Longterm open-source Radeon Linux comparison on Linux 4.6 and Mesa 12.1-dev from Ubuntu 16.04. Tests by Michael Larabel for a future article on Phoronix for its 12th birthday!
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Big 12 Birthday Radeon Compare
Longterm open-source Radeon Linux comparison on Linux 4.6 and Mesa 12.1-dev from Ubuntu 16.04. Tests by Michael Larabel for a future article on Phoronix for its 12th birthday!
,,"HD 3650","HD 3850","HD 4650","HD 4770","HD 4850","HD 4870","HD 5830","HD 6570","HD 6870","HD 6950","HD 7950","R7 260X","R9 270X","R9 285","R9 290","R7 370","R9 Fury"
Processor,,Intel Xeon E3-1280 v5 @ 4.00GHz (8 Cores),Intel Xeon E3-1280 v5 @ 4.00GHz (8 Cores),Intel Xeon E3-1280 v5 @ 4.00GHz (8 Cores),Intel Xeon E3-1280 v5 @ 4.00GHz (8 Cores),Intel Xeon E3-1280 v5 @ 4.00GHz (8 Cores),Intel Xeon E3-1280 v5 @ 4.00GHz (8 Cores),Intel Xeon E3-1280 v5 @ 4.00GHz (8 Cores),Intel Xeon E3-1280 v5 @ 4.00GHz (8 Cores),Intel Xeon E3-1280 v5 @ 4.00GHz (8 Cores),Intel Xeon E3-1280 v5 @ 4.00GHz (8 Cores),Intel Xeon E3-1280 v5 @ 4.00GHz (8 Cores),Intel Xeon E3-1280 v5 @ 4.00GHz (8 Cores),Intel Xeon E3-1280 v5 @ 4.00GHz (8 Cores),Intel Xeon E3-1280 v5 @ 4.00GHz (8 Cores),Intel Xeon E3-1280 v5 @ 4.00GHz (8 Cores),Intel Xeon E3-1280 v5 @ 4.00GHz (8 Cores),Intel Xeon E3-1280 v5 @ 4.00GHz (8 Cores)
Motherboard,,MSI C236A WORKSTATION (MS-7998) v1.0,MSI C236A WORKSTATION (MS-7998) v1.0,MSI C236A WORKSTATION (MS-7998) v1.0,MSI C236A WORKSTATION (MS-7998) v1.0,MSI C236A WORKSTATION (MS-7998) v1.0,MSI C236A WORKSTATION (MS-7998) v1.0,MSI C236A WORKSTATION (MS-7998) v1.0,MSI C236A WORKSTATION (MS-7998) v1.0,MSI C236A WORKSTATION (MS-7998) v1.0,MSI C236A WORKSTATION (MS-7998) v1.0,MSI C236A WORKSTATION (MS-7998) v1.0,MSI C236A WORKSTATION (MS-7998) v1.0,MSI C236A WORKSTATION (MS-7998) v1.0,MSI C236A WORKSTATION (MS-7998) v1.0,MSI C236A WORKSTATION (MS-7998) v1.0,MSI C236A WORKSTATION (MS-7998) v1.0,MSI C236A WORKSTATION (MS-7998) v1.0
Chipset,,Intel Sky Lake,Intel Sky Lake,Intel Sky Lake,Intel Sky Lake,Intel Sky Lake,Intel Sky Lake,Intel Sky Lake,Intel Sky Lake,Intel Sky Lake,Intel Sky Lake,Intel Sky Lake,Intel Sky Lake,Intel Sky Lake,Intel Sky Lake,Intel Sky Lake,Intel Sky Lake,Intel Sky Lake
Memory,,16384MB,16384MB,16384MB,16384MB,16384MB,16384MB,16384MB,16384MB,16384MB,16384MB,16384MB,16384MB,16384MB,16384MB,16384MB,16384MB,16384MB
Disk,,Samsung SSD 950 PRO 256GB,Samsung SSD 950 PRO 256GB,Samsung SSD 950 PRO 256GB,Samsung SSD 950 PRO 256GB,Samsung SSD 950 PRO 256GB,Samsung SSD 950 PRO 256GB,Samsung SSD 950 PRO 256GB,Samsung SSD 950 PRO 256GB,Samsung SSD 950 PRO 256GB,Samsung SSD 950 PRO 256GB,Samsung SSD 950 PRO 256GB,Samsung SSD 950 PRO 256GB,Samsung SSD 950 PRO 256GB,Samsung SSD 950 PRO 256GB,Samsung SSD 950 PRO 256GB,Samsung SSD 950 PRO 256GB,Samsung SSD 950 PRO 256GB
Graphics,,Sapphire AMD Radeon HD 3650/3750/4570/4580 512MB,ASUS AMD Radeon HD 3690/3850 256MB,Sapphire AMD Radeon HD 4670 512MB,Sapphire AMD Radeon HD 4770 512MB,AMD Radeon HD 4850 512MB,AMD Radeon HD 4870 512MB,Sapphire AMD Radeon HD 5830 1024MB,Sapphire AMD Radeon HD 6570/7570/8550 512MB,Sapphire AMD Radeon HD 6870 1024MB,Sapphire AMD Radeon HD 6950 2048MB,XFX AMD Radeon HD 7950/8950 OEM / R9 280 3072MB,Sapphire AMD Radeon R7 260X/360 2048MB,Gigabyte AMD Radeon R7 370 / R9 270X/370 OEM 2048MB,XFX AMD Radeon R9 285/380 2048MB,XFX AMD Radeon R9 290 4096MB,MSI AMD Radeon R7 370 / R9 270/370 OEM 4096MB,Sapphire AMD Radeon R9 FURY / NANO 4096MB
Audio,,Realtek ALC1150,Realtek ALC1150,Realtek ALC1150,Realtek ALC1150,Realtek ALC1150,Realtek ALC1150,Realtek ALC1150,Realtek ALC1150,Realtek ALC1150,Realtek ALC1150,Realtek ALC1150,Realtek ALC1150,Realtek ALC1150,Realtek ALC1150,Realtek ALC1150,Realtek ALC1150,Realtek ALC1150
Network,,Intel Connection,Intel Connection,Intel Connection,Intel Connection,Intel Connection,Intel Connection,Intel Connection,Intel Connection,Intel Connection,Intel Connection,Intel Connection,Intel Connection,Intel Connection,Intel Connection,Intel Connection,Intel Connection,Intel Connection
OS,,Ubuntu 16.04,Ubuntu 16.04,Ubuntu 16.04,Ubuntu 16.04,Ubuntu 16.04,Ubuntu 16.04,Ubuntu 16.04,Ubuntu 16.04,Ubuntu 16.04,Ubuntu 16.04,Ubuntu 16.04,Ubuntu 16.04,Ubuntu 16.04,Ubuntu 16.04,Ubuntu 16.04,Ubuntu 16.04,Ubuntu 16.04
Kernel,,4.6.0-040600-generic (x86_64),4.6.0-040600-generic (x86_64),4.6.0-040600-generic (x86_64),4.6.0-040600-generic (x86_64),4.6.0-040600-generic (x86_64),4.6.0-040600-generic (x86_64),4.6.0-040600-generic (x86_64),4.6.0-040600-generic (x86_64),4.6.0-040600-generic (x86_64),4.6.0-040600-generic (x86_64),4.6.0-040600-generic (x86_64),4.6.0-040600-generic (x86_64),4.6.0-040600-generic (x86_64),4.6.0-040600-generic (x86_64),4.6.0-040600-generic (x86_64),4.6.0-040600-generic (x86_64),4.6.0-040600-generic (x86_64)
Desktop,,Unity 7.4.0,Unity 7.4.0,Unity 7.4.0,Unity 7.4.0,Unity 7.4.0,Unity 7.4.0,Unity 7.4.0,Unity 7.4.0,Unity 7.4.0,Unity 7.4.0,Unity 7.4.0,Unity 7.4.0,Unity 7.4.0,Unity 7.4.0,Unity 7.4.0,Unity 7.4.0,Unity 7.4.0
Display Server,,X Server 1.18.3,X Server 1.18.3,X Server 1.18.3,X Server 1.18.3,X Server 1.18.3,X Server 1.18.3,X Server 1.18.3,X Server 1.18.3,X Server 1.18.3,X Server 1.18.3,X Server 1.18.3,X Server 1.18.3,X Server 1.18.3,X Server 1.18.3,X Server 1.18.3,X Server 1.18.3,X Server 1.18.3
Display Driver,,modesetting 1.18.3,modesetting 1.18.3,modesetting 1.18.3,modesetting 1.18.3,modesetting 1.18.3,modesetting 1.18.3,modesetting 1.18.3,modesetting 1.18.3,modesetting 1.18.3,modesetting 1.18.3,modesetting 1.18.3,modesetting 1.18.3,modesetting 1.18.3,modesetting 1.18.3,modesetting 1.18.3,modesetting 1.18.3,modesetting 1.18.3
OpenGL,,3.3 Mesa 12.1.0-devel (padoka PPA) Gallium 0.4,3.3 Mesa 12.1.0-devel (padoka PPA) Gallium 0.4,3.3 Mesa 12.1.0-devel (padoka PPA) Gallium 0.4,3.3 Mesa 12.1.0-devel (padoka PPA) Gallium 0.4,3.3 Mesa 12.1.0-devel (padoka PPA) Gallium 0.4,3.3 Mesa 12.1.0-devel (padoka PPA) Gallium 0.4,4.1 Mesa 12.1.0-devel (padoka PPA) Gallium 0.4,3.3 Mesa 12.1.0-devel (padoka PPA) Gallium 0.4,3.3 Mesa 12.1.0-devel (padoka PPA) Gallium 0.4,4.1 Mesa 12.1.0-devel (padoka PPA) Gallium 0.4,4.2 Mesa 12.1.0-devel (padoka PPA) Gallium 0.4,4.3 Mesa 12.1.0-devel (padoka PPA) Gallium 0.4,4.2 Mesa 12.1.0-devel (padoka PPA) Gallium 0.4,4.3 Mesa 12.1.0-devel (padoka PPA) Gallium 0.4,4.3 Mesa 12.1.0-devel (padoka PPA) Gallium 0.4,4.2 Mesa 12.1.0-devel (padoka PPA) Gallium 0.4,4.3 Mesa 12.1.0-devel (padoka PPA) Gallium 0.4
Compiler,,GCC 5.3.1 20160413,GCC 5.3.1 20160413,GCC 5.3.1 20160413,GCC 5.3.1 20160413,GCC 5.3.1 20160413,GCC 5.3.1 20160413,GCC 5.3.1 20160413,GCC 5.3.1 20160413,GCC 5.3.1 20160413,GCC 5.3.1 20160413,GCC 5.3.1 20160413,GCC 5.3.1 20160413,GCC 5.3.1 20160413,GCC 5.3.1 20160413,GCC 5.3.1 20160413,GCC 5.3.1 20160413,GCC 5.3.1 20160413
File-System,,ext4,ext4,ext4,ext4,ext4,ext4,ext4,ext4,ext4,ext4,ext4,ext4,ext4,ext4,ext4,ext4,ext4
Screen Resolution,,1920x1080,1920x1080,1920x1080,1920x1080,1920x1080,1920x1080,1920x1080,1920x1080,1920x1080,1920x1080,1920x1080,1920x1080,1920x1080,1920x1080,1920x1080,1920x1080,1920x1080
,,"HD 3650","HD 3850","HD 4650","HD 4770","HD 4850","HD 4870","HD 5830","HD 6570","HD 6870","HD 6950","HD 7950","R7 260X","R9 270X","R9 285","R9 290","R7 370","R9 Fury"
"Dota 2 - Resolution: 1920 x 1080 - Renderer: OpenGL (FPS)",HIB,5.97,6.30,12.80,19.07,19,22.80,42.13,,52.93,66.33,90.10,72.47,87.63,89.60,90.47,88.20,89.13
"Dota 2 - Resolution: 1920 x 1080 - Renderer: OpenGL (FPS/Watt)",HIB,0.09,0.07,,0.22,0.15,0.14,0.32,,0.40,0.41,0.58,0.65,0.60,0.59,0.54,0.67,0.79
"Dota 2 - System Power Consumption Monitor (Watts)",LIB,67.81,85,,85.3,123.55,160.29,132.05,47.32,133.47,160.11,155.48,111.8,146.05,152.1,167.62,131.63,112.88
"GpuTest - Test: Furmark - Resolution: 1920 x 1080 - Mode: Fullscreen (Points)",HIB,,571,412,531,701,824,1559,615,1883,2102,3014,1787,3515,3854,5432,3239,8711
"GpuTest - Test: Furmark - Resolution: 1920 x 1080 - Mode: Fullscreen (Points/Watt)",HIB,,4.99,,5.64,4.80,4.32,8.94,8.20,9.90,9.53,15.15,13.59,16.83,16.71,16.92,17.48,21.66
"GpuTest - System Power Consumption Monitor (Watts)",LIB,,114.52,,94.23,146.04,190.74,174.42,75.03,190.27,220.65,198.93,131.49,208.84,230.68,320.97,185.35,402.15
"GpuTest - Test: Triangle - Resolution: 1920 x 1080 - Mode: Fullscreen (Points)",HIB,,82134,43301,49242,66316,78653,132315,64873,218732,148235,278222,172330,288155,210980,303175,263733,428982
"GpuTest - Test: Triangle - Resolution: 1920 x 1080 - Mode: Fullscreen (Points/Watt)",HIB,,809.56,,578.54,476.96,516.53,942.46,984.33,1451.91,955.50,1767.11,1623.64,1872.46,1264.94,1558.06,1978.94,2413.80
"GpuTest - System Power Consumption Monitor (Watts)",LIB,,101.46,,85.11,139.04,152.27,140.39,65.91,150.65,155.14,157.44,106.14,153.89,166.79,194.58,133.27,177.72
"GpuTest - Test: Plot3D - Resolution: 1920 x 1080 - Mode: Fullscreen (Points)",HIB,,9040,5991,8988,8079,9671,11199,5384,18983,31345,45070,40378,53549,49065,52256,53162,56218
"GpuTest - Test: Plot3D - Resolution: 1920 x 1080 - Mode: Fullscreen (Points/Watt)",HIB,,102.91,,110.96,71.55,66.42,97.75,91.77,152.93,225.81,340.84,432.54,406.90,311.80,281.29,467.79,373.73
"GpuTest - System Power Consumption Monitor (Watts)",LIB,,87.84,,81,112.92,145.59,114.57,58.67,124.13,138.81,132.23,93.35,131.6,157.36,185.77,113.65,150.43
"Meta Performance Per Watt - Performance Per Watt (Performance/Watt)",HIB,,7668.95,,4933.90,6300.88,7478.16,12163.40,7131.66,20055.75,15230.58,27310.94,17976.13,31498.06,18958.87,25897.73,26788.70,35407.73
"OpenArena - Resolution: 1920 x 1080 (FPS)",HIB,,91.23,42.93,52.27,68.50,78.70,111.83,71.50,172.47,109.90,263.03,190.53,234.93,274.50,299.07,210.10,316.27
"OpenArena - Resolution: 1920 x 1080 - Total Frame Time (Milliseconds)",LIB,,10.86,23.25,19.09,14.54,12.64,8.9,13.98,5.74,9.17,3.77,5.27,4.26,3.62,3.38,4.68,3.17
"OpenArena - Resolution: 1920 x 1080 (FPS/Watt)",HIB,,0.90,,0.61,0.50,0.48,0.81,1.00,1.20,0.75,1.77,1.79,1.57,1.57,1.51,1.65,2.61
"OpenArena - System Power Consumption Monitor (Watts)",LIB,,101.34,,86.29,137,162.44,137.6,71.79,143.74,146.5,148.96,106.51,149.59,174.83,197.43,127.07,121.26
"System Power Consumption Monitor - Phoronix Test Suite System Monitoring (Watts)",,,87.24,,86.74,128.2,162.63,130.96,64.68,132.37,154.76,155.56,106.04,153.19,177.56,217.89,127.64,204.31
"Team Fortress 2 - Resolution: 1920 x 1080 (FPS)",HIB,27.68,56.32,54.52,70.66,77.50,89.83,111.77,79.50,111.60,112.80,119.97,119.60,,120.60,119.37,119.25,121.96
"Team Fortress 2 - Resolution: 1920 x 1080 (FPS/Watt)",HIB,0.39,0.60,,0.85,0.64,0.58,1.07,1.20,1.23,1.09,1.26,1.72,,1.36,1.32,1.59,1.63
"Team Fortress 2 - System Power Consumption Monitor (Watts)",LIB,71.24,93.77,,83.03,120.37,154.7,104.52,66.5,90.59,103.62,95.01,69.58,56.5,88.67,90.58,74.78,74.92
"Tesseract - Resolution: 1920 x 1080 (FPS)",HIB,,18.99,27.34,37.90,40.63,47.28,109.53,52.68,143.62,154.90,193.56,152.10,192.76,165.47,232.66,182.08,245.82
"Tesseract - Resolution: 1920 x 1080 (FPS/Watt)",HIB,,0.22,,0.45,0.32,0.30,0.82,0.79,1.04,0.99,1.34,1.49,1.37,1.04,1.28,1.53,1.58
"Tesseract - System Power Consumption Monitor (Watts)",LIB,,85.61,,84.94,127.27,159.05,133.17,66.49,137.7,156.71,144.06,102.39,140.27,159.86,181.92,119.01,155.88
"Unigine Heaven - Resolution: 1280 x 1024 - Mode: Fullscreen (FPS)",HIB,,2.88,,10.62,12.35,14.58,5.09,3.06,11.41,16.28,53.14,38.69,50.84,63.23,78.94,45.48,99.78
"Unigine Heaven - Resolution: 1280 x 1024 - Mode: Fullscreen (FPS/Watt)",HIB,,0.03,,0.12,0.10,0.09,0.04,0.05,0.09,0.11,0.31,0.33,0.31,0.32,0.33,0.32,0.41
"Unigine Heaven - System Power Consumption Monitor (Watts)",LIB,,83.26,,85.99,124.85,161.69,117.62,61.8,126.84,145.86,172.58,116.1,162.99,196.19,240.24,140.17,242.72
"Unigine Valley - Resolution: 1280 x 1024 - Mode: Fullscreen (FPS)",HIB,,2.35,,12.22,13.32,15.87,26.46,,34.66,42.10,59.06,42.35,58.67,69.40,91.43,51.73,103.29
"Unigine Valley - Resolution: 1280 x 1024 - Mode: Fullscreen (FPS/Watt)",HIB,,0.03,,0.14,0.10,0.09,0.18,,0.22,0.23,0.33,0.35,0.34,0.35,0.36,0.35,0.44
"Unigine Valley - System Power Consumption Monitor (Watts)",LIB,,83,,89.16,127.92,167.2,145.69,43.6,156.92,185.47,180.54,121.03,172.15,200.05,253.37,147.45,233.13
"Xonotic - Resolution: 1920 x 1080 - Effects Quality: High (FPS)",HIB,,56.06,92.79,112.77,144.49,160.48,228.18,145.42,254.32,241.13,253.21,243.71,250.00,259.15,262.80,252.17,259.18
"Xonotic - Resolution: 1920 x 1080 - Effects Quality: High (FPS/Watt)",HIB,,0.62,,1.22,1.00,0.93,1.54,1.87,1.78,1.54,1.82,2.34,1.84,1.69,1.68,2.15,2.78
"Xonotic - System Power Consumption Monitor (Watts)",LIB,,90.36,,92.77,144.96,172.68,147.83,77.72,142.81,156.9,139.26,104.32,135.51,153.68,156.75,117.3,93.37
"Xonotic - Resolution: 1920 x 1080 - Effects Quality: Ultra (FPS)",HIB,,29.20,52.38,76.73,84.02,96.45,152.55,59.65,174.03,195.98,217.18,202.89,212.49,217.01,224.20,211.87,222.37
"Xonotic - Resolution: 1920 x 1080 - Effects Quality: Ultra (FPS/Watt)",HIB,,0.34,,0.85,0.63,0.57,1.05,0.89,1.19,1.19,1.49,1.94,1.53,1.39,1.38,1.76,2.38
"Xonotic - System Power Consumption Monitor (Watts)",LIB,,86.17,,90.12,133.33,169.24,145.53,67.23,146.56,164.15,145.41,104.5,139.28,156.46,162.86,120.17,93.36
"Xonotic - Resolution: 1920 x 1080 - Effects Quality: Ultimate (FPS)",HIB,,19.10,32.38,53.51,54.71,63.91,100.31,32.82,115.92,145.55,175.97,156.19,172.31,175.07,184.55,169.51,182.01
"Xonotic - Resolution: 1920 x 1080 - Effects Quality: Ultimate (FPS/Watt)",HIB,,0.22,,0.60,0.42,0.39,0.70,0.51,0.81,0.87,1.16,1.46,1.20,1.07,1.08,1.36,1.78
"Xonotic - System Power Consumption Monitor (Watts)",LIB,,85.21,,88.97,129.03,164.78,143.83,64.15,143.27,166.55,151.8,106.97,143.84,163.55,171.6,125.09,102.09