Radeon Linux 4.4 vs. 4.5 DRM Radeon R9 290 and R7 370 Radeon graphics card tests on open adriver with Linux 4.4 and 4.5 DRM driver tests. Tests by Michael Larabel for a future article. Linux 4.4: 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: 120GB Samsung SSD 850, Graphics: XFX AMD Radeon R9 290 4096MB, Audio: Realtek ALC1150, Monitor: DELL P2415Q, Network: Intel Connection OS: Ubuntu 15.10, Kernel: 4.4.0-rc3-amdgpu-pp-phx-xmas (x86_64) 20151218, Desktop: Unity, Display Server: X Server 1.17.2, Display Driver: radeon 7.6.99, OpenGL: 4.1 Mesa 11.2.0-devel (padoka PPA) Gallium 0.4, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 1920x1080 Linux 4.4: 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: 120GB Samsung SSD 850, 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: 4.4.0-rc3-amdgpu-pp-phx-xmas (x86_64) 20151218, Desktop: Unity, Display Server: X Server 1.17.2, Display Driver: radeon 7.6.99, OpenGL: 4.1 Mesa 11.2.0-devel (padoka PPA) Gallium 0.4, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 1920x1080 Linux 4.5 DRM: 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: 120GB Samsung SSD 850, Graphics: XFX AMD Radeon R9 290 4096MB, Audio: Realtek ALC1150, Monitor: DELL P2415Q, Network: Intel Connection OS: Ubuntu 15.10, Kernel: 4.4.0-rc3-4.5-next-phx-xmas (x86_64) 20151222, Desktop: Unity, Display Server: X Server 1.17.2, Display Driver: radeon 7.6.99, OpenGL: 4.1 Mesa 11.2.0-devel (padoka PPA) Gallium 0.4, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 1920x1080 Linux 4.5 DRM: 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: 120GB Samsung SSD 850, 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: 4.4.0-rc3-4.5-next-phx-xmas (x86_64) 20151222, Desktop: Unity, Display Server: X Server 1.17.2, Display Driver: radeon 7.6.99, OpenGL: 4.1 Mesa 11.2.0-devel (padoka PPA) Gallium 0.4, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 1920x1080 Unigine Valley 1.0 Resolution: 1920 x 1080 - Mode: Fullscreen Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better Linux 4.4: R9 290 ..... 59.23 |================================================ Linux 4.4: R7 370 ..... 33.33 |=========================== Linux 4.5 DRM: R9 290 . 59.36 |================================================ Linux 4.5 DRM: R7 370 . 33.45 |=========================== BioShock Infinite Resolution: 1920 x 1080 - Effects Quality: Very High Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better Linux 4.4: R9 290 ..... 26.95 |============================================ Linux 4.4: R7 370 ..... 27.16 |============================================= Linux 4.5 DRM: R9 290 . 28.93 |================================================ Linux 4.5 DRM: R7 370 . 29.23 |================================================ DiRT Showdown Resolution: 1920 x 1080 - Graphics Preset: Ultra - Multi-Sampling: 2x MSAA Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better Linux 4.4: R9 290 ..... 56.51 |================================================ Linux 4.4: R7 370 ..... 54.12 |============================================== Linux 4.5 DRM: R9 290 . 56.81 |================================================ Linux 4.5 DRM: R7 370 . 55.17 |=============================================== Metro 2033 Redux Phoronix Test Suite v6.2.0m1 Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better Linux 4.4: R9 290 ..... 32.24 |================================================ Linux 4.4: R7 370 ..... 31.59 |=============================================== Linux 4.5 DRM: R9 290 . 32.55 |================================================ Linux 4.5 DRM: R7 370 . 31.17 |============================================== Metro: Last Light Redux Phoronix Test Suite v6.2.0m1 Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better Linux 4.4: R9 290 ..... 41.16 |================================================ Linux 4.4: R7 370 ..... 37.72 |============================================ Linux 4.5 DRM: R9 290 . 41.11 |================================================ Linux 4.5 DRM: R7 370 . 37.44 |============================================ OpenArena 0.8.8 Resolution: 1920 x 1080 Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better Linux 4.4: R9 290 ..... 214.63 |=============================================== Linux 4.4: R7 370 ..... 191.27 |========================================== Linux 4.5 DRM: R9 290 . 215.20 |=============================================== Linux 4.5 DRM: R7 370 . 186.97 |========================================= OpenArena 0.8.8 Resolution: 1920 x 1080 - Total Frame Time Milliseconds < Lower Is Better Linux 4.4: R9 290 ..... MIN: 1.0 AVG: 4.7 MAX: 30.0 Linux 4.4: R7 370 ..... MIN: 2.0 AVG: 5.2 MAX: 29.0 Linux 4.5 DRM: R9 290 . MIN: 1.0 AVG: 4.7 MAX: 30.0 Linux 4.5 DRM: R7 370 . MIN: 2.0 AVG: 5.2 MAX: 30.0 Tesseract 2014-05-12 Resolution: 1920 x 1080 Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better Linux 4.4: R9 290 ..... 176.22 |============================================== Linux 4.4: R7 370 ..... 146.17 |====================================== Linux 4.5 DRM: R9 290 . 178.69 |=============================================== Linux 4.5 DRM: R7 370 . 145.31 |====================================== Team Fortress 2 Resolution: 1920 x 1080 Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better Linux 4.4: R9 290 ..... 69.78 |============================================ Linux 4.4: R7 370 ..... 74.06 |============================================== Linux 4.5 DRM: R9 290 . 71.02 |============================================ Linux 4.5 DRM: R7 370 . 76.67 |================================================ Xonotic 0.8 Resolution: 1920 x 1080 - Effects Quality: Ultimate Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better Linux 4.4: R9 290 ..... 152.06 |============================================ Linux 4.4: R7 370 ..... 143.86 |========================================== Linux 4.5 DRM: R9 290 . 162.35 |=============================================== Linux 4.5 DRM: R7 370 . 148.25 |===========================================