Ubuntu 13.10 to 15.04 AMD RadeonSI RadeonSI Gallium3D. Benchmarks by Michael Larabel for a future article on Phoronix.com. onix Test Suite. 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: Gigabyte AMD Radeon R9 270X 2048MB, 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: 2.1 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: Gigabyte AMD Radeon R9 270X 2048MB, 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: 3.1 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: Gigabyte AMD Radeon R9 270X 2048MB, 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: 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: 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 OpenArena 0.8.5 Resolution: 2560 x 1600 Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better Ubuntu 14.04 - Linux 3.13 + Mesa 10.1.3 . 326.13 |========================== Ubuntu 13.10 - Linux 3.11 + Mesa 9.2 .... 115.70 |========= Ubuntu 14.04 - Linux 3.13 + Mesa 10.1 ... 334.47 |========================== Ubuntu 14.10 - Linux 3.16 + Mesa 10.3 ... 339.03 |=========================== Ubuntu 15.04 - Linux 3.19 + Mesa 10.5 ... 368.80 |============================= OpenArena 0.8.8 Resolution: 2560 x 1600 Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better Ubuntu 13.10 - Linux 3.11 + Mesa 9.2 .. 27.80 |======= Ubuntu 14.04 - Linux 3.13 + Mesa 10.1 . 101.53 |========================= Ubuntu 13.10 - Linux 3.11 + Mesa 9.2 .. 27.80 |======= Ubuntu 14.04 - Linux 3.13 + Mesa 10.1 . 101.53 |========================= Ubuntu 14.10 - Linux 3.16 + Mesa 10.3 . 110.20 |============================ Ubuntu 15.04 - Linux 3.19 + Mesa 10.5 . 123.50 |=============================== Tesseract 2014-05-12 Resolution: 2560 x 1600 Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better Ubuntu 14.10 - Linux 3.16 + Mesa 10.3 . 77.84 |========================== Ubuntu 15.04 - Linux 3.19 + Mesa 10.5 . 97.51 |================================ Unigine Tropics 1.3 Resolution: 1920 x 1080 - Mode: Fullscreen Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better Ubuntu 14.04 - Linux 3.13 + Mesa 10.1 . 69.57 |===================== Ubuntu 14.10 - Linux 3.16 + Mesa 10.3 . 86.63 |=========================== Ubuntu 15.04 - Linux 3.19 + Mesa 10.5 . 100.97 |=============================== Unigine Valley 1.0 Resolution: 1920 x 1080 - Mode: Fullscreen Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better Ubuntu 14.10 - Linux 3.16 + Mesa 10.3 . 36.21 |========================== Ubuntu 15.04 - Linux 3.19 + Mesa 10.5 . 44.04 |================================ Warsow 1.51 Resolution: 2560 x 1600 Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better Ubuntu 13.10 - Linux 3.11 + Mesa 9.2 .. 60.03 |============== Ubuntu 14.04 - Linux 3.13 + Mesa 10.1 . 129.27 |=============================== Ubuntu 14.10 - Linux 3.16 + Mesa 10.3 . 75.17 |================== Ubuntu 15.04 - Linux 3.19 + Mesa 10.5 . 118.77 |============================ Xonotic 0.8 Resolution: 2560 x 1600 - Effects Quality: High Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better Ubuntu 13.10 - Linux 3.11 + Mesa 9.2 .. 75.91 |=================== Ubuntu 14.04 - Linux 3.13 + Mesa 10.1 . 122.34 |============================== Ubuntu 14.10 - Linux 3.16 + Mesa 10.3 . 94.49 |======================= Ubuntu 15.04 - Linux 3.19 + Mesa 10.5 . 126.01 |=============================== Xonotic 0.8 Resolution: 2560 x 1600 - Effects Quality: Ultra Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better Ubuntu 13.10 - Linux 3.11 + Mesa 9.2 .. 88.88 |========================= Ubuntu 14.10 - Linux 3.16 + Mesa 10.3 . 88.97 |========================= Ubuntu 15.04 - Linux 3.19 + Mesa 10.5 . 110.31 |=============================== Xonotic 0.8 Resolution: 2560 x 1600 - Effects Quality: Ultimate Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better Ubuntu 13.10 - Linux 3.11 + Mesa 9.2 .. 81.21 |============================= Ubuntu 14.10 - Linux 3.16 + Mesa 10.3 . 75.21 |=========================== Ubuntu 15.04 - Linux 3.19 + Mesa 10.5 . 90.38 |================================ GpuTest 0.7.0 Test: Plot3D - Resolution: 2560 x 1600 - Mode: Fullscreen Points > Higher Is Better Ubuntu 13.10 - Linux 3.11 + Mesa 9.2 .. 14382 |============ Ubuntu 14.04 - Linux 3.13 + Mesa 10.1 . 25447 |==================== Ubuntu 14.10 - Linux 3.16 + Mesa 10.3 . 34275 |=========================== Ubuntu 15.04 - Linux 3.19 + Mesa 10.5 . 39978 |================================ GpuTest 0.7.0 Test: Furmark - Resolution: 2560 x 1600 - Mode: Fullscreen Points > Higher Is Better Ubuntu 13.10 - Linux 3.11 + Mesa 9.2 .. 415 |======= Ubuntu 14.04 - Linux 3.13 + Mesa 10.1 . 1445 |========================= Ubuntu 14.10 - Linux 3.16 + Mesa 10.3 . 1414 |========================= Ubuntu 15.04 - Linux 3.19 + Mesa 10.5 . 1890 |================================= GpuTest 0.7.0 Test: Triangle - Resolution: 2560 x 1600 - Mode: Fullscreen Points > Higher Is Better Ubuntu 13.10 - Linux 3.11 + Mesa 9.2 .. 25829 |====== Ubuntu 14.04 - Linux 3.13 + Mesa 10.1 . 44863 |=========== Ubuntu 14.10 - Linux 3.16 + Mesa 10.3 . 76863 |================== Ubuntu 15.04 - Linux 3.19 + Mesa 10.5 . 132237 |=============================== GpuTest 0.7.0 Test: Pixmark Piano - Resolution: 2560 x 1600 - Mode: Fullscreen Points > Higher Is Better Ubuntu 14.04 - Linux 3.13 + Mesa 10.1 . 113 |==================== Ubuntu 14.10 - Linux 3.16 + Mesa 10.3 . 96 |================= Ubuntu 15.04 - Linux 3.19 + Mesa 10.5 . 191 |==================================