Nouveau Linux 4.5 vs. Radeon Drivers Nouveau and Radeon tests on Linux 4.5... Tests for a future article on phoronix by Michael Larabel. GeForce GTX 460: Processor: Intel Core i7-5960X @ 3.50GHz (16 Cores), Motherboard: Gigabyte X99-UD4-CF, Chipset: Intel Xeon E7 v3/Xeon, Memory: 16384MB, Disk: 2 x 120GB SanDisk SDSSDA12 + 120GB Samsung SSD 850, Graphics: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 460 768MB, Audio: Realtek ALC1150, Monitor: DELL P2415Q, Network: Intel Connection OS: Ubuntu 15.10, Kernel: 4.5.0-999-generic (x86_64) 20160206, Desktop: Unity, Display Server: X Server 1.17.2, Display Driver: nouveau 1.0.12, OpenGL: 4.1 Mesa 11.2.0-devel (padoka PPA) Gallium 0.4, Compiler: GCC 5.2.1 20151010, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 3840x2160 GeForce GTX 550 Ti: Processor: Intel Core i7-5960X @ 3.50GHz (16 Cores), Motherboard: Gigabyte X99-UD4-CF, Chipset: Intel Xeon E7 v3/Xeon, Memory: 16384MB, Disk: 2 x 120GB SanDisk SDSSDA12 + 120GB Samsung SSD 850, Graphics: eVGA NVIDIA GeForce GTX 550 Ti 1024MB, Audio: Realtek ALC1150, Monitor: DELL P2415Q, Network: Intel Connection OS: Ubuntu 15.10, Kernel: 4.5.0-999-generic (x86_64) 20160206, Desktop: Unity, Display Server: X Server 1.17.2, Display Driver: nouveau 1.0.12, OpenGL: 4.1 Mesa 11.2.0-devel (padoka PPA) Gallium 0.4, Compiler: GCC 5.2.1 20151010, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 3840x2160 GeForce GTX 650: Processor: Intel Core i7-5960X @ 3.50GHz (16 Cores), Motherboard: Gigabyte X99-UD4-CF, Chipset: Intel Xeon E7 v3/Xeon, Memory: 16384MB, Disk: 2 x 120GB SanDisk SDSSDA12 + 120GB Samsung SSD 850, Graphics: MSI NVIDIA GeForce GTX 650 1024MB, Audio: Realtek ALC1150, Monitor: DELL P2415Q, Network: Intel Connection OS: Ubuntu 15.10, Kernel: 4.5.0-999-generic (x86_64) 20160206, Desktop: Unity, Display Server: X Server 1.17.2, Display Driver: nouveau 1.0.12, OpenGL: 4.1 Mesa 11.2.0-devel (padoka PPA) Gallium 0.4, Compiler: GCC 5.2.1 20151010, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 3840x2160 GeForce GTX 680: Processor: Intel Core i7-5960X @ 3.50GHz (16 Cores), Motherboard: Gigabyte X99-UD4-CF, Chipset: Intel Xeon E7 v3/Xeon, Memory: 16384MB, Disk: 2 x 120GB SanDisk SDSSDA12 + 120GB Samsung SSD 850, Graphics: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 680 2048MB, Audio: Realtek ALC1150, Monitor: DELL P2415Q, Network: Intel Connection OS: Ubuntu 15.10, Kernel: 4.5.0-999-generic (x86_64) 20160206, Desktop: Unity, Display Server: X Server 1.17.2, Display Driver: nouveau 1.0.12, OpenGL: 4.1 Mesa 11.2.0-devel (padoka PPA) Gallium 0.4, Compiler: GCC 5.2.1 20151010, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 3840x2160 GeForce GTX 760: Processor: Intel Core i7-5960X @ 3.50GHz (16 Cores), Motherboard: Gigabyte X99-UD4-CF, Chipset: Intel Xeon E7 v3/Xeon, Memory: 16384MB, Disk: 2 x 120GB SanDisk SDSSDA12 + 120GB Samsung SSD 850, Graphics: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 760 2048MB, Audio: Realtek ALC1150, Monitor: DELL P2415Q, Network: Intel Connection OS: Ubuntu 15.10, Kernel: 4.5.0-999-generic (x86_64) 20160206, Desktop: Unity, Display Server: X Server 1.17.2, Display Driver: nouveau 1.0.12, OpenGL: 4.1 Mesa 11.2.0-devel (padoka PPA) Gallium 0.4, Compiler: GCC 5.2.1 20151010, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 3840x2160 GeForce GTX 780 Ti: Processor: Intel Core i7-5960X @ 3.50GHz (16 Cores), Motherboard: Gigabyte X99-UD4-CF, Chipset: Intel Xeon E7 v3/Xeon, Memory: 16384MB, Disk: 2 x 120GB SanDisk SDSSDA12 + 120GB Samsung SSD 850, Graphics: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 780 Ti 3072MB, Audio: Realtek ALC1150, Monitor: DELL P2415Q, Network: Intel Connection OS: Ubuntu 15.10, Kernel: 4.5.0-999-generic (x86_64) 20160206, Desktop: Unity, Display Server: X Server 1.17.2, Display Driver: nouveau 1.0.12, OpenGL: 4.1 Mesa 11.2.0-devel (padoka PPA) Gallium 0.4, Compiler: GCC 5.2.1 20151010, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 3840x2160 Radeon HD 5830: Processor: Intel Core i7-5960X @ 3.50GHz (16 Cores), Motherboard: Gigabyte X99-UD4-CF, Chipset: Intel Xeon E7 v3/Xeon, Memory: 16384MB, Disk: 2 x 120GB SanDisk SDSSDA12 + 120GB Samsung SSD 850, Graphics: Sapphire AMD Radeon HD 5830 1024MB, Audio: Realtek ALC1150, Monitor: DELL P2415Q, Network: Intel Connection OS: Ubuntu 15.10, Kernel: 4.5.0-999-generic (x86_64) 20160206, 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, Compiler: GCC 5.2.1 20151010, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 3840x2160 Radeon 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: 2 x 120GB SanDisk SDSSDA12 + 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: 4.5.0-999-generic (x86_64) 20160206, 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: 3840x2160 Radeon HD 6950: Processor: Intel Core i7-5960X @ 3.50GHz (16 Cores), Motherboard: Gigabyte X99-UD4-CF, Chipset: Intel Xeon E7 v3/Xeon, Memory: 16384MB, Disk: 2 x 120GB SanDisk SDSSDA12 + 120GB Samsung SSD 850, Graphics: Sapphire AMD Radeon HD 6950 2048MB, Audio: Realtek ALC1150, Monitor: DELL P2415Q, Network: Intel Connection OS: Ubuntu 15.10, Kernel: 4.5.0-999-generic (x86_64) 20160206, 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, Compiler: GCC 5.2.1 20151010, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 3840x2160 Radeon HD 7950: Processor: Intel Core i7-5960X @ 3.50GHz (16 Cores), Motherboard: Gigabyte X99-UD4-CF, Chipset: Intel Xeon E7 v3/Xeon, Memory: 16384MB, Disk: 2 x 120GB SanDisk SDSSDA12 + 120GB Samsung SSD 850, Graphics: XFX AMD Radeon HD 7950/8950 OEM / R9 280 3072MB, Audio: Realtek ALC1150, Monitor: DELL P2415Q, Network: Intel Connection OS: Ubuntu 15.10, Kernel: 4.5.0-999-generic (x86_64) 20160206, 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, Compiler: GCC 5.2.1 20151010, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 3840x2160 Radeon R9 285: Processor: Intel Core i7-5960X @ 3.50GHz (16 Cores), Motherboard: Gigabyte X99-UD4-CF, Chipset: Intel Xeon E7 v3/Xeon, Memory: 16384MB, Disk: 2 x 120GB SanDisk SDSSDA12 + 120GB Samsung SSD 850, Graphics: XFX AMD Radeon R9 285/380 2048MB, Audio: Realtek ALC1150, Monitor: DELL P2415Q, Network: Intel Connection OS: Ubuntu 15.10, Kernel: 4.5.0-999-generic (x86_64) 20160206, Desktop: Unity, Display Server: X Server 1.17.2, Display Driver: amdgpu 1.0.99, OpenGL: 4.1 Mesa 11.2.0-devel (padoka PPA) Gallium 0.4, Compiler: GCC 5.2.1 20151010, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 3840x2160 Radeon 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: 2 x 120GB SanDisk SDSSDA12 + 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: 4.5.0-999-generic (x86_64) 20160206, 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, Compiler: GCC 5.2.1 20151010, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 3840x2160 Radeon 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: 2 x 120GB SanDisk SDSSDA12 + 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: 4.5.0-999-generic (x86_64) 20160206, 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, Compiler: GCC 5.2.1 20151010, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 3840x2160 Counter-Strike: Global Offensive Resolution: 3840 x 2160 Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better GeForce GTX 460 .... 11.44 |==== GeForce GTX 550 Ti . 30.06 |=========== GeForce GTX 650 .... 15.44 |====== GeForce GTX 680 .... 59.45 |===================== GeForce GTX 760 .... 17.67 |====== GeForce GTX 780 Ti . 29.18 |========== Radeon HD 5830 ..... 119.64 |=========================================== Radeon HD 6870 ..... 134.69 |================================================ Radeon HD 6950 ..... 139.72 |================================================== Radeon HD 7950 ..... 44.70 |================ Radeon R9 285 ...... 16.46 |====== Radeon R9 290 ...... 71.13 |========================= Radeon R7 370 ...... 46.86 |================= DiRT Showdown Resolution: 1920 x 1080 - Graphics Preset: Ultra - Multi-Sampling: 4x MSAA Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better GeForce GTX 460 .... 13.07 |=========== GeForce GTX 550 Ti . 13.07 |=========== GeForce GTX 650 .... 18.29 |================ GeForce GTX 680 .... 27.00 |======================= GeForce GTX 760 .... 14.61 |============ GeForce GTX 780 Ti . 14.54 |============ Radeon HD 5830 ..... 52.88 |============================================= Radeon HD 6950 ..... 59.80 |=================================================== Radeon R9 285 ...... 18.95 |================ Radeon R9 290 ...... 57.09 |================================================= Radeon R7 370 ...... 54.28 |============================================== OpenArena 0.8.8 Resolution: 1920 x 1080 Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better GeForce GTX 460 .... 11.60 |=== GeForce GTX 550 Ti . 38.50 |========= GeForce GTX 650 .... 103.10 |======================= GeForce GTX 680 .... 221.25 |================================================== GeForce GTX 760 .... 116.93 |========================== GeForce GTX 780 Ti . 152.10 |================================== Radeon HD 5830 ..... 111.83 |========================= Radeon HD 6870 ..... 167.77 |====================================== Radeon HD 6950 ..... 113.10 |========================== Radeon R9 285 ...... 49.03 |=========== Radeon R9 290 ...... 220.98 |================================================== Radeon R7 370 ...... 192.43 |=========================================== OpenArena 0.8.8 Resolution: 1920 x 1080 - Total Frame Time Milliseconds < Lower Is Better GeForce GTX 460 .... MIN: 42 AVG: 85 MAX: 99 GeForce GTX 550 Ti . MIN: 15 AVG: 26 MAX: 41 GeForce GTX 650 .... MIN: 5 AVG: 10 MAX: 18 GeForce GTX 680 .... MIN: 2 AVG: 5 MAX: 23 GeForce GTX 760 .... MIN: 5 AVG: 9 MAX: 24 GeForce GTX 780 Ti . MIN: 2 AVG: 7 MAX: 24 Radeon HD 5830 ..... MIN: 3 AVG: 9 MAX: 20 Radeon HD 6870 ..... MIN: 2 AVG: 6 MAX: 13 Radeon HD 6950 ..... MIN: 3 AVG: 9 MAX: 19 Radeon R9 285 ...... MIN: 3 AVG: 20 MAX: 51 Radeon R9 290 ...... MIN: 1 AVG: 5 MAX: 34 Radeon R7 370 ...... MIN: 2 AVG: 5 MAX: 29 Tesseract 2014-05-12 Resolution: 3840 x 2160 Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better GeForce GTX 460 .... 12.04 |==== GeForce GTX 550 Ti . 23.33 |======== GeForce GTX 650 .... 29.28 |=========== GeForce GTX 680 .... 88.36 |================================ GeForce GTX 760 .... 32.00 |============ GeForce GTX 780 Ti . 46.69 |================= Radeon HD 5830 ..... 107.00 |======================================= Radeon HD 6870 ..... 131.09 |=============================================== Radeon HD 6950 ..... 138.78 |================================================== Radeon R9 285 ...... 12.88 |===== Radeon R9 290 ...... 106.38 |====================================== Radeon R7 370 ...... 70.81 |========================== Team Fortress 2 Resolution: 3840 x 2160 Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better GeForce GTX 460 .... 8.40 |===== GeForce GTX 550 Ti . 25.17 |============== GeForce GTX 650 .... 32.72 |================== GeForce GTX 680 .... 81.56 |============================================== GeForce GTX 760 .... 35.66 |==================== GeForce GTX 780 Ti . 51.59 |============================= Radeon HD 5830 ..... 91.23 |=================================================== Radeon HD 6870 ..... 89.09 |================================================== Radeon HD 6950 ..... 91.08 |=================================================== Radeon R7 370 ...... 63.32 |=================================== Unigine Heaven 4.0 Resolution: 1920 x 1080 - Mode: Fullscreen Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better GeForce GTX 460 .... 1.07 |= GeForce GTX 550 Ti . 3.03 |==== GeForce GTX 650 .... 11.07 |============== GeForce GTX 680 .... 33.61 |============================================ GeForce GTX 760 .... 11.38 |=============== GeForce GTX 780 Ti . 17.28 |====================== Radeon HD 5830 ..... 4.10 |===== Radeon HD 6870 ..... 8.76 |=========== Radeon HD 6950 ..... 12.32 |================ Radeon R9 285 ...... 6.56 |========= Radeon R9 290 ...... 39.31 |=================================================== Unigine Valley 1.0 Resolution: 1920 x 1080 - Mode: Fullscreen Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better GeForce GTX 460 .... 1.13 |= GeForce GTX 550 Ti . 3.60 |=== GeForce GTX 650 .... 12.04 |========== GeForce GTX 680 .... 42.27 |==================================== GeForce GTX 760 .... 13.00 |=========== GeForce GTX 780 Ti . 19.18 |================ Radeon HD 5830 ..... 17.52 |=============== Radeon HD 6870 ..... 22.71 |=================== Radeon HD 6950 ..... 28.68 |======================== Radeon R9 285 ...... 10.07 |======== Radeon R9 290 ...... 60.49 |=================================================== Xonotic 0.8 Resolution: 3840 x 2160 - Effects Quality: Ultra Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better GeForce GTX 460 .... 10.55 |=== GeForce GTX 550 Ti . 23.68 |======= GeForce GTX 650 .... 39.96 |=========== GeForce GTX 680 .... 136.85 |======================================= GeForce GTX 760 .... 46.95 |============= GeForce GTX 780 Ti . 69.02 |==================== Radeon HD 5830 ..... 141.16 |======================================== Radeon HD 6870 ..... 153.66 |============================================ Radeon HD 6950 ..... 175.90 |================================================== Radeon R9 285 ...... 20.83 |====== Radeon R9 290 ...... 149.74 |=========================================== Xonotic 0.8 Resolution: 3840 x 2160 - Effects Quality: Ultimate Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better GeForce GTX 460 .... 7.17 |=== GeForce GTX 550 Ti . 16.80 |====== GeForce GTX 650 .... 28.36 |=========== GeForce GTX 680 .... 96.99 |===================================== GeForce GTX 760 .... 32.99 |============ GeForce GTX 780 Ti . 50.80 |=================== Radeon HD 5830 ..... 93.36 |=================================== Radeon HD 6870 ..... 105.73 |======================================== Radeon HD 6950 ..... 132.32 |================================================== Radeon R9 285 ...... 18.25 |======= Radeon R9 290 ...... 116.08 |============================================ clpeak OpenCL Test: Kernel Latency us < Lower Is Better Radeon HD 6870 . 153.86 |====================================================== Radeon R9 285 .. 141.34 |================================================== Radeon R9 290 .. 112.26 |======================================= clpeak OpenCL Test: Integer Compute INT GIOPS > Higher Is Better Radeon HD 6870 . 181.80 |====== Radeon R9 285 .. 213.84 |======= Radeon R9 290 .. 1578.87 |===================================================== clpeak OpenCL Test: Single-Precision Float GFLOPS > Higher Is Better Radeon HD 6870 . 361.78 |==== Radeon R9 285 .. 1045.48 |============ Radeon R9 290 .. 4610.42 |===================================================== clpeak OpenCL Test: Double-Precision Double GFLOPS > Higher Is Better Radeon R9 285 . 67.03 |====== Radeon R9 290 . 596.68 |======================================================= clpeak OpenCL Test: Global Memory Bandwidth GBPS > Higher Is Better Radeon R9 285 . 13.06 |===== Radeon R9 290 . 147.46 |======================================================= clpeak OpenCL Test: Transfer Bandwidth enqueueReadBuffer GBPS > Higher Is Better Radeon R9 285 . 10.15 |======================================================== Radeon R9 290 . 9.58 |===================================================== clpeak OpenCL Test: Transfer Bandwidth enqueueWriteBuffer GBPS > Higher Is Better Radeon R9 285 . 15.06 |======================================================== Radeon R9 290 . 12.88 |================================================