Ubuntu 15.10 Upgraded R600g Intel Core i7-5960X testing with a Gigabyte X99-UD4-CF and Sapphire AMD Radeon HD 6870 1024MB on Ubuntu 15.10 via the Phoronix Test Suite. HD 6870 - Linux 4.2 + Mesa 11.0.2: 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: Sapphire AMD Radeon HD 6870 1024MB, Audio: Realtek ALC1150, Monitor: DELL P2415Q, Network: Intel Connection OS: Ubuntu 15.10, Kernel: 4.2.0-25-generic (x86_64), Desktop: Unity, 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: 1920x1080 HD 6870 - Linux 4.5 + Mesa 11.2-dev: 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: Sapphire AMD Radeon HD 6870 1024MB, Audio: Realtek ALC1150, Monitor: DELL P2415Q, Network: Intel Connection OS: Ubuntu 15.10, Kernel: 4.5.0-rc1amdgpu-pp+ (x86_64) 20160125, Desktop: Unity, Display Server: X Server 1.17.2, Display Driver: radeon 7.6.99, OpenGL: 3.3 Mesa 11.2.0-devel (padoka PPA) Gallium 0.4, Compiler: GCC 5.2.1 20151010, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 1920x1080 Counter-Strike: Global Offensive Resolution: 1920 x 1080 Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better HD 6870 - Linux 4.2 + Mesa 11.0.2 ... 81.61 |================================== HD 6870 - Linux 4.5 + Mesa 11.2-dev . 82.80 |================================== Tesseract 2014-05-12 Resolution: 1920 x 1080 Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better HD 6870 - Linux 4.2 + Mesa 11.0.2 ... 118.17 |============================= HD 6870 - Linux 4.5 + Mesa 11.2-dev . 133.15 |================================= Team Fortress 2 Resolution: 1920 x 1080 Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better HD 6870 - Linux 4.2 + Mesa 11.0.2 ... 85.83 |================================ HD 6870 - Linux 4.5 + Mesa 11.2-dev . 89.93 |================================== Unigine Valley 1.0 Resolution: 1920 x 1080 - Mode: Fullscreen Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better HD 6870 - Linux 4.2 + Mesa 11.0.2 ... 21.96 |================================= HD 6870 - Linux 4.5 + Mesa 11.2-dev . 22.84 |================================== Xonotic 0.8 Resolution: 1920 x 1080 - Effects Quality: Low Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better HD 6870 - Linux 4.2 + Mesa 11.0.2 ... 258.28 |=============================== HD 6870 - Linux 4.5 + Mesa 11.2-dev . 274.76 |================================= Xonotic 0.8 Resolution: 1920 x 1080 - Effects Quality: High Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better HD 6870 - Linux 4.2 + Mesa 11.0.2 ... 183.16 |================================= HD 6870 - Linux 4.5 + Mesa 11.2-dev . 185.26 |================================= Xonotic 0.8 Resolution: 1920 x 1080 - Effects Quality: Ultra Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better HD 6870 - Linux 4.2 + Mesa 11.0.2 ... 131.94 |================================= HD 6870 - Linux 4.5 + Mesa 11.2-dev . 128.92 |================================ Xonotic 0.8 Resolution: 1920 x 1080 - Effects Quality: Ultimate Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better HD 6870 - Linux 4.2 + Mesa 11.0.2 ... 93.63 |================================= HD 6870 - Linux 4.5 + Mesa 11.2-dev . 97.05 |==================================