RadeonSI Mesa 11.2 vs. Mesa 12.0 RC1 Testing Tests by Michael Larabel of Phoronix.com. Mesa 11.2: R9 270X: Processor: Intel Xeon E3-1280 v5 @ 4.00GHz (8 Cores), Motherboard: MSI C236A WORKSTATION (MS-7998) v1.0, Chipset: Intel Sky Lake, Memory: 16384MB, Disk: Samsung SSD 950 PRO 256GB, Graphics: Gigabyte AMD Radeon R7 370 / R9 270X/370 OEM 2048MB, Audio: Realtek ALC1150, Monitor: DELL P2415Q, Network: Intel Connection OS: Ubuntu 16.04, Kernel: 4.6.0-040600-generic (x86_64), Desktop: Unity 7.4.0, Display Server: X Server 1.18.3, Display Driver: modesetting 1.18.3, OpenGL: 4.1 Mesa 11.2.0 Gallium 0.4, Compiler: GCC 5.3.1 20160413, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 3840x2160 Mesa 11.2: R9 285: Processor: Intel Xeon E3-1280 v5 @ 4.00GHz (8 Cores), Motherboard: MSI C236A WORKSTATION (MS-7998) v1.0, Chipset: Intel Sky Lake, Memory: 16384MB, Disk: Samsung SSD 950 PRO 256GB, Graphics: XFX AMD Radeon R9 285/380 2048MB, Audio: Realtek ALC1150, Monitor: DELL P2415Q, Network: Intel Connection OS: Ubuntu 16.04, Kernel: 4.6.0-040600-generic (x86_64), Desktop: Unity 7.4.0, Display Server: X Server 1.18.3, Display Driver: modesetting 1.18.3, OpenGL: 4.1 Mesa 11.2.0 Gallium 0.4, Compiler: GCC 5.3.1 20160413, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 3840x2160 Mesa 11.2: R7 370: Processor: Intel Xeon E3-1280 v5 @ 4.00GHz (8 Cores), Motherboard: MSI C236A WORKSTATION (MS-7998) v1.0, Chipset: Intel Sky Lake, Memory: 16384MB, Disk: Samsung SSD 950 PRO 256GB, Graphics: MSI AMD Radeon R7 370 / R9 270/370 OEM 4096MB, Audio: Realtek ALC1150, Monitor: DELL P2415Q, Network: Intel Connection OS: Ubuntu 16.04, Kernel: 4.6.0-040600-generic (x86_64), Desktop: Unity 7.4.0, Display Server: X Server 1.18.3, Display Driver: modesetting 1.18.3, OpenGL: 4.1 Mesa 11.2.0 Gallium 0.4, Compiler: GCC 5.3.1 20160413, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 3840x2160 Mesa 11.2: R9 Fury: Processor: Intel Xeon E3-1280 v5 @ 4.00GHz (8 Cores), Motherboard: MSI C236A WORKSTATION (MS-7998) v1.0, Chipset: Intel Sky Lake, Memory: 16384MB, Disk: Samsung SSD 950 PRO 256GB, Graphics: Sapphire AMD Radeon R9 FURY / NANO 4096MB, Audio: Realtek ALC1150, Monitor: DELL P2415Q, Network: Intel Connection OS: Ubuntu 16.04, Kernel: 4.6.0-040600-generic (x86_64), Desktop: Unity 7.4.0, Display Server: X Server 1.18.3, Display Driver: modesetting 1.18.3, OpenGL: 4.1 Mesa 11.2.0 Gallium 0.4, Compiler: GCC 5.3.1 20160413, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 3840x2160 Mesa Git: R9 270X: Processor: Intel Xeon E3-1280 v5 @ 4.00GHz (8 Cores), Motherboard: MSI C236A WORKSTATION (MS-7998) v1.0, Chipset: Intel Sky Lake, Memory: 16384MB, Disk: Samsung SSD 950 PRO 256GB, Graphics: Gigabyte AMD Radeon R7 370 / R9 270X/370 OEM 2048MB, Audio: Realtek ALC1150, Monitor: DELL P2415Q, Network: Intel Connection OS: Ubuntu 16.04, Kernel: 4.6.0-040600-generic (x86_64), Desktop: Unity 7.4.0, Display Server: X Server 1.18.3, Display Driver: modesetting 1.18.3, OpenGL: 4.2 Mesa 11.3.0-devel (padoka PPA) Gallium 0.4, Compiler: GCC 5.3.1 20160413, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 3840x2160 Mesa Git: R9 285: Processor: Intel Xeon E3-1280 v5 @ 4.00GHz (8 Cores), Motherboard: MSI C236A WORKSTATION (MS-7998) v1.0, Chipset: Intel Sky Lake, Memory: 16384MB, Disk: Samsung SSD 950 PRO 256GB, Graphics: XFX AMD Radeon R9 285/380 2048MB, Audio: Realtek ALC1150, Monitor: DELL P2415Q, Network: Intel Connection OS: Ubuntu 16.04, Kernel: 4.6.0-040600-generic (x86_64), Desktop: Unity 7.4.0, Display Server: X Server 1.18.3, Display Driver: modesetting 1.18.3, OpenGL: 4.3 Mesa 11.3.0-devel (padoka PPA) Gallium 0.4, Compiler: GCC 5.3.1 20160413, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 3840x2160 Mesa Git: R7 370: Processor: Intel Xeon E3-1280 v5 @ 4.00GHz (8 Cores), Motherboard: MSI C236A WORKSTATION (MS-7998) v1.0, Chipset: Intel Sky Lake, Memory: 16384MB, Disk: Samsung SSD 950 PRO 256GB, Graphics: MSI AMD Radeon R7 370 / R9 270/370 OEM 4096MB, Audio: Realtek ALC1150, Monitor: DELL P2415Q, Network: Intel Connection OS: Ubuntu 16.04, Kernel: 4.6.0-040600-generic (x86_64), Desktop: Unity 7.4.0, Display Server: X Server 1.18.3, Display Driver: modesetting 1.18.3, OpenGL: 4.2 Mesa 11.3.0-devel (padoka PPA) Gallium 0.4, Compiler: GCC 5.3.1 20160413, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 3840x2160 Mesa Git: R9 Fury: Processor: Intel Xeon E3-1280 v5 @ 4.00GHz (8 Cores), Motherboard: MSI C236A WORKSTATION (MS-7998) v1.0, Chipset: Intel Sky Lake, Memory: 16384MB, Disk: Samsung SSD 950 PRO 256GB, Graphics: Sapphire AMD Radeon R9 FURY / NANO 4096MB, Audio: Realtek ALC1150, Monitor: DELL P2415Q, Network: Intel Connection OS: Ubuntu 16.04, Kernel: 4.6.0-040600-generic (x86_64), Desktop: Unity 7.4.0, Display Server: X Server 1.18.3, Display Driver: modesetting 1.18.3, OpenGL: 4.3 Mesa 11.3.0-devel (padoka PPA) Gallium 0.4, Compiler: GCC 5.3.1 20160413, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 3840x2160 Dota 2 Resolution: 1920 x 1080 - Renderer: OpenGL Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better Mesa 11.2: R9 270X . 90.40 |=================================================== Mesa 11.2: R9 285 .. 79.23 |============================================ Mesa 11.2: R7 370 .. 74.77 |========================================== Mesa 11.2: R9 Fury . 90.93 |=================================================== Mesa Git: R9 270X .. 77.12 |=========================================== Mesa Git: R9 285 ... 80.92 |============================================= Mesa Git: R7 370 ... 84.93 |================================================ Mesa Git: R9 Fury .. 79.58 |============================================= Dota 2 Resolution: 3840 x 2160 - Renderer: OpenGL Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better Mesa 11.2: R9 270X . 35.70 |======================== Mesa 11.2: R9 285 .. 42.40 |============================ Mesa 11.2: R7 370 .. 30.93 |==================== Mesa 11.2: R9 Fury . 75.30 |================================================== Mesa Git: R9 270X .. 36.87 |======================== Mesa Git: R9 285 ... 44.33 |============================= Mesa Git: R7 370 ... 32.17 |===================== Mesa Git: R9 Fury .. 77.27 |=================================================== Tesseract 2014-05-12 Resolution: 1920 x 1080 Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better Mesa 11.2: R9 270X . 167.13 |================================== Mesa 11.2: R9 285 .. 152.79 |=============================== Mesa 11.2: R7 370 .. 150.44 |=============================== Mesa 11.2: R9 Fury . 243.18 |================================================== Mesa Git: R9 270X .. 166.59 |================================== Mesa Git: R9 285 ... 144.84 |============================== Mesa Git: R7 370 ... 155.07 |================================ Mesa Git: R9 Fury .. 236.00 |================================================= Tesseract 2014-05-12 Resolution: 3840 x 2160 Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better Mesa 11.2: R9 270X . 78.16 |======================== Mesa 11.2: R9 285 .. 63.84 |==================== Mesa 11.2: R7 370 .. 70.73 |====================== Mesa 11.2: R9 Fury . 162.22 |================================================== Mesa Git: R9 270X .. 79.08 |======================== Mesa Git: R9 285 ... 62.33 |=================== Mesa Git: R7 370 ... 70.53 |====================== Mesa Git: R9 Fury .. 162.37 |================================================== Unigine Heaven 4.0 Resolution: 1920 x 1080 - Mode: Fullscreen Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better Mesa 11.2: R9 270X . 24.50 |================= Mesa 11.2: R9 285 .. 29.67 |==================== Mesa 11.2: R7 370 .. 22.27 |=============== Mesa 11.2: R9 Fury . 45.00 |=============================== Mesa Git: R9 270X .. 35.15 |======================== Mesa Git: R9 285 ... 42.70 |============================= Mesa Git: R7 370 ... 30.96 |===================== Mesa Git: R9 Fury .. 74.87 |=================================================== Unigine Valley 1.0 Resolution: 1920 x 1080 - Mode: Fullscreen Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better Mesa 11.2: R9 270X . 40.58 |========================= Mesa 11.2: R9 285 .. 47.70 |============================= Mesa 11.2: R7 370 .. 34.59 |===================== Mesa 11.2: R9 Fury . 80.10 |================================================= Mesa Git: R9 270X .. 41.17 |========================= Mesa Git: R9 285 ... 48.44 |============================== Mesa Git: R7 370 ... 35.58 |====================== Mesa Git: R9 Fury .. 82.91 |=================================================== Xonotic 0.8 Resolution: 3840 x 2160 - Effects Quality: Low Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better Mesa 11.2: R9 270X . 327.24 |============================================== Mesa 11.2: R9 285 .. 343.75 |================================================ Mesa 11.2: R7 370 .. 318.98 |============================================= Mesa 11.2: R9 Fury . 355.54 |================================================== Mesa Git: R9 270X .. 337.34 |=============================================== Mesa Git: R9 285 ... 340.92 |================================================ Mesa Git: R7 370 ... 335.43 |=============================================== Mesa Git: R9 Fury .. 352.20 |================================================== Xonotic 0.8 Resolution: 3840 x 2160 - Effects Quality: Ultimate Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better Mesa 11.2: R9 270X . 89.92 |============================ Mesa 11.2: R9 285 .. 102.08 |================================ Mesa 11.2: R7 370 .. 78.04 |======================== Mesa 11.2: R9 Fury . 160.48 |================================================== Mesa Git: R9 270X .. 92.64 |============================= Mesa Git: R9 285 ... 101.57 |================================ Mesa Git: R7 370 ... 79.54 |========================= Mesa Git: R9 Fury .. 156.37 |================================================= GpuTest 0.7.0 Test: Plot3D - Resolution: 1920 x 1080 - Mode: Fullscreen Points > Higher Is Better Mesa 11.2: R9 270X . 29405 |==================================== Mesa 11.2: R9 285 .. 28837 |=================================== Mesa 11.2: R7 370 .. 27695 |================================== Mesa 11.2: R9 Fury . 41551 |=================================================== Mesa Git: R9 270X .. 29377 |==================================== Mesa Git: R9 285 ... 28888 |=================================== Mesa Git: R7 370 ... 27844 |================================== Mesa Git: R9 Fury .. 41728 |=================================================== GpuTest 0.7.0 Test: Furmark - Resolution: 1920 x 1080 - Mode: Fullscreen Points > Higher Is Better Mesa 11.2: R9 270X . 1319 |====================== Mesa 11.2: R9 285 .. 1402 |======================= Mesa 11.2: R7 370 .. 1065 |================== Mesa 11.2: R9 Fury . 3091 |==================================================== Mesa Git: R9 270X .. 1320 |====================== Mesa Git: R9 285 ... 1401 |======================= Mesa Git: R7 370 ... 1059 |================== Mesa Git: R9 Fury .. 3111 |==================================================== GpuTest 0.7.0 Test: Triangle - Resolution: 1920 x 1080 - Mode: Fullscreen Points > Higher Is Better Mesa 11.2: R9 270X . 74901 |============================= Mesa 11.2: R9 285 .. 58221 |====================== Mesa 11.2: R7 370 .. 67409 |========================== Mesa 11.2: R9 Fury . 129650 |================================================== Mesa Git: R9 270X .. 77056 |============================== Mesa Git: R9 285 ... 58390 |======================= Mesa Git: R7 370 ... 67780 |========================== Mesa Git: R9 Fury .. 128610 |================================================== GpuTest 0.7.0 Test: Pixmark Piano - Resolution: 1920 x 1080 - Mode: Fullscreen Points > Higher Is Better Mesa 11.2: R9 270X . 138 |================= Mesa 11.2: R9 285 .. 199 |======================== Mesa 11.2: R7 370 .. 108 |============= Mesa 11.2: R9 Fury . 440 |===================================================== Mesa Git: R9 270X .. 137 |================ Mesa Git: R9 285 ... 200 |======================== Mesa Git: R7 370 ... 107 |============= Mesa Git: R9 Fury .. 441 |===================================================== GpuTest 0.7.0 Test: Pixmark Volplosion - Resolution: 1920 x 1080 - Mode: Fullscreen Points > Higher Is Better Mesa 11.2: R9 270X . 375 |================= Mesa 11.2: R9 285 .. 521 |======================= Mesa 11.2: R7 370 .. 292 |============= Mesa 11.2: R9 Fury . 1157 |==================================================== Mesa Git: R9 270X .. 382 |================= Mesa Git: R9 285 ... 527 |======================= Mesa Git: R7 370 ... 297 |============= Mesa Git: R9 Fury .. 1168 |====================================================