.1, Display Server: X Server 1.16.0, OpenGL: 3.3 Mesa 10.3.0 Gallium 0.4, Compiler: GCC 4.9.1, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 1920x1080
AMD Radeon HD 7850
Changed Graphics to Intel PITCAIRN (ChipID = 0x6819) 1024MB.
Graphics Change: GLAMOR
AMD Radeon HD 7950
Processor: Intel Core i7-4770K @ 3.90GHz (8 Cores), Motherboard: Gigabyte Z97-HD3, Chipset: Intel 4th Gen Core DRAM, Memory: 8192MB, Disk: 150GB Western Digital WD1500HLHX-0, Graphics: Intel TAHITI (ChipID = 0x679a) 3072MB, Audio: Intel Xeon E3-1200 v3/4th, Monitor: DELL S2409W, Network: Realtek RTL8111/8168/8411
OS: Ubuntu 14.10, Kernel: 3.17.0-999-generic (x86_64), Desktop: Unity 7.3.1, Display Server: X Server 1.16.0, Display Driver: radeon 7.4.0, OpenGL: 3.3 Mesa 10.3.0 Gallium 0.4, Compiler: GCC 4.9.1, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 1920x1080
AMD Radeon R7 260X
Processor: Intel Core i7-4770K @ 3.90GHz (8 Cores), Motherboard: Gigabyte Z97-HD3, Chipset: Intel 4th Gen Core DRAM, Memory: 8192MB, Disk: 150GB Western Digital WD1500HLHX-0, Graphics: Intel BONAIRE (ChipID = 0x6658) 2048MB, Audio: Intel Xeon E3-1200 v3/4th, Monitor: DELL S2409W, Network: Realtek RTL8111/8168/8411
OS: Ubuntu 14.10, Kernel: 3.17.0-999-generic (x86_64), Desktop: Unity 7.3.1, Display Server: X Server 1.16.0, OpenGL: 3.3 Mesa 10.3.0 Gallium 0.4, Compiler: GCC 4.9.1, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 1920x1080
AMD Radeon R9 270X
Processor: Intel Core i7-4770K @ 3.90GHz (8 Cores), Motherboard: Gigabyte Z97-HD3, Chipset: Intel 4th Gen Core DRAM, Memory: 8192MB, Disk: 150GB Western Digital WD1500HLHX-0, Graphics: Intel PITCAIRN (ChipID = 0x6810) 2048MB, Audio: Intel Xeon E3-1200 v3/4th, Monitor: DELL S2409W, Network: Realtek RTL8111/8168/8411
OS: Ubuntu 14.10, Kernel: 3.17.0-999-generic (x86_64), Desktop: Unity 7.3.1, Display Server: X Server 1.16.0, Display Driver: radeon 7.4.0, OpenGL: 3.3 Mesa 10.3.0 Gallium 0.4, Compiler: GCC 4.9.1, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 1920x1080
Intel HD Graphics 4600
Processor: Intel Core i7-4770K @ 3.90GHz (8 Cores), Motherboard: Gigabyte Z97-HD3, Chipset: Intel 4th Gen Core DRAM, Memory: 8192MB, Disk: 150GB Western Digital WD1500HLHX-0, Graphics: Intel HD 4600 (1250MHz), Audio: Intel Xeon E3-1200 v3/4th, Monitor: DELL S2409W, Network: Realtek RTL8111/8168/8411
OS: Ubuntu 14.10, Kernel: 3.17.0-999-generic (x86_64), Desktop: Unity 7.3.1, Display Server: X Server 1.16.0, Display Driver: intel 2.99.914, OpenGL: 3.3 Mesa 10.3.0, Compiler: GCC 4.9.1, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 1920x1080
Processor Notes: Scaling Governor: intel_pstate powersave
Graphics Notes: SNA
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 680
Processor: Intel Core i7-4770K @ 3.90GHz (8 Cores), Motherboard: Gigabyte Z97-HD3, Chipset: Intel 4th Gen Core DRAM, Memory: 8192MB, Disk: 150GB Western Digital WD1500HLHX-0, Graphics: Intel HD 4600 2048MB (862/1620MHz), Audio: Intel Xeon E3-1200 v3/4th, Monitor: DELL S2409W, Network: Realtek RTL8111/8168/8411
OS: Ubuntu 14.10, Kernel: 3.17.0-999-generic (x86_64), Desktop: Unity 7.3.1, Display Server: X Server 1.16.0, Display Driver: nouveau 1.0.11, OpenGL: 3.3 Mesa 10.3.0 Gallium 0.4, Compiler: GCC 4.9.1, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 1920x1080
Kernel Notes: nouveau.pstate=1
Processor Notes: Scaling Governor: intel_pstate powersave
Graphics Notes: EXA
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 770
Processor: Intel Core i7-4770K @ 3.90GHz (8 Cores), Motherboard: Gigabyte Z97-HD3, Chipset: Intel 4th Gen Core DRAM, Memory: 8192MB, Disk: 150GB Western Digital WD1500HLHX-0, Graphics: Intel HD 4600 2048MB (1250MHz), Audio: Intel Xeon E3-1200 v3/4th, Monitor: DELL S2409W, Network: Realtek RTL8111/8168/8411
OS: Ubuntu 14.10, Kernel: 3.17.0-999-generic (x86_64), Desktop: Unity 7.3.1, Display Server: X Server 1.16.0, Display Driver: intel 2.99.914, OpenGL: 3.3 Mesa 10.3.0 Gallium 0.4, Compiler: GCC 4.9.1, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 1920x1080
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 780 Ti
Changed Graphics to Intel HD 4600 3072MB (1250MHz).
Xonotic
GpuTest
Xonotic
Tesseract
Tesseract is a fork of Cube 2 Sauerbraten with numerous graphics and game-play improvements. Tesseract has been in development since 2012 while its first release happened in May of 2014. Learn more via the OpenBenchmarking.org test page.
AMD Radeon HD 4850
Processor: Intel Core i7-4770K @ 3.90GHz (8 Cores), Motherboard: Gigabyte Z97-HD3, Chipset: Intel 4th Gen Core DRAM, Memory: 8192MB, Disk: 150GB Western Digital WD1500HLHX-0, Graphics: Intel Xeon E3-1200 v3/4th Gen Core IGP 512MB, Audio: Intel Xeon E3-1200 v3/4th, Monitor: DELL S2409W, Network: Realtek RTL8111/8168/8411
OS: Ubuntu 14.10, Kernel: 3.17.0-999-generic (x86_64), Desktop: Unity 7.3.1, Display Server: X Server 1.16.0, Display Driver: radeon 7.4.0, OpenGL: 3.3 Mesa 10.3.0 Gallium 0.4, Compiler: GCC 4.9.1, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 1920x1080
Processor Notes: Scaling Governor: intel_pstate powersave
Graphics Notes: EXA
Testing initiated at 2 October 2014 08:07 by user phoronix.
AMD Radeon HD 4870
Processor: Intel Core i7-4770K @ 3.90GHz (8 Cores), Motherboard: Gigabyte Z97-HD3, Chipset: Intel 4th Gen Core DRAM, Memory: 8192MB, Disk: 150GB Western Digital WD1500HLHX-0, Graphics: Intel Xeon E3-1200 v3/4th Gen Core IGP 512MB, Audio: Intel Xeon E3-1200 v3/4th, Monitor: DELL S2409W, Network: Realtek RTL8111/8168/8411
OS: Ubuntu 14.10, Kernel: 3.17.0-999-generic (x86_64), Desktop: Unity 7.3.1, Display Server: X Server 1.16.0, OpenGL: 3.3 Mesa 10.3.0 Gallium 0.4, Compiler: GCC 4.9.1, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 1920x1080
Processor Notes: Scaling Governor: intel_pstate powersave
Graphics Notes: EXA
Testing initiated at 2 October 2014 10:29 by user phoronix.
AMD Radeon HD 5770
Processor: Intel Core i7-4770K @ 3.90GHz (8 Cores), Motherboard: Gigabyte Z97-HD3, Chipset: Intel 4th Gen Core DRAM, Memory: 8192MB, Disk: 150GB Western Digital WD1500HLHX-0, Graphics: Intel Xeon E3-1200 v3/4th Gen Core IGP 1024MB, Audio: Intel Xeon E3-1200 v3/4th, Monitor: DELL S2409W, Network: Realtek RTL8111/8168/8411
OS: Ubuntu 14.10, Kernel: 3.17.0-999-generic (x86_64), Desktop: Unity 7.3.1, Display Server: X Server 1.16.0, OpenGL: 3.3 Mesa 10.3.0 Gallium 0.4, Compiler: GCC 4.9.1, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 1920x1080
Processor Notes: Scaling Governor: intel_pstate powersave
Graphics Notes: EXA
Testing initiated at 1 October 2014 12:41 by user phoronix.
AMD Radeon HD 6450
Processor: Intel Core i7-4770K @ 3.90GHz (8 Cores), Motherboard: Gigabyte Z97-HD3, Chipset: Intel 4th Gen Core DRAM, Memory: 8192MB, Disk: 150GB Western Digital WD1500HLHX-0, Graphics: Intel CAICOS (ChipID = 0x6779) 1024MB, Audio: Intel Xeon E3-1200 v3/4th, Monitor: DELL S2409W, Network: Realtek RTL8111/8168/8411
OS: Ubuntu 14.10, Kernel: 3.17.0-999-generic (x86_64), Desktop: Unity 7.3.1, Display Server: X Server 1.16.0, OpenGL: 3.3 Mesa 10.3.0 Gallium 0.4, Compiler: GCC 4.9.1, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 1920x1080
Processor Notes: Scaling Governor: intel_pstate powersave
Graphics Notes: EXA
Testing initiated at 2 October 2014 08:50 by user phoronix.
AMD Radeon HD 6570
Processor: Intel Core i7-4770K @ 3.90GHz (8 Cores), Motherboard: Gigabyte Z97-HD3, Chipset: Intel 4th Gen Core DRAM, Memory: 8192MB, Disk: 150GB Western Digital WD1500HLHX-0, Graphics: Intel TURKS (ChipID = 0x6759) 512MB, Audio: Intel Xeon E3-1200 v3/4th, Monitor: DELL S2409W, Network: Realtek RTL8111/8168/8411
OS: Ubuntu 14.10, Kernel: 3.17.0-999-generic (x86_64), Desktop: Unity 7.3.1, Display Server: X Server 1.16.0, OpenGL: 3.3 Mesa 10.3.0 Gallium 0.4, Compiler: GCC 4.9.1, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 1920x1080
Processor Notes: Scaling Governor: intel_pstate powersave
Graphics Notes: EXA
Testing initiated at 1 October 2014 13:16 by user phoronix.
AMD Radeon HD 6870
Processor: Intel Core i7-4770K @ 3.90GHz (8 Cores), Motherboard: Gigabyte Z97-HD3, Chipset: Intel 4th Gen Core DRAM, Memory: 8192MB, Disk: 150GB Western Digital WD1500HLHX-0, Graphics: Intel Xeon E3-1200 v3/4th Gen Core IGP 1024MB, Audio: Intel Xeon E3-1200 v3/4th, Monitor: DELL S2409W, Network: Realtek RTL8111/8168/8411
OS: Ubuntu 14.10, Kernel: 3.17.0-999-generic (x86_64), Desktop: Unity 7.3.1, Display Server: X Server 1.16.0, Display Driver: radeon 7.4.0, OpenGL: 3.3 Mesa 10.3.0 Gallium 0.4, Compiler: GCC 4.9.1, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 1920x1080
Processor Notes: Scaling Governor: intel_pstate powersave
Graphics Notes: EXA
Testing initiated at 1 October 2014 15:29 by user phoronix.
AMD Radeon HD 6950
Processor: Intel Core i7-4770K @ 3.90GHz (8 Cores), Motherboard: Gigabyte Z97-HD3, Chipset: Intel 4th Gen Core DRAM, Memory: 8192MB, Disk: 150GB Western Digital WD1500HLHX-0, Graphics: Intel Xeon E3-1200 v3/4th Gen Core IGP 2048MB, Audio: Intel Xeon E3-1200 v3/4th, Monitor: DELL S2409W, Network: Realtek RTL8111/8168/8411
OS: Ubuntu 14.10, Kernel: 3.17.0-999-generic (x86_64), Desktop: Unity 7.3.1, Display Server: X Server 1.16.0, OpenGL: 3.3 Mesa 10.3.0 Gallium 0.4, Compiler: GCC 4.9.1, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 1920x1080
Processor Notes: Scaling Governor: intel_pstate powersave
Graphics Notes: EXA
Testing initiated at 1 October 2014 16:06 by user phoronix.
AMD Radeon HD 7850
Processor: Intel Core i7-4770K @ 3.90GHz (8 Cores), Motherboard: Gigabyte Z97-HD3, Chipset: Intel 4th Gen Core DRAM, Memory: 8192MB, Disk: 150GB Western Digital WD1500HLHX-0, Graphics: Intel PITCAIRN (ChipID = 0x6819) 1024MB, Audio: Intel Xeon E3-1200 v3/4th, Monitor: DELL S2409W, Network: Realtek RTL8111/8168/8411
OS: Ubuntu 14.10, Kernel: 3.17.0-999-generic (x86_64), Desktop: Unity 7.3.1, Display Server: X Server 1.16.0, OpenGL: 3.3 Mesa 10.3.0 Gallium 0.4, Compiler: GCC 4.9.1, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 1920x1080
Processor Notes: Scaling Governor: intel_pstate powersave
Graphics Notes: GLAMOR
Testing initiated at 1 October 2014 21:52 by user phoronix.
AMD Radeon HD 7950
Processor: Intel Core i7-4770K @ 3.90GHz (8 Cores), Motherboard: Gigabyte Z97-HD3, Chipset: Intel 4th Gen Core DRAM, Memory: 8192MB, Disk: 150GB Western Digital WD1500HLHX-0, Graphics: Intel TAHITI (ChipID = 0x679a) 3072MB, Audio: Intel Xeon E3-1200 v3/4th, Monitor: DELL S2409W, Network: Realtek RTL8111/8168/8411
OS: Ubuntu 14.10, Kernel: 3.17.0-999-generic (x86_64), Desktop: Unity 7.3.1, Display Server: X Server 1.16.0, Display Driver: radeon 7.4.0, OpenGL: 3.3 Mesa 10.3.0 Gallium 0.4, Compiler: GCC 4.9.1, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 1920x1080
Processor Notes: Scaling Governor: intel_pstate powersave
Graphics Notes: GLAMOR
Testing initiated at 1 October 2014 21:09 by user phoronix.
AMD Radeon R7 260X
Processor: Intel Core i7-4770K @ 3.90GHz (8 Cores), Motherboard: Gigabyte Z97-HD3, Chipset: Intel 4th Gen Core DRAM, Memory: 8192MB, Disk: 150GB Western Digital WD1500HLHX-0, Graphics: Intel BONAIRE (ChipID = 0x6658) 2048MB, Audio: Intel Xeon E3-1200 v3/4th, Monitor: DELL S2409W, Network: Realtek RTL8111/8168/8411
OS: Ubuntu 14.10, Kernel: 3.17.0-999-generic (x86_64), Desktop: Unity 7.3.1, Display Server: X Server 1.16.0, OpenGL: 3.3 Mesa 10.3.0 Gallium 0.4, Compiler: GCC 4.9.1, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 1920x1080
Processor Notes: Scaling Governor: intel_pstate powersave
Graphics Notes: GLAMOR
Testing initiated at 1 October 2014 21:30 by user phoronix.
AMD Radeon R9 270X
Processor: Intel Core i7-4770K @ 3.90GHz (8 Cores), Motherboard: Gigabyte Z97-HD3, Chipset: Intel 4th Gen Core DRAM, Memory: 8192MB, Disk: 150GB Western Digital WD1500HLHX-0, Graphics: Intel PITCAIRN (ChipID = 0x6810) 2048MB, Audio: Intel Xeon E3-1200 v3/4th, Monitor: DELL S2409W, Network: Realtek RTL8111/8168/8411
OS: Ubuntu 14.10, Kernel: 3.17.0-999-generic (x86_64), Desktop: Unity 7.3.1, Display Server: X Server 1.16.0, Display Driver: radeon 7.4.0, OpenGL: 3.3 Mesa 10.3.0 Gallium 0.4, Compiler: GCC 4.9.1, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 1920x1080
Processor Notes: Scaling Governor: intel_pstate powersave
Graphics Notes: GLAMOR
Testing initiated at 1 October 2014 22:15 by user phoronix.
Intel HD Graphics 4600
Processor: Intel Core i7-4770K @ 3.90GHz (8 Cores), Motherboard: Gigabyte Z97-HD3, Chipset: Intel 4th Gen Core DRAM, Memory: 8192MB, Disk: 150GB Western Digital WD1500HLHX-0, Graphics: Intel HD 4600 (1250MHz), Audio: Intel Xeon E3-1200 v3/4th, Monitor: DELL S2409W, Network: Realtek RTL8111/8168/8411
OS: Ubuntu 14.10, Kernel: 3.17.0-999-generic (x86_64), Desktop: Unity 7.3.1, Display Server: X Server 1.16.0, Display Driver: intel 2.99.914, OpenGL: 3.3 Mesa 10.3.0, Compiler: GCC 4.9.1, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 1920x1080
Processor Notes: Scaling Governor: intel_pstate powersave
Graphics Notes: SNA
Testing initiated at 1 October 2014 11:39 by user phoronix.
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 680
Processor: Intel Core i7-4770K @ 3.90GHz (8 Cores), Motherboard: Gigabyte Z97-HD3, Chipset: Intel 4th Gen Core DRAM, Memory: 8192MB, Disk: 150GB Western Digital WD1500HLHX-0, Graphics: Intel HD 4600 2048MB (862/1620MHz), Audio: Intel Xeon E3-1200 v3/4th, Monitor: DELL S2409W, Network: Realtek RTL8111/8168/8411
OS: Ubuntu 14.10, Kernel: 3.17.0-999-generic (x86_64), Desktop: Unity 7.3.1, Display Server: X Server 1.16.0, Display Driver: nouveau 1.0.11, OpenGL: 3.3 Mesa 10.3.0 Gallium 0.4, Compiler: GCC 4.9.1, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 1920x1080
Kernel Notes: nouveau.pstate=1
Processor Notes: Scaling Governor: intel_pstate powersave
Graphics Notes: EXA
Testing initiated at 2 October 2014 12:31 by user phoronix.
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 770
Processor: Intel Core i7-4770K @ 3.90GHz (8 Cores), Motherboard: Gigabyte Z97-HD3, Chipset: Intel 4th Gen Core DRAM, Memory: 8192MB, Disk: 150GB Western Digital WD1500HLHX-0, Graphics: Intel HD 4600 2048MB (1250MHz), Audio: Intel Xeon E3-1200 v3/4th, Monitor: DELL S2409W, Network: Realtek RTL8111/8168/8411
OS: Ubuntu 14.10, Kernel: 3.17.0-999-generic (x86_64), Desktop: Unity 7.3.1, Display Server: X Server 1.16.0, Display Driver: intel 2.99.914, OpenGL: 3.3 Mesa 10.3.0 Gallium 0.4, Compiler: GCC 4.9.1, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 1920x1080
Kernel Notes: nouveau.pstate=1
Processor Notes: Scaling Governor: intel_pstate powersave
Graphics Notes: EXA
Testing initiated at 2 October 2014 11:24 by user phoronix.
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 780 Ti
Processor: Intel Core i7-4770K @ 3.90GHz (8 Cores), Motherboard: Gigabyte Z97-HD3, Chipset: Intel 4th Gen Core DRAM, Memory: 8192MB, Disk: 150GB Western Digital WD1500HLHX-0, Graphics: Intel HD 4600 3072MB (1250MHz), Audio: Intel Xeon E3-1200 v3/4th, Monitor: DELL S2409W, Network: Realtek RTL8111/8168/8411
OS: Ubuntu 14.10, Kernel: 3.17.0-999-generic (x86_64), Desktop: Unity 7.3.1, Display Server: X Server 1.16.0, Display Driver: intel 2.99.914, OpenGL: 3.3 Mesa 10.3.0 Gallium 0.4, Compiler: GCC 4.9.1, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 1920x1080
Kernel Notes: nouveau.pstate=1
Processor Notes: Scaling Governor: intel_pstate powersave
Graphics Notes: EXA
Testing initiated at 2 October 2014 12:01 by user phoronix.