Haswell Dota 2 Vulkan Intel Core i7-4790K testing with a Gigabyte Z97-HD3P and Intel Xeon E3-1200 v3/4th Gen Core IGP on Ubuntu 16.10 via the Phoronix Test Suite. Ubuntu 16.10: Processor: Intel Core i7-4790K @ 4.40GHz (8 Cores), Motherboard: Gigabyte Z97-HD3P, Chipset: Intel 4th Gen Core DRAM, Memory: 16384MB, Disk: 120GB OCZ TRION100, Graphics: Intel Xeon E3-1200 v3/4th Gen Core IGP, Audio: Intel Xeon E3-1200 v3/4th, Monitor: DELL P2415Q, Network: Realtek RTL8111/8168/8411 OS: Ubuntu 16.10, Kernel: 4.8.0-22-generic (x86_64), Desktop: Unity 7.5.0, Display Server: X Server 1.18.4, Display Driver: modesetting 1.18.4, OpenGL: 3.3 Mesa 12.0.3, Vulkan: 1.0.21, Compiler: GCC 6.2.0 20161005, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 3840x2160 Mesa Git: Processor: Intel Core i7-4790K @ 4.40GHz (8 Cores), Motherboard: Gigabyte Z97-HD3P, Chipset: Intel 4th Gen Core DRAM, Memory: 16384MB, Disk: 120GB OCZ TRION100, Graphics: Intel Xeon E3-1200 v3/4th Gen Core IGP, Audio: Intel Xeon E3-1200 v3/4th, Monitor: DELL P2415Q, Network: Realtek RTL8111/8168/8411 OS: Ubuntu 16.10, Kernel: 4.8.0-26-generic (x86_64), Desktop: Unity 7.5.0, Display Server: X Server 1.18.4, Display Driver: modesetting 1.18.4, OpenGL: 3.3 Mesa 12.1.0-devel- padoka PPA, Vulkan: 1.0.21, Compiler: GCC 6.2.0 20161005, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 3840x2160 Mesa Git + Linux 4.9: Processor: Intel Core i7-4790K @ 4.40GHz (8 Cores), Motherboard: Gigabyte Z97-HD3P, Chipset: Intel 4th Gen Core DRAM, Memory: 16384MB, Disk: 120GB OCZ TRION100, Graphics: Intel Xeon E3-1200 v3/4th Gen Core IGP, Audio: Intel Xeon E3-1200 v3/4th, Monitor: DELL P2415Q, Network: Realtek RTL8111/8168/8411 OS: Ubuntu 16.10, Kernel: 4.9.0-999-generic (x86_64) 20161019, Desktop: Unity 7.5.0, Display Server: X Server 1.18.4, Display Driver: modesetting 1.18.4, OpenGL: 3.3 Mesa 12.1.0-devel- padoka PPA, Vulkan: 1.0.21, Compiler: GCC 6.2.0 20161005, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 3840x2160 Dota 2 Resolution: 800 x 600 Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better OpenGL: Ubuntu 16.10 ......... 23.10 |======================================= OpenGL: Mesa Git ............. 23.17 |======================================== OpenGL: Mesa Git + Linux 4.9 . 24.00 |========================================= Vulkan: Ubuntu 16.10 ......... 20.63 |=================================== Vulkan: Mesa Git ............. 19.87 |================================== Vulkan: Mesa Git + Linux 4.9 . 20.53 |=================================== Dota 2 CPU Usage (Summary) Monitor - 800 x 600 Percent < Lower Is Better OpenGL: Ubuntu 16.10 ......... MIN: 0.5 AVG: 16.6 MAX: 26.0 OpenGL: Mesa Git ............. MIN: 0.0 AVG: 16.9 MAX: 25.8 OpenGL: Mesa Git + Linux 4.9 . MIN: 0.0 AVG: 17.6 MAX: 23.5 Vulkan: Ubuntu 16.10 ......... MIN: 1.8 AVG: 17.7 MAX: 34.7 Vulkan: Mesa Git ............. MIN: 0.3 AVG: 16.8 MAX: 21.0 Vulkan: Mesa Git + Linux 4.9 . MIN: 0.0 AVG: 17.4 MAX: 21.0 Dota 2 Resolution: 1280 x 1024 Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better OpenGL: Ubuntu 16.10 ......... 15.27 |======================================= OpenGL: Mesa Git ............. 15.40 |======================================== OpenGL: Mesa Git + Linux 4.9 . 15.90 |========================================= Vulkan: Ubuntu 16.10 ......... 12.63 |================================= Vulkan: Mesa Git ............. 12.57 |================================ Vulkan: Mesa Git + Linux 4.9 . 13.00 |================================== Dota 2 CPU Usage (Summary) Monitor - 1280 x 1024 Percent < Lower Is Better OpenGL: Ubuntu 16.10 ......... MIN: 0.3 AVG: 15.3 MAX: 21.7 OpenGL: Mesa Git ............. MIN: 1.0 AVG: 15.5 MAX: 22.7 OpenGL: Mesa Git + Linux 4.9 . MIN: 0.3 AVG: 16.1 MAX: 20.8 Vulkan: Ubuntu 16.10 ......... MIN: 0.5 AVG: 15.0 MAX: 19.6 Vulkan: Mesa Git ............. MIN: 0.3 AVG: 15.6 MAX: 23.6 Vulkan: Mesa Git + Linux 4.9 . MIN: 0.0 AVG: 15.5 MAX: 23.8 Dota 2 Resolution: 1920 x 1080 Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better OpenGL: Ubuntu 16.10 ......... 10.60 |======================================= OpenGL: Mesa Git ............. 10.77 |======================================== OpenGL: Mesa Git + Linux 4.9 . 11.10 |========================================= Vulkan: Ubuntu 16.10 ......... 8.40 |=============================== Vulkan: Mesa Git ............. 8.40 |=============================== Vulkan: Mesa Git + Linux 4.9 . 8.77 |================================ Dota 2 CPU Usage (Summary) Monitor - 1920 x 1080 Percent < Lower Is Better OpenGL: Ubuntu 16.10 ......... MIN: 0.3 AVG: 15.1 MAX: 24.8 OpenGL: Mesa Git ............. MIN: 0.5 AVG: 14.9 MAX: 22.2 OpenGL: Mesa Git + Linux 4.9 . MIN: 0.0 AVG: 14.9 MAX: 27.9 Vulkan: Ubuntu 16.10 ......... MIN: 0.3 AVG: 15.3 MAX: 25.1 Vulkan: Mesa Git ............. MIN: 0.0 AVG: 15.0 MAX: 23.9 Vulkan: Mesa Git + Linux 4.9 . MIN: 0.0 AVG: 15.2 MAX: 23.6 Dota 2 Resolution: 2560 x 1440 - Renderer: OpenGL Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better Ubuntu 16.10 ......... 8.07 |================================================ Mesa Git ............. 8.23 |================================================= Mesa Git + Linux 4.9 . 8.33 |================================================== Dota 2 Resolution: 2560 x 1440 - Renderer: Vulkan Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better Ubuntu 16.10 ......... 5.83 |================================================ Mesa Git ............. 5.83 |================================================ Mesa Git + Linux 4.9 . 6.03 |==================================================