Radeon R600g Performance On Ubuntu Linux Releases. Benchmarks by Michael Larabel for a future article on Phoronix.com. Ubuntu 13.04 - Linux 3.8 + Mesa 9.1: Processor: Intel Core i7-5960X @ 3.00GHz (16 Cores), Motherboard: Gigabyte X99-UD4-CF, Chipset: Intel Haswell-E DMI2, Memory: 16384MB, Disk: 240GB OCZ VERTEX3, Graphics: Sapphire AMD Radeon HD 6870 1024MB, Audio: Realtek ALC1150, Monitor: SyncMaster, Network: Intel Device 15a1 OS: Ubuntu 13.04, Kernel: 3.8.0-19-generic (x86_64), Desktop: Xfce 4.10, Display Server: X Server 1.13.3, Display Driver: radeon 7.1.0, OpenGL: 3.0 Mesa 9.1.7 Gallium 0.4, Compiler: GCC 4.7.3, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 2560x1600 Ubuntu 13.10 - Linux 3.11 + Mesa 9.2: Processor: Intel Core i7-5960X @ 3.00GHz (16 Cores), Motherboard: Gigabyte X99-UD4-CF, Chipset: Intel Haswell-E DMI2, Memory: 16384MB, Disk: 240GB OCZ VERTEX3, Graphics: Sapphire AMD Radeon HD 6870 1024MB, Audio: Realtek ALC1150, Monitor: SyncMaster, Network: Intel Connection OS: Ubuntu 13.10, Kernel: 3.11.0-12-generic (x86_64), Desktop: Xfce 4.10, Display Server: X Server 1.14.3, Display Driver: radeon 7.2.0, OpenGL: 3.1 Mesa 9.2.1 Gallium 0.4, Compiler: GCC 4.8.1, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 2560x1600 Ubuntu 14.04 - Linux 3.13 + Mesa 10.1: Processor: Intel Core i7-5960X @ 3.00GHz (16 Cores), Motherboard: Gigabyte X99-UD4-CF, Chipset: Intel Haswell-E DMI2, Memory: 16384MB, Disk: 240GB OCZ VERTEX3, Graphics: Sapphire AMD Radeon HD 6870 1024MB, Audio: Realtek ALC1150, Monitor: SyncMaster, Network: Intel Connection OS: Ubuntu 14.04, Kernel: 3.13.0-24-generic (x86_64), Desktop: Xfce 4.10, Display Server: X Server 1.15.1, Display Driver: radeon 7.3.0, OpenGL: 3.3 Mesa 10.1.3 Gallium 0.4, Compiler: GCC 4.8.4, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 2560x1600 Ubuntu 14.10 - Linux 3.16 + Mesa 10.3: Processor: Intel Core i7-5960X @ 3.50GHz (16 Cores), Motherboard: Gigabyte X99-UD4-CF, Chipset: Intel Xeon E5 v3/Core, Memory: 16384MB, Disk: 240GB OCZ VERTEX3, Graphics: Sapphire AMD Radeon HD 6870 1024MB, Audio: Intel C610/X99, Monitor: SyncMaster, Network: Intel Connection OS: Ubuntu 14.10, Kernel: 3.16.0-23-generic (x86_64), Desktop: Xfce 4.10, Display Server: X Server 1.16.0, Display Driver: radeon 7.4.0, OpenGL: 3.3 Mesa 10.3.2 Gallium 0.4, Compiler: GCC 4.9.1, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 2560x1600 Ubuntu 15.04 - Linux 3.19 + Mesa 10.5: Processor: Intel Core i7-5960X @ 3.50GHz (16 Cores), Motherboard: Gigabyte X99-UD4-CF, Chipset: Intel Xeon E5 v3/Core, Memory: 16384MB, Disk: 240GB OCZ VERTEX3, Graphics: Sapphire AMD Radeon HD 6870 1024MB, Audio: Intel C610/X99, Monitor: SyncMaster, Network: Intel Connection OS: Ubuntu 15.04, Kernel: 3.19.0-15-generic (x86_64), Desktop: Xfce 4.12, Display Server: X Server 1.17.1, Display Driver: radeon 7.5.0, OpenGL: 3.3 Mesa 10.5.9 Gallium 0.4, Compiler: GCC 4.9.2, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 2560x1600 Ubuntu 15.04 - Linux 4.3 + Mesa 11.1-dev: Processor: Intel Core i7-5960X @ 3.50GHz (16 Cores), Motherboard: Gigabyte X99-UD4-CF, Chipset: Intel Xeon E5 v3/Core, Memory: 16384MB, Disk: 240GB OCZ VERTEX3, Graphics: Sapphire AMD Radeon HD 6870 1024MB, Audio: Realtek ALC1150, Monitor: SyncMaster, Network: Intel Connection OS: Ubuntu 15.04, Kernel: 4.2.0-999-generic (x86_64) 20150907, Desktop: Xfce 4.12, Display Server: X Server 1.17.1, Display Driver: radeon 7.5.99, OpenGL: 3.3 Mesa 11.1.0-devel (git-c12ffb3) Gallium 0.4, Compiler: GCC 4.9.2 + LLVM 3.8.0, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 2560x1600 OpenArena 0.8.5 Resolution: 2560 x 1600 Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better Ubuntu 13.04 - Linux 3.8 + Mesa 9.1 ...... 231.03 |================= Ubuntu 13.10 - Linux 3.11 + Mesa 9.2 ..... 327.97 |======================== Ubuntu 14.04 - Linux 3.13 + Mesa 10.1 .... 332.97 |======================== Ubuntu 14.10 - Linux 3.16 + Mesa 10.3 .... 271.25 |=================== Ubuntu 15.04 - Linux 3.19 + Mesa 10.5 .... 389.50 |============================ Ubuntu 15.04 - Linux 4.3 + Mesa 11.1-dev . 319.62 |======================= OpenArena 0.8.8 Resolution: 2560 x 1600 Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better Ubuntu 13.04 - Linux 3.8 + Mesa 9.1 ...... 25.50 |======= Ubuntu 13.10 - Linux 3.11 + Mesa 9.2 ..... 105.17 |============================ Ubuntu 14.04 - Linux 3.13 + Mesa 10.1 .... 98.30 |========================== Ubuntu 14.10 - Linux 3.16 + Mesa 10.3 .... 91.50 |======================== Ubuntu 15.04 - Linux 3.19 + Mesa 10.5 .... 98.57 |========================== Ubuntu 15.04 - Linux 4.3 + Mesa 11.1-dev . 95.93 |========================== Tesseract 2014-05-12 Resolution: 2560 x 1600 Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better Ubuntu 13.10 - Linux 3.11 + Mesa 9.2 ..... 56.66 |=================== Ubuntu 14.04 - Linux 3.13 + Mesa 10.1 .... 84.73 |============================= Ubuntu 14.10 - Linux 3.16 + Mesa 10.3 .... 78.05 |=========================== Ubuntu 15.04 - Linux 3.19 + Mesa 10.5 .... 79.72 |=========================== Ubuntu 15.04 - Linux 4.3 + Mesa 11.1-dev . 76.40 |========================== Unigine Tropics 1.3 Resolution: 1920 x 1080 - Mode: Fullscreen Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better Ubuntu 14.10 - Linux 3.16 + Mesa 10.3 .... 71.11 |============================= Ubuntu 15.04 - Linux 3.19 + Mesa 10.5 .... 66.64 |=========================== Ubuntu 15.04 - Linux 4.3 + Mesa 11.1-dev . 64.99 |=========================== Warsow 1.51 Resolution: 2560 x 1600 Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better Ubuntu 13.04 - Linux 3.8 + Mesa 9.1 ...... 48.00 |================ Ubuntu 13.10 - Linux 3.11 + Mesa 9.2 ..... 73.70 |======================== Ubuntu 14.04 - Linux 3.13 + Mesa 10.1 .... 88.63 |============================= Ubuntu 14.10 - Linux 3.16 + Mesa 10.3 .... 80.90 |========================== Ubuntu 15.04 - Linux 3.19 + Mesa 10.5 .... 82.27 |=========================== Ubuntu 15.04 - Linux 4.3 + Mesa 11.1-dev . 83.90 |=========================== Xonotic 0.8 Resolution: 2560 x 1600 - Effects Quality: High Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better Ubuntu 13.04 - Linux 3.8 + Mesa 9.1 ...... 98.59 |===================== Ubuntu 13.10 - Linux 3.11 + Mesa 9.2 ..... 123.01 |========================== Ubuntu 14.04 - Linux 3.13 + Mesa 10.1 .... 124.88 |========================== Ubuntu 14.10 - Linux 3.16 + Mesa 10.3 .... 133.67 |============================ Ubuntu 15.04 - Linux 3.19 + Mesa 10.5 .... 134.44 |============================ Ubuntu 15.04 - Linux 4.3 + Mesa 11.1-dev . 119.17 |========================= Xonotic 0.8 Resolution: 2560 x 1600 - Effects Quality: Ultra Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better Ubuntu 13.04 - Linux 3.8 + Mesa 9.1 ...... 53.53 |================= Ubuntu 13.10 - Linux 3.11 + Mesa 9.2 ..... 77.07 |========================= Ubuntu 14.04 - Linux 3.13 + Mesa 10.1 .... 87.22 |============================ Ubuntu 14.10 - Linux 3.16 + Mesa 10.3 .... 84.53 |=========================== Ubuntu 15.04 - Linux 3.19 + Mesa 10.5 .... 90.68 |============================= Ubuntu 15.04 - Linux 4.3 + Mesa 11.1-dev . 90.58 |============================= Xonotic 0.8 Resolution: 2560 x 1600 - Effects Quality: Ultimate Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better Ubuntu 13.04 - Linux 3.8 + Mesa 9.1 ...... 37.25 |================== Ubuntu 13.10 - Linux 3.11 + Mesa 9.2 ..... 55.67 |========================== Ubuntu 14.04 - Linux 3.13 + Mesa 10.1 .... 61.46 |============================= Ubuntu 14.10 - Linux 3.16 + Mesa 10.3 .... 58.40 |============================ Ubuntu 15.04 - Linux 3.19 + Mesa 10.5 .... 61.31 |============================= Ubuntu 15.04 - Linux 4.3 + Mesa 11.1-dev . 60.58 |============================= GpuTest 0.7.0 Test: Furmark - Resolution: 2560 x 1600 - Mode: Fullscreen Points > Higher Is Better Ubuntu 13.04 - Linux 3.8 + Mesa 9.1 ...... 655 |================== Ubuntu 13.10 - Linux 3.11 + Mesa 9.2 ..... 718 |=================== Ubuntu 14.04 - Linux 3.13 + Mesa 10.1 .... 961 |========================== Ubuntu 14.10 - Linux 3.16 + Mesa 10.3 .... 845 |======================= Ubuntu 15.04 - Linux 3.19 + Mesa 10.5 .... 1106 |============================== Ubuntu 15.04 - Linux 4.3 + Mesa 11.1-dev . 1089 |============================== GpuTest 0.7.0 Test: Triangle - Resolution: 2560 x 1600 - Mode: Fullscreen Points > Higher Is Better Ubuntu 13.04 - Linux 3.8 + Mesa 9.1 ...... 43389 |======================= Ubuntu 13.10 - Linux 3.11 + Mesa 9.2 ..... 55313 |============================= Ubuntu 14.04 - Linux 3.13 + Mesa 10.1 .... 44016 |======================= Ubuntu 14.10 - Linux 3.16 + Mesa 10.3 .... 41528 |====================== Ubuntu 15.04 - Linux 3.19 + Mesa 10.5 .... 52427 |=========================== Ubuntu 15.04 - Linux 4.3 + Mesa 11.1-dev . 52253 |===========================