modesetting vs radeon
A Display Driver comparison via the Phoronix Test Suite.


modesetting: 

	Processor: Intel Core i5-3330 @ 3.20GHz (4 Cores), Motherboard: ASRock H61M-ITX, Chipset: Intel Xeon E3-1200 v2/3rd, Memory: 8192MB, Disk: 160GB SAMSUNG HD161HJ + 60GB SPCC Solid State + 320GB SAMSUNG HD321KJ, Graphics: MSI AMD Radeon HD 7790/8770 / R9 260 OEM 2048MB, Audio: Intel 6 /C200, Monitor: H225W, Network: Realtek RTL8111/8168/8411

	OS: openSUSE 20141208, Kernel: 3.18.0-3-desktop (x86_64), Desktop: KDE 4.14.3, Display Server: X Server 1.16.99.901 (1.17.0 RC 1), Display Driver: modesetting 1.16.99, OpenGL: 3.3 Mesa 10.5.0-devel Gallium 0.4, Compiler: GCC 4.8.3 + Clang 3.6.0 + LLVM 3.6.0svn, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 1920x1080

radeon: 

	Processor: Intel Core i5-3330 @ 3.20GHz (4 Cores), Motherboard: ASRock H61M-ITX, Chipset: Intel Xeon E3-1200 v2/3rd, Memory: 8192MB, Disk: 160GB SAMSUNG HD161HJ + 60GB SPCC Solid State + 320GB SAMSUNG HD321KJ, Graphics: MSI AMD Radeon HD 7790/8770 / R9 260 OEM 2048MB, Audio: Intel 6 /C200, Monitor: H225W, Network: Realtek RTL8111/8168/8411

	OS: openSUSE 20141208, Kernel: 3.18.0-3-desktop (x86_64), Desktop: KDE 4.14.3, Display Server: X Server 1.16.99.901 (1.17.0 RC 1), Display Driver: radeon 7.5.99, OpenGL: 3.3 Mesa 10.5.0-devel Gallium 0.4, Compiler: GCC 4.8.3 + Clang 3.6.0 + LLVM 3.6.0svn, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 1920x1080

radeon-dri2: 

	Processor: Intel Core i5-3330 @ 3.20GHz (4 Cores), Motherboard: ASRock H61M-ITX, Chipset: Intel Xeon E3-1200 v2/3rd, Memory: 8192MB, Disk: 160GB SAMSUNG HD161HJ + 60GB SPCC Solid State + 320GB SAMSUNG HD321KJ, Graphics: MSI AMD Radeon HD 7790/8770 / R9 260 OEM 2048MB, Audio: Intel 6 /C200, Monitor: H225W, Network: Realtek RTL8111/8168/8411

	OS: openSUSE 20141208, Kernel: 3.18.0-3-desktop (x86_64), Desktop: KDE 4.14.3, Display Server: X Server 1.16.99.901 (1.17.0 RC 1), Display Driver: radeon 7.5.99, OpenGL: 3.3 Mesa 10.5.0-devel Gallium 0.4, Compiler: GCC 4.8.3 + Clang 3.6.0 + LLVM 3.6.0svn, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 1920x1080


QGears2
Rendering: OpenGL - Test: Text
Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better
modesetting . 391.92 |=========================================================
radeon ...... 238.37 |===================================
radeon-dri2 . 376.23 |=======================================================


QGears2
Rendering: OpenGL - Test: Gears
Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better
modesetting . 434.24 |=========================================================
radeon ...... 253.03 |=================================
radeon-dri2 . 419.10 |=======================================================


QGears2
Rendering: OpenGL - Test: Image Scaling
Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better
modesetting . 6300.29 |========================================================
radeon ...... 3360.63 |==============================
radeon-dri2 . 4561.55 |=========================================


QGears2
Rendering: XRender Extension - Test: Text
Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better
modesetting . 198.22 |=========================================================
radeon ...... 196.11 |========================================================
radeon-dri2 . 197.02 |=========================================================


QGears2
Rendering: XRender Extension - Test: Gears
Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better
modesetting . 179.38 |=========================================================
radeon ...... 178.01 |=========================================================
radeon-dri2 . 177.91 |=========================================================


QGears2
Rendering: XRender Extension - Test: Image Scaling
Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better
modesetting . 447.63 |=========================================================
radeon ...... 439.99 |========================================================
radeon-dri2 . 440.78 |========================================================


GpuTest 0.7.0
Test: Plot3D - Resolution: 1920 x 1080
Points > Higher Is Better
modesetting . 43550 |==========================================================
radeon ...... 30681 |=========================================
radeon-dri2 . 38193 |===================================================


GpuTest 0.7.0
Test: Furmark - Resolution: 1920 x 1080
Points > Higher Is Better
modesetting . 1679 |===========================================================
radeon ...... 1680 |===========================================================
radeon-dri2 . 1681 |===========================================================