Ubuntu 15.10 Radeon DRI3 vs. DRI2 DRI2 DRI3 rendering on Radeon open-source Linux graphics driver of Linux 4.3 and Mesa 11.1-devel atop Ubuntu 15.10. Benchmarks by Michael Larabel for a future article on Phoronix.com. DRI2: R9 290: Processor: Intel Core i7-5960X @ 3.50GHz (16 Cores), Motherboard: Gigabyte X99-UD4-CF, Chipset: Intel Xeon E7 v3/Xeon, Memory: 16384MB, Disk: 240GB OCZ VERTEX3, Graphics: XFX AMD Radeon R9 290 4096MB, Audio: Realtek ALC1150, Monitor: DELL P2415Q, Network: Intel Connection OS: Ubuntu 15.10, Kernel: 4.3.0-999-generic (x86_64) 20151018, Desktop: Unity, Display Server: X Server 1.17.2, Display Driver: radeon 7.5.99, OpenGL: 4.1 Mesa 11.1.0-devel (padoka PPA) Gallium 0.4, Compiler: GCC 5.2.1 20151010, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 3840x2160 DRI3: R9 290: Processor: Intel Core i7-5960X @ 3.50GHz (16 Cores), Motherboard: Gigabyte X99-UD4-CF, Chipset: Intel Xeon E7 v3/Xeon, Memory: 16384MB, Disk: 240GB OCZ VERTEX3, Graphics: XFX AMD Radeon R9 290 4096MB, Audio: Realtek ALC1150, Monitor: DELL P2415Q, Network: Intel Connection OS: Ubuntu 15.10, Kernel: 4.3.0-999-generic (x86_64) 20151018, Desktop: Unity, Display Server: X Server 1.17.2, Display Driver: radeon 7.5.99, OpenGL: 4.1 Mesa 11.1.0-devel (padoka PPA) Gallium 0.4, Compiler: GCC 5.2.1 20151010, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 3840x2160 DRI2: HD 6870: Processor: Intel Core i7-5960X @ 3.50GHz (16 Cores), Motherboard: Gigabyte X99-UD4-CF, Chipset: Intel Xeon E7 v3/Xeon, Memory: 16384MB, Disk: 240GB OCZ VERTEX3, Graphics: Sapphire AMD Radeon HD 6870 1024MB, Audio: Realtek ALC1150, Monitor: DELL P2415Q, Network: Intel Connection OS: Ubuntu 15.10, Kernel: 4.3.0-999-generic (x86_64) 20151018, Desktop: Unity, Display Server: X Server 1.17.2, Display Driver: radeon 7.5.99, OpenGL: 3.3 Mesa 11.1.0-devel (padoka PPA) Gallium 0.4, Compiler: GCC 5.2.1 20151010, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 1920x1080 DRI3: HD 6870: Processor: Intel Core i7-5960X @ 3.50GHz (16 Cores), Motherboard: Gigabyte X99-UD4-CF, Chipset: Intel Xeon E7 v3/Xeon, Memory: 16384MB, Disk: 240GB OCZ VERTEX3, Graphics: Sapphire AMD Radeon HD 6870 1024MB, Audio: Realtek ALC1150, Monitor: DELL P2415Q, Network: Intel Connection OS: Ubuntu 15.10, Kernel: 4.3.0-999-generic (x86_64) 20151018, Desktop: Unity, Display Server: X Server 1.17.2, Display Driver: radeon 7.5.99, OpenGL: 3.3 Mesa 11.1.0-devel (padoka PPA) Gallium 0.4, Compiler: GCC 5.2.1 20151010, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 1920x1080 DRI2: R7 370: Processor: Intel Core i7-5960X @ 3.50GHz (16 Cores), Motherboard: Gigabyte X99-UD4-CF, Chipset: Intel Xeon E7 v3/Xeon, Memory: 16384MB, Disk: 240GB OCZ VERTEX3, Graphics: MSI AMD Radeon R7 370 / R9 270/370 OEM 4096MB, Audio: Realtek ALC1150, Monitor: DELL P2415Q, Network: Intel Connection OS: Ubuntu 15.10, Kernel: 4.3.0-999-generic (x86_64) 20151018, Desktop: Unity, Display Server: X Server 1.17.2, Display Driver: radeon 7.5.99, OpenGL: 4.1 Mesa 11.1.0-devel (padoka PPA) Gallium 0.4, Compiler: GCC 5.2.1 20151010, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 3840x2160 DRI3: R7 370: Processor: Intel Core i7-5960X @ 3.50GHz (16 Cores), Motherboard: Gigabyte X99-UD4-CF, Chipset: Intel Xeon E7 v3/Xeon, Memory: 16384MB, Disk: 240GB OCZ VERTEX3, Graphics: MSI AMD Radeon R7 370 / R9 270/370 OEM 4096MB, Audio: Realtek ALC1150, Monitor: DELL P2415Q, Network: Intel Connection OS: Ubuntu 15.10, Kernel: 4.3.0-999-generic (x86_64) 20151018, Desktop: Unity, Display Server: X Server 1.17.2, Display Driver: radeon 7.5.99, OpenGL: 4.1 Mesa 11.1.0-devel (padoka PPA) Gallium 0.4, Compiler: GCC 5.2.1 20151010, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 3840x2160 OpenArena 0.8.5 Resolution: 1920 x 1080 Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better DRI2: R9 290 .. 398.92 |============================================ DRI3: R9 290 .. 481.80 |===================================================== DRI2: HD 6870 . 475.03 |===================================================== DRI3: HD 6870 . 484.03 |====================================================== DRI2: R7 370 .. 386.97 |=========================================== DRI3: R7 370 .. 496.47 |======================================================= OpenArena 0.8.8 Resolution: 1920 x 1080 Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better DRI2: R9 290 .. 201.97 |====================================================== DRI3: R9 290 .. 207.58 |======================================================= DRI2: HD 6870 . 160.90 |=========================================== DRI3: HD 6870 . 159.17 |========================================== DRI2: R7 370 .. 181.20 |================================================ DRI3: R7 370 .. 189.30 |================================================== OpenArena 0.8.8 Resolution: 1920 x 1080 - Total Frame Time Milliseconds < Lower Is Better DRI2: R9 290 .. MIN: 1.0 AVG: 5.2 MAX: 29.0 DRI3: R9 290 .. MIN: 1.0 AVG: 4.9 MAX: 33.0 DRI2: HD 6870 . MIN: 3.0 AVG: 6.2 MAX: 14.0 DRI3: HD 6870 . MIN: 2.0 AVG: 6.1 MAX: 21.0 DRI2: R7 370 .. MIN: 2.0 AVG: 5.4 MAX: 35.0 DRI3: R7 370 .. MIN: 2.0 AVG: 5.2 MAX: 33.0 Tesseract 2014-05-12 Resolution: 1920 x 1080 Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better DRI2: R9 290 .. 150.25 |======================================================= DRI3: R9 290 .. 149.59 |======================================================= DRI2: HD 6870 . 119.45 |============================================ DRI3: HD 6870 . 120.50 |============================================ DRI2: R7 370 .. 126.64 |============================================== DRI3: R7 370 .. 131.46 |================================================ Unigine Valley 1.0 Resolution: 1920 x 1080 - Mode: Fullscreen Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better DRI2: R9 290 .. 57.43 |======================================================= DRI3: R9 290 .. 58.73 |======================================================== DRI2: HD 6870 . 22.83 |====================== DRI3: HD 6870 . 22.99 |====================== DRI2: R7 370 .. 33.77 |================================ DRI3: R7 370 .. 34.12 |================================= Xonotic 0.8 Resolution: 1920 x 1080 - Effects Quality: Low Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better DRI2: R9 290 .. 243.41 |============================================== DRI3: R9 290 .. 262.68 |================================================== DRI2: HD 6870 . 277.72 |===================================================== DRI3: HD 6870 . 290.39 |======================================================= DRI2: R7 370 .. 232.65 |============================================ DRI3: R7 370 .. 249.61 |=============================================== Xonotic 0.8 Resolution: 1920 x 1080 - Effects Quality: High Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better DRI2: R9 290 .. 145.43 |========================================= DRI3: R9 290 .. 176.69 |================================================= DRI2: HD 6870 . 187.29 |==================================================== DRI3: HD 6870 . 196.66 |======================================================= DRI2: R7 370 .. 114.70 |================================ DRI3: R7 370 .. 137.19 |====================================== Xonotic 0.8 Resolution: 1920 x 1080 - Effects Quality: Ultra Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better DRI2: R9 290 .. 124.28 |============================================== DRI3: R9 290 .. 148.10 |====================================================== DRI2: HD 6870 . 134.29 |================================================= DRI3: HD 6870 . 149.73 |======================================================= Xonotic 0.8 Resolution: 1920 x 1080 - Effects Quality: Ultimate Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better DRI2: R9 290 .. 99.36 |================================================ DRI3: R9 290 .. 113.40 |======================================================= DRI2: HD 6870 . 95.61 |============================================== DRI3: HD 6870 . 104.41 |=================================================== GpuTest 0.7.0 Test: Plot3D - Resolution: 1920 x 1080 - Mode: Fullscreen Points > Higher Is Better DRI2: R9 290 .. 30472 |======================================================== DRI3: R9 290 .. 30597 |======================================================== DRI2: HD 6870 . 18834 |================================== DRI3: HD 6870 . 18884 |=================================== GpuTest 0.7.0 Test: Furmark - Resolution: 1920 x 1080 - Mode: Fullscreen Points > Higher Is Better DRI2: R9 290 .. 1726 |====================================================== DRI3: R9 290 .. 1729 |======================================================= DRI2: HD 6870 . 1803 |========================================================= DRI3: HD 6870 . 1808 |========================================================= GpuTest 0.7.0 Test: Triangle - Resolution: 1920 x 1080 - Mode: Fullscreen Points > Higher Is Better DRI2: R9 290 .. 77026 |=================== DRI3: R9 290 .. 75869 |=================== DRI2: HD 6870 . 218732 |======================================================= DRI3: HD 6870 . 218764 |=======================================================