Kubuntu 15.10 KDE Plasma 5 Fullscreen Gaming
OpenGL fullscreen graphics tests on Kubuntu 15.10 with and without compositing. Tests by Michael Larabel for a future article on phoronix.com.


Kubuntu 15.10 Stock: 

	Processor: Intel Xeon E5-2687W v3 @ 3.50GHz (20 Cores), Motherboard: MSI X99S SLI PLUS (MS-7885) v1.0, Chipset: Intel Xeon E7 v3/Xeon, Memory: 16384MB, Disk: 80GB INTEL SSDSCKGW08, Graphics: AMD FirePro V7900 2048MB, Audio: Realtek ALC892, Monitor: ASUS PB278, Network: Intel Connection

	OS: Ubuntu 15.10, Kernel: 4.2.0-16-generic (x86_64), Desktop: KDE Frameworks 5, Display Server: X Server 1.17.2, Display Driver: radeon 7.5.99, OpenGL: 3.3 Mesa 11.0.2 Gallium 0.4, Compiler: GCC 5.2.1 20151010, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 2560x1440

Disable Fullscreen Compositing: 

	Processor: Intel Xeon E5-2687W v3 @ 3.50GHz (20 Cores), Motherboard: MSI X99S SLI PLUS (MS-7885) v1.0, Chipset: Intel Xeon E7 v3/Xeon, Memory: 16384MB, Disk: 80GB INTEL SSDSCKGW08, Graphics: AMD FirePro V7900 2048MB, Audio: Realtek ALC892, Monitor: ASUS PB278, Network: Intel Connection

	OS: Ubuntu 15.10, Kernel: 4.2.0-16-generic (x86_64), Desktop: KDE Frameworks 5, Display Server: X Server 1.17.2, Display Driver: radeon 7.5.99, OpenGL: 3.3 Mesa 11.0.2 Gallium 0.4, Compiler: GCC 5.2.1 20151010, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 2560x1440


OpenArena 0.8.5
Resolution: 1920 x 1080
Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better
Kubuntu 15.10 Stock ............ 247.63 |============================
Disable Fullscreen Compositing . 331.23 |======================================


OpenArena 0.8.8
Resolution: 1920 x 1080
Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better
Kubuntu 15.10 Stock ............ 97.40  |====================================
Disable Fullscreen Compositing . 102.07 |======================================


OpenArena 0.8.8
Resolution: 1920 x 1080 - Total Frame Time
Milliseconds < Lower Is Better
Kubuntu 15.10 Stock ............ MIN: 3.0  AVG: 10.1  MAX: 24.0 
Disable Fullscreen Compositing . MIN: 5.0  AVG: 9.6   MAX: 16.0 


Tesseract 2014-05-12
Resolution: 1920 x 1080
Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better
Kubuntu 15.10 Stock ............ 90.73  |================================
Disable Fullscreen Compositing . 106.09 |======================================


Warsow 1.51
Resolution: 1920 x 1080
Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better
Kubuntu 15.10 Stock ............ 108.60 |=====================================
Disable Fullscreen Compositing . 112.73 |======================================


Xonotic 0.8
Resolution: 1920 x 1080 - Effects Quality: Low
Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better
Kubuntu 15.10 Stock ............ 220.89 |===============================
Disable Fullscreen Compositing . 268.33 |======================================


Xonotic 0.8
Resolution: 1920 x 1080 - Effects Quality: Ultra
Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better
Kubuntu 15.10 Stock ............ 90.31 |====================================
Disable Fullscreen Compositing . 98.66 |=======================================