Fedora 18 Through Fedora 23 Radeon Linux Graphics Fedora Linux graphics testing by Michael Larabel for a future article on Phoronix with Radeon HD 5830 Cypress on Fedora 18 through Fedora 23. Fedora 18: Processor: 2 x AMD Opteron 2384 @ 2.70GHz (8 Cores), Motherboard: TYAN S2932/S2932-E, Chipset: NVIDIA MCP55, Memory: 16384MB, Disk: 120GB INTEL SSDSC2BW12, Graphics: Sapphire AMD Radeon HD 5800 1024MB (800/1000MHz), Audio: AMD ATI Cypress HDMI Audio, Monitor: SyncMaster OS: Fedora 18, Kernel: 3.6.10-4.fc18.x86_64 (x86_64), Desktop: GNOME Shell 3.6.2, Display Server: X Server 1.13.0, Display Driver: radeon 6.99.99, OpenGL: 3.0 Mesa 9.2.0-devel Gallium 0.4, Compiler: GCC 4.7.2 20121109, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 2560x1600 Fedora 19: Processor: 2 x AMD Opteron 2384 @ 2.70GHz (8 Cores), Motherboard: TYAN S2932/S2932-E, Chipset: NVIDIA MCP55, Memory: 16384MB, Disk: 120GB INTEL SSDSC2BW12, Graphics: Sapphire AMD Radeon HD 5830 1024MB, Audio: AMD ATI Cypress HDMI Audio, Monitor: SyncMaster OS: Fedora 19, Kernel: 3.9.5-301.fc19.x86_64 (x86_64), Desktop: GNOME Shell 3.8.3, Display Server: X Server 1.14.1, Display Driver: radeon 7.1.99, OpenGL: 3.1 Mesa 9.2.0-devel Gallium 0.4, Compiler: GCC 4.8.3 20140911, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 2560x1600 Fedora 20: Processor: 2 x AMD Opteron 2384 @ 2.70GHz (8 Cores), Motherboard: TYAN S2932/S2932-E, Chipset: NVIDIA MCP55, Memory: 16384MB, Disk: 120GB INTEL SSDSC2BW12, Graphics: Sapphire AMD Radeon HD 5830 1024MB, Audio: AMD Cypress HDMI Audio, Monitor: SyncMaster OS: Fedora 20, Kernel: 3.11.10-301.fc20.x86_64 (x86_64), Desktop: GNOME Shell 3.10.2.1, Display Server: X Server 1.14.4, Display Driver: radeon 7.2.99, OpenGL: 3.1 Mesa 9.2.3 Gallium 0.4, Compiler: GCC 4.8.3 20140911, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 2560x1600 Fedora 21: Processor: 2 x AMD Opteron 2384 @ 2.70GHz (8 Cores), Motherboard: TYAN S2932/S2932-E, Chipset: NVIDIA MCP55, Memory: 16384MB, Disk: 120GB INTEL SSDSC2BW12, Graphics: Sapphire AMD Radeon HD 5830 1024MB, Audio: AMD Cypress HDMI Audio, Monitor: SyncMaster OS: Fedora 21, Kernel: 3.17.4-301.fc21.x86_64 (x86_64), Desktop: GNOME Shell 3.14.2, Display Server: X Server 1.16.1, Display Driver: radeon 7.5.0, OpenGL: 3.3 Mesa 10.3.3 Gallium 0.4, Compiler: GCC 4.9.2 20150212, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 2560x1600 Fedora 22: Processor: 2 x AMD Opteron 2384 @ 2.70GHz (8 Cores), Motherboard: TYAN S2932/S2932-E, Chipset: NVIDIA MCP55, Memory: 16384MB, Disk: 120GB INTEL SSDSC2BW12, Graphics: Sapphire AMD Radeon HD 5830 1024MB, Audio: AMD Cypress HDMI Audio, Monitor: SyncMaster OS: Fedora 22, Kernel: 4.0.4-301.fc22.x86_64 (x86_64), Desktop: GNOME Shell 3.16.2, Display Driver: radeon 7.5.0, OpenGL: 3.3 Mesa 10.5.4 Gallium 0.4, Compiler: GCC 5.3.1 20151207, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 2560x1600 Fedora 23: Processor: 2 x AMD Opteron 2384 @ 2.70GHz (8 Cores), Motherboard: TYAN S2932/S2932-E, Chipset: NVIDIA MCP55, Memory: 16384MB, Disk: 120GB INTEL SSDSC2BW12, Graphics: Sapphire AMD Radeon HD 5830 1024MB, Audio: AMD Cypress HDMI Audio, Monitor: SyncMaster OS: Fedora 23, Kernel: 4.2.3-300.fc23.x86_64 (x86_64), Desktop: GNOME Shell 3.18.1, Display Driver: radeon 7.5.99, OpenGL: 3.3 Mesa 11.0.3 (git-b4bfea0) Gallium 0.4, Compiler: GCC 5.3.1 20151207, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 2560x1600 Fedora 23 + Updates: Processor: 2 x AMD Opteron 2384 @ 2.70GHz (8 Cores), Motherboard: TYAN S2932/S2932-E, Chipset: NVIDIA MCP55, Memory: 16384MB, Disk: 120GB INTEL SSDSC2BW12, Graphics: Sapphire AMD Radeon HD 5830 1024MB, Audio: AMD Cypress HDMI Audio, Monitor: SyncMaster OS: Fedora 23, Kernel: 4.3.4-300.fc23.x86_64 (x86_64), Desktop: GNOME Shell 3.18.3, Display Driver: radeon 7.5.99, OpenGL: 3.3 Mesa 11.1.0 (git-525f3c2) Gallium 0.4, Compiler: GCC 5.3.1 20151207, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 2560x1600 OpenArena 0.8.5 Resolution: 1920 x 1080 Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better Fedora 18 ........... 121.97 |============================= Fedora 19 ........... 143.64 |================================== Fedora 20 ........... 206.40 |================================================= Fedora 21 ........... 200.80 |================================================ Fedora 22 ........... 189.33 |============================================= Fedora 23 ........... 202.80 |================================================ Fedora 23 + Updates . 190.87 |============================================= OpenArena 0.8.8 Resolution: 1920 x 1080 Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better Fedora 18 ........... 59.73 |================================ Fedora 19 ........... 67.33 |==================================== Fedora 20 ........... 87.03 |=============================================== Fedora 21 ........... 92.00 |================================================== Fedora 22 ........... 89.33 |================================================ Fedora 23 ........... 92.80 |================================================== Fedora 23 + Updates . 86.60 |=============================================== OpenArena 0.8.8 Resolution: 1920 x 1080 - Total Frame Time Milliseconds < Lower Is Better Fedora 18 ........... MIN: 8.0 AVG: 16.1 MAX: 51.0 Fedora 19 ........... MIN: 3.0 AVG: 14.3 MAX: 37.0 Fedora 20 ........... MIN: 5.0 AVG: 11.3 MAX: 42.0 Fedora 21 ........... MIN: 5.0 AVG: 10.6 MAX: 94.0 Fedora 22 ........... MIN: 5.0 AVG: 10.7 MAX: 73.0 Fedora 23 ........... MIN: 4.0 AVG: 10.6 MAX: 45.0 Fedora 23 + Updates . MIN: 5.0 AVG: 11.2 MAX: 36.0 Tesseract 2014-05-12 Resolution: 1920 x 1080 Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better Fedora 19 ........... 47.07 |============================= Fedora 20 ........... 53.49 |================================= Fedora 21 ........... 80.61 |================================================== Fedora 22 ........... 78.72 |================================================= Fedora 23 ........... 80.94 |================================================== Fedora 23 + Updates . 80.20 |================================================== Xonotic 0.8 Resolution: 2560 x 1600 - Effects Quality: Low Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better Fedora 19 ........... 148.22 |=============================================== Fedora 20 ........... 156.01 |================================================= Fedora 21 ........... 148.77 |=============================================== Fedora 22 ........... 139.72 |============================================ Fedora 23 ........... 138.79 |============================================ Fedora 23 + Updates . 140.52 |============================================ GpuTest 0.7.0 Test: Plot3D - Resolution: 1920 x 1080 - Mode: Fullscreen Points > Higher Is Better Fedora 18 ........... 7419 |====================================== Fedora 19 ........... 7869 |======================================== Fedora 20 ........... 9330 |================================================ Fedora 21 ........... 9661 |================================================= Fedora 22 ........... 9957 |=================================================== Fedora 23 ........... 9957 |=================================================== Fedora 23 + Updates . 9956 |=================================================== GpuTest 0.7.0 Test: Furmark - Resolution: 1920 x 1080 - Mode: Fullscreen Points > Higher Is Better Fedora 18 ........... 470 |========================= Fedora 19 ........... 568 |============================== Fedora 20 ........... 592 |=============================== Fedora 21 ........... 693 |==================================== Fedora 22 ........... 990 |==================================================== Fedora 23 ........... 991 |==================================================== Fedora 23 + Updates . 885 |============================================== GpuTest 0.7.0 Test: Triangle - Resolution: 1920 x 1080 - Mode: Fullscreen Points > Higher Is Better Fedora 19 ........... 28674 |===================== Fedora 20 ........... 60515 |============================================ Fedora 21 ........... 43628 |================================ Fedora 22 ........... 65700 |================================================ Fedora 23 ........... 68810 |================================================== Fedora 23 + Updates . 68699 |================================================== GpuTest 0.7.0 Test: Pixmark Piano - Resolution: 1920 x 1080 - Mode: Fullscreen Points > Higher Is Better Fedora 19 ........... 27328 |========================= Fedora 20 ........... 55406 |================================================== Fedora 21 ........... 21397 |=================== Fedora 22 ........... 19909 |================== Fedora 23 ........... 20231 |================== Fedora 23 + Updates . 20536 |=================== GpuTest 0.7.0 Test: Pixmark Volplosion - Resolution: 1920 x 1080 - Mode: Fullscreen Points > Higher Is Better Fedora 19 ........... 27340 |========================= Fedora 20 ........... 55412 |================================================== Fedora 21 ........... 14239 |============= Fedora 22 ........... 13866 |============= Fedora 23 ........... 13849 |============ Fedora 23 + Updates . 13915 |=============