AMD Open-Source vs. Catalyst Linux Radeon Tests Benchmarks by Michael Larabel for a future article on Phoronix. Open-Source: HD 7950: Processor: Intel Core i5-6600K @ 3.50GHz (4 Cores), Motherboard: MSI Z170A GAMING PRO (MS-7984) v1.0, Chipset: Intel Sky Lake, Memory: 16384MB, Disk: 256GB TS256GSSD370S, Graphics: XFX AMD Radeon HD 7950/8950 OEM / R9 280 3072MB, Audio: Realtek ALC1150, Monitor: SyncMaster, Network: Intel Connection OS: Ubuntu 15.04, Kernel: 4.2.0-996-generic (x86_64) 20150828, Desktop: Xfce 4.12, Display Server: X Server 1.17.1, Display Driver: radeon 7.5.99, OpenGL: 4.1 Mesa 11.1.0-devel (git-c8a61ea) Gallium 0.4, Compiler: GCC 4.9.2 + LLVM 3.8.0, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 2560x1600 Open-Source: R9 285: Processor: Intel Core i5-6600K @ 3.50GHz (4 Cores), Motherboard: MSI Z170A GAMING PRO (MS-7984) v1.0, Chipset: Intel Sky Lake, Memory: 16384MB, Disk: 256GB TS256GSSD370S, Graphics: XFX AMD Radeon R9 285 2048MB, Audio: Realtek ALC1150, Monitor: SyncMaster, Network: Intel Connection OS: Ubuntu 15.04, Kernel: 4.2.0-996-generic (x86_64) 20150828, Desktop: Xfce 4.12, Display Server: X Server 1.17.1, Display Driver: radeon 7.5.99, OpenGL: 4.1 Mesa 11.1.0-devel (git-c8a61ea) Gallium 0.4, Compiler: GCC 4.9.2 + LLVM 3.8.0, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 2560x1600 Open-Source: R9 290: Processor: Intel Core i5-6600K @ 3.50GHz (4 Cores), Motherboard: MSI Z170A GAMING PRO (MS-7984) v1.0, Chipset: Intel Sky Lake, Memory: 16384MB, Disk: 256GB TS256GSSD370S, Graphics: XFX AMD Radeon R9 290 4096MB, Audio: Realtek ALC1150, Monitor: SyncMaster, Network: Intel Connection OS: Ubuntu 15.04, Kernel: 4.2.0-996-generic (x86_64) 20150828, Desktop: Xfce 4.12, Display Server: X Server 1.17.1, Display Driver: radeon 7.5.99, OpenGL: 4.1 Mesa 11.1.0-devel (git-c8a61ea) Gallium 0.4, Compiler: GCC 4.9.2 + LLVM 3.8.0, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 2560x1600 Open-Source: R7 370: Processor: Intel Core i5-6600K @ 3.50GHz (4 Cores), Motherboard: MSI Z170A GAMING PRO (MS-7984) v1.0, Chipset: Intel Sky Lake, Memory: 16384MB, Disk: 256GB TS256GSSD370S, Graphics: MSI AMD Radeon R9 270 4096MB, Audio: Realtek ALC1150, Monitor: SyncMaster, Network: Intel Connection OS: Ubuntu 15.04, Kernel: 4.2.0-996-generic (x86_64) 20150828, Desktop: Xfce 4.12, Display Server: X Server 1.17.1, Display Driver: radeon 7.5.99, OpenGL: 4.1 Mesa 11.1.0-devel (git-c8a61ea) Gallium 0.4, Compiler: GCC 4.9.2 + LLVM 3.8.0, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 2560x1600 Catalyst: HD 7950: Processor: Intel Core i5-6600K @ 3.50GHz (4 Cores), Motherboard: MSI Z170A GAMING PRO (MS-7984) v1.0, Chipset: Intel Sky Lake, Memory: 16384MB, Disk: 256GB TS256GSSD370S, Graphics: XFX AMD Radeon HD 7900 3072MB (900/1375MHz), Audio: Intel Sunrise Point-H HD Audio, Monitor: SyncMaster, Network: Intel Connection OS: Ubuntu 15.04, Kernel: 3.19.0-26-generic (x86_64), Desktop: Xfce 4.12, 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 Catalyst: R9 285: Processor: Intel Core i5-6600K @ 3.50GHz (4 Cores), Motherboard: MSI Z170A GAMING PRO (MS-7984) v1.0, Chipset: Intel Sky Lake, Memory: 16384MB, Disk: 256GB TS256GSSD370S, Graphics: XFX AMD Radeon R9 200 2048MB (918/1375MHz), Audio: Intel Sunrise Point-H HD Audio, Monitor: SyncMaster, Network: Intel Connection OS: Ubuntu 15.04, Kernel: 3.19.0-26-generic (x86_64), Desktop: Xfce 4.12, 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 Catalyst: R9 290: Processor: Intel Core i5-6600K @ 3.50GHz (4 Cores), Motherboard: MSI Z170A GAMING PRO (MS-7984) v1.0, Chipset: Intel Sky Lake, Memory: 16384MB, Disk: 256GB TS256GSSD370S, Graphics: XFX AMD Radeon R9 200 4096MB (947/1250MHz), Audio: Intel Sunrise Point-H HD Audio, Monitor: SyncMaster, Network: Intel Connection OS: Ubuntu 15.04, Kernel: 3.19.0-26-generic (x86_64), Desktop: Xfce 4.12, 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 Catalyst: R7 370: Processor: Intel Core i5-6600K @ 3.50GHz (4 Cores), Motherboard: MSI Z170A GAMING PRO (MS-7984) v1.0, Chipset: Intel Sky Lake, Memory: 16384MB, Disk: 256GB TS256GSSD370S, Graphics: MSI AMD Radeon R7 300 4096MB (1030/1400MHz), Audio: Intel Sunrise Point-H HD Audio, Monitor: SyncMaster, Network: Intel Connection OS: Ubuntu 15.04, Kernel: 3.19.0-26-generic (x86_64), Desktop: Xfce 4.12, 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 Metro 2033 Redux Phoronix Test Suite v6.0.0m1 Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better Open-Source: HD 7950 . 42.79 |================================== Open-Source: R9 285 .. 8.86 |======= Open-Source: R9 290 .. 47.61 |====================================== Open-Source: R7 370 .. 39.40 |================================ Catalyst: HD 7950 .... 50.38 |======================================== Catalyst: R9 285 ..... 46.48 |===================================== Catalyst: R9 290 ..... 61.14 |================================================= Catalyst: R7 370 ..... 43.69 |=================================== Metro: Last Light Redux Phoronix Test Suite v6.0.0m1 Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better Open-Source: HD 7950 . 46.29 |================================= Open-Source: R9 285 .. 7.10 |===== Open-Source: R9 290 .. 53.17 |====================================== Open-Source: R9 290 .. 53.01 |====================================== Open-Source: R7 370 .. 39.68 |============================ Open-Source: R7 370 .. 39.58 |============================ Catalyst: HD 7950 .... 51.66 |===================================== Catalyst: R9 285 ..... 46.07 |================================= Catalyst: R9 290 ..... 68.63 |================================================= Catalyst: R7 370 ..... 40.96 |============================= OpenArena 0.8.8 Resolution: 2560 x 1600 Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better Open-Source: HD 7950 . 169.23 |========================== Open-Source: R9 285 .. 26.70 |==== Open-Source: R9 290 .. 195.10 |============================== Open-Source: R7 370 .. 145.13 |======================= Catalyst: HD 7950 .... 209.37 |================================= Catalyst: R9 285 ..... 201.67 |=============================== Catalyst: R9 290 ..... 307.70 |================================================ Catalyst: R7 370 ..... 164.53 |========================== OpenArena 0.8.8 Resolution: 2560 x 1600 - Total Frame Time Milliseconds < Lower Is Better Open-Source: HD 7950 . MIN: 3.0 AVG: 5.8 MAX: 30.0 Open-Source: R9 285 .. MIN: 2.0 AVG: 37.4 MAX: 97.0 Open-Source: R9 290 .. MIN: 2.0 AVG: 5.1 MAX: 32.0 Open-Source: R7 370 .. MIN: 3.0 AVG: 6.9 MAX: 28.0 Catalyst: HD 7950 .... MIN: 1.0 AVG: 4.8 MAX: 28.0 Catalyst: R9 285 ..... MIN: 1.0 AVG: 4.9 MAX: 26.0 Catalyst: R9 290 ..... MIN: 1.0 AVG: 3.2 MAX: 24.0 Catalyst: R7 370 ..... MIN: 1.0 AVG: 6.1 MAX: 29.0 Tesseract 2014-05-12 Resolution: 2560 x 1600 Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better Open-Source: HD 7950 . 135.95 |========================================= Open-Source: R9 285 .. 19.44 |====== Open-Source: R9 290 .. 158.79 |================================================ Open-Source: R7 370 .. 127.31 |====================================== Catalyst: HD 7950 .... 108.73 |================================= Catalyst: R9 285 ..... 103.38 |=============================== Catalyst: R9 290 ..... 158.77 |================================================ Catalyst: R7 370 ..... 96.16 |============================= Unigine Valley 1.0 Resolution: 1920 x 1080 - Mode: Fullscreen Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better Open-Source: HD 7950 . 62.14 |================================= Open-Source: R9 285 .. 15.73 |======== Open-Source: R9 290 .. 91.72 |================================================= Open-Source: R7 370 .. 59.65 |================================ Catalyst: HD 7950 .... 47.46 |========================= Catalyst: R9 285 ..... 50.25 |=========================== Catalyst: R9 290 ..... 73.28 |======================================= Catalyst: R7 370 ..... 37.23 |==================== Xonotic 0.8 Resolution: 2560 x 1600 - Effects Quality: Ultra Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better Open-Source: HD 7950 . 164.48 |============================================ Open-Source: R9 285 .. 36.46 |========== Open-Source: R9 290 .. 179.14 |================================================ Open-Source: R7 370 .. 156.00 |========================================== Catalyst: HD 7950 .... 162.93 |============================================ Catalyst: R9 285 ..... 152.61 |========================================= Catalyst: R9 290 ..... 174.14 |=============================================== Catalyst: R7 370 ..... 151.20 |========================================= Xonotic 0.8 Resolution: 2560 x 1600 - Effects Quality: Ultimate Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better Open-Source: HD 7950 . 132.76 |========================================== Open-Source: R9 285 .. 31.38 |========== Open-Source: R9 290 .. 152.09 |================================================ Open-Source: R7 370 .. 121.84 |====================================== Catalyst: HD 7950 .... 128.18 |======================================== Catalyst: R9 285 ..... 122.36 |======================================= Catalyst: R9 290 ..... 139.49 |============================================ Catalyst: R7 370 ..... 114.36 |==================================== GpuTest 0.7.0 Test: Plot3D - Resolution: 2560 x 1600 - Mode: Fullscreen Points > Higher Is Better Open-Source: HD 7950 . 36717 |========================================== Open-Source: R9 285 .. 4942 |====== Open-Source: R9 290 .. 41668 |=============================================== Open-Source: R7 370 .. 41926 |=============================================== Catalyst: HD 7950 .... 27904 |================================ Catalyst: R9 285 ..... 23832 |=========================== Catalyst: R9 290 ..... 43279 |================================================= Catalyst: R7 370 ..... 28606 |================================ GpuTest 0.7.0 Test: Furmark - Resolution: 2560 x 1600 - Mode: Fullscreen Points > Higher Is Better Open-Source: HD 7950 . 1621 |============================ Open-Source: R9 285 .. 242 |==== Open-Source: R9 290 .. 2920 |================================================== Open-Source: R7 370 .. 1790 |=============================== Catalyst: HD 7950 .... 1581 |=========================== Catalyst: R9 285 ..... 2088 |==================================== Catalyst: R9 290 ..... 2636 |============================================= Catalyst: R7 370 ..... 1614 |============================ GpuTest 0.7.0 Test: Triangle - Resolution: 2560 x 1600 - Mode: Fullscreen Points > Higher Is Better Open-Source: HD 7950 . 137692 |=========================================== Open-Source: R9 285 .. 10228 |=== Open-Source: R9 290 .. 154797 |================================================ Open-Source: R7 370 .. 146865 |============================================== Catalyst: HD 7950 .... 53242 |================= Catalyst: R9 285 ..... 37639 |============ Catalyst: R9 290 ..... 93290 |============================= Catalyst: R7 370 ..... 56228 |=================