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

R7-250_radeon-module-only: 

	Processor: AMD FX-8350 Eight-Core @ 4.00GHz (8 Cores), Motherboard: Gigabyte 990FXA-UD3, Chipset: AMD nee ATI RD890, Memory: 16384MB, Disk: 2 x 120GB INTEL SSDSC2CW12 + 1000GB Seagate ST1000DM003-9YN1, Graphics: LLVMpipe, Audio: AMD nee ATI SBx00 Azalia, Network: Realtek RTL8111/8168B

	OS: Debian 7.7, Kernel: 3.16-0.bpo.3-amd64 (x86_64), Desktop: Xfce 4.8, Display Server: X Server 1.12.4, Display Driver: radeon 6.14.99, OpenGL: 2.1 Mesa 8.0.5 Gallium 0.4, Compiler: GCC 4.7, 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 |=========================================
R7-250_radeon-module-only . 122.04 |=============


QGears2
Rendering: OpenGL - Test: Gears
Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better
modesetting ............... 434.24 |===========================================
radeon .................... 253.03 |=========================
radeon-dri2 ............... 419.10 |==========================================
R7-250_radeon-module-only . 135.67 |=============


QGears2
Rendering: OpenGL - Test: Image Scaling
Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better
modesetting ............... 6300.29 |==========================================
radeon .................... 3360.63 |======================
radeon-dri2 ............... 4561.55 |==============================
R7-250_radeon-module-only . 577.72  |====


QGears2
Rendering: XRender Extension - Test: Text
Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better
modesetting ............... 198.22 |=========================
radeon .................... 196.11 |=========================
radeon-dri2 ............... 197.02 |=========================
R7-250_radeon-module-only . 340.44 |===========================================


QGears2
Rendering: XRender Extension - Test: Gears
Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better
modesetting ............... 179.38 |======================================
radeon .................... 178.01 |=====================================
radeon-dri2 ............... 177.91 |=====================================
R7-250_radeon-module-only . 205.24 |===========================================


QGears2
Rendering: XRender Extension - Test: Image Scaling
Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better
modesetting ............... 447.63 |=====================
radeon .................... 439.99 |=====================
radeon-dri2 ............... 440.78 |=====================
R7-250_radeon-module-only . 903.12 |===========================================


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 |===========================================================