Benchmark comparison of Catalyst vs. RadeonSI Galliunm3D out-of-the-box on Ubuntu 15.04. Benchmarks by Michael Larabel for a future article.
Compare your own system(s) to this result file with the
Phoronix Test Suite by running the command:
phoronix-test-suite benchmark 1504280-BE-HAWAIIVIV36
AMD Radeon R9 Ubuntu 15.04 - Gallium3D vs. Catalyst
Benchmark comparison of Catalyst vs. RadeonSI Galliunm3D out-of-the-box on Ubuntu 15.04. Benchmarks by Michael Larabel for a future article.
Radeon R9 290: RadeonSI Gallium3D:
Processor: Intel Core i7-5960X @ 3.50GHz (16 Cores), Motherboard: Gigabyte X99-UD4-CF, Chipset: Intel Xeon E5 v3/Core, Memory: 16384MB, Disk: 120GB OCZ VECTOR150, Graphics: XFX AMD Radeon R9 290 4096MB, Audio: Intel C610/X99, Monitor: SyncMaster, Network: Intel Connection
OS: Ubuntu 15.04, Kernel: 3.19.0-15-generic (x86_64), Desktop: Unity 7.3.2, Display Server: X Server 1.17.1, Display Driver: radeon 7.5.0, OpenGL: 3.3 Mesa 10.5.2 Gallium 0.4, Compiler: GCC 4.9.2, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 2560x1600
Radeon R9 270X: RadeonSI Gallium3D:
Processor: Intel Core i7-5960X @ 3.50GHz (16 Cores), Motherboard: Gigabyte X99-UD4-CF, Chipset: Intel Xeon E5 v3/Core, Memory: 16384MB, Disk: 120GB OCZ VECTOR150, Graphics: Gigabyte AMD Radeon R9 270X 2048MB, Audio: Intel C610/X99, Monitor: SyncMaster, Network: Intel Connection
OS: Ubuntu 15.04, Kernel: 3.19.0-15-generic (x86_64), Desktop: Unity 7.3.2, Display Server: X Server 1.17.1, Display Driver: radeon 7.5.0, OpenGL: 3.3 Mesa 10.5.2 Gallium 0.4, Compiler: GCC 4.9.2, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 2560x1600
Radeon R9 270X: Catalyst:
Processor: Intel Core i7-5960X @ 3.50GHz (16 Cores), Motherboard: Gigabyte X99-UD4-CF, Chipset: Intel Xeon E5 v3/Core, Memory: 16384MB, Disk: 120GB OCZ VECTOR150, Graphics: Gigabyte AMD Radeon R9 200 2048MB (1100/1400MHz), Audio: Intel C610/X99, Monitor: SyncMaster, Network: Intel Connection
OS: Ubuntu 15.04, Kernel: 3.19.0-15-generic (x86_64), Desktop: Unity 7.3.2, Display Server: X Server 1.17.1, Display Driver: fglrx 15.20.2, OpenGL: 4.4.13374, Compiler: GCC 4.9.2, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 2560x1600
Radeon R9 290: Catalyst:
Processor: Intel Core i7-5960X @ 3.50GHz (16 Cores), Motherboard: Gigabyte X99-UD4-CF, Chipset: Intel Xeon E5 v3/Core, Memory: 16384MB, Disk: 120GB OCZ VECTOR150, Graphics: XFX AMD Radeon R9 200 4096MB (947/1250MHz), Audio: Intel C610/X99, Monitor: SyncMaster, Network: Intel Connection
OS: Ubuntu 15.04, Kernel: 3.19.0-15-generic (x86_64), Desktop: Unity 7.3.2, Display Server: X Server 1.17.1, Display Driver: fglrx 15.20.2, OpenGL: 4.4.13374, Compiler: GCC 4.9.2, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 2560x1600
GpuTest 0.7.0
Test: Plot3D - Resolution: 2560 x 1600
Points > Higher Is Better
Radeon R9 290: RadeonSI Gallium3D .. 43016 |==================
Radeon R9 270X: RadeonSI Gallium3D . 42080 |==================
Radeon R9 270X: Catalyst ........... 56603 |========================
Radeon R9 290: Catalyst ............ 81410 |===================================
GpuTest 0.7.0
Test: Furmark - Resolution: 2560 x 1600
Points > Higher Is Better
Radeon R9 290: RadeonSI Gallium3D .. 2905 |================================
Radeon R9 270X: RadeonSI Gallium3D . 1913 |=====================
Radeon R9 270X: Catalyst ........... 2217 |=========================
Radeon R9 290: Catalyst ............ 3229 |====================================
GpuTest 0.7.0
Test: Triangle - Resolution: 2560 x 1600
Points > Higher Is Better
Radeon R9 290: RadeonSI Gallium3D .. 152242 |============
Radeon R9 270X: RadeonSI Gallium3D . 144233 |===========
Radeon R9 270X: Catalyst ........... 323239 |=========================
Radeon R9 290: Catalyst ............ 438595 |==================================
GpuTest 0.7.0
Test: Pixmark Piano - Resolution: 2560 x 1600
Points > Higher Is Better
Radeon R9 290: RadeonSI Gallium3D .. 349 |==========================
Radeon R9 270X: RadeonSI Gallium3D . 192 |===============
Radeon R9 270X: Catalyst ........... 279 |=====================
Radeon R9 290: Catalyst ............ 489 |=====================================
OpenArena 0.8.8
Resolution: 2560 x 1600
Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better
Radeon R9 290: RadeonSI Gallium3D .. 157.63 |=====================
Radeon R9 270X: RadeonSI Gallium3D . 123.73 |================
Radeon R9 270X: Catalyst ........... 159.50 |=====================
Radeon R9 290: Catalyst ............ 258.80 |==================================
OpenArena 0.8.8
Resolution: 2560 x 1600 - Total Frame Time
Milliseconds < Lower Is Better
Radeon R9 290: RadeonSI Gallium3D .. MIN: 2.0 AVG: 6.2 MAX: 17.0
Radeon R9 270X: RadeonSI Gallium3D . MIN: 3.0 AVG: 7.9 MAX: 30.0
Radeon R9 270X: Catalyst ........... MIN: 1.0 AVG: 6.3 MAX: 45.0
Radeon R9 290: Catalyst ............ MIN: 1.0 AVG: 3.9 MAX: 45.0
SuperTuxKart 0.9
Resolution: 2560 x 1600
Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better
Radeon R9 290: RadeonSI Gallium3D .. 74.25 |===================================
Radeon R9 270X: RadeonSI Gallium3D . 64.51 |==============================
Radeon R9 270X: Catalyst ........... 43.82 |=====================
Radeon R9 290: Catalyst ............ 46.45 |======================
Tesseract 2014-05-12
Resolution: 2560 x 1600
Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better
Radeon R9 290: RadeonSI Gallium3D .. 143.68 |===========================
Radeon R9 270X: RadeonSI Gallium3D . 108.07 |====================
Radeon R9 270X: Catalyst ........... 129.71 |========================
Radeon R9 290: Catalyst ............ 181.20 |==================================
Unigine Heaven 4.0
Resolution: 1920 x 1080 - Mode: Fullscreen
Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better
Radeon R9 290: RadeonSI Gallium3D .. 74.01 |===================================
Radeon R9 270X: RadeonSI Gallium3D . 51.47 |========================
Unigine Tropics 1.3
Resolution: 1920 x 1080 - Mode: Fullscreen
Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better
Radeon R9 290: RadeonSI Gallium3D .. 135.71 |=======================
Radeon R9 270X: RadeonSI Gallium3D . 97.74 |================
Radeon R9 270X: Catalyst ........... 134.54 |=======================
Radeon R9 290: Catalyst ............ 202.96 |==================================
Warsow 1.51
Resolution: 2560 x 1600
Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better
Radeon R9 290: RadeonSI Gallium3D .. 193.83 |===============================
Radeon R9 270X: RadeonSI Gallium3D . 126.53 |====================
Radeon R9 270X: Catalyst ........... 152.03 |========================
Radeon R9 290: Catalyst ............ 215.60 |==================================
Xonotic 0.8
Resolution: 2560 x 1600 - Effects Quality: Low
Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better
Radeon R9 290: RadeonSI Gallium3D .. 240.52 |===============================
Radeon R9 270X: RadeonSI Gallium3D . 238.00 |===============================
Radeon R9 270X: Catalyst ........... 262.21 |==================================
Radeon R9 290: Catalyst ............ 259.19 |==================================
Xonotic 0.8
Resolution: 2560 x 1600 - Effects Quality: High
Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better
Radeon R9 290: RadeonSI Gallium3D .. 188.05 |==============================
Radeon R9 270X: RadeonSI Gallium3D . 169.16 |===========================
Radeon R9 270X: Catalyst ........... 212.21 |==================================
Radeon R9 290: Catalyst ............ 206.01 |=================================
Xonotic 0.8
Resolution: 2560 x 1600 - Effects Quality: Ultra
Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better
Radeon R9 290: RadeonSI Gallium3D .. 164.92 |===============================
Radeon R9 270X: RadeonSI Gallium3D . 137.86 |==========================
Radeon R9 270X: Catalyst ........... 180.56 |==================================
Radeon R9 290: Catalyst ............ 181.82 |==================================
Xonotic 0.8
Resolution: 2560 x 1600 - Effects Quality: Ultimate
Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better
Radeon R9 290: RadeonSI Gallium3D .. 127.27 |=============================
Radeon R9 270X: RadeonSI Gallium3D . 104.07 |========================
Radeon R9 270X: Catalyst ........... 144.09 |=================================
Radeon R9 290: Catalyst ............ 147.48 |==================================