Linux 4.12 + Mesa 17.2-dev On Ubuntu 17.04 AMD Ryzen 7 1800X Eight-Core testing with a MSI X370 XPOWER GAMING TITANIUM (MS-7A31) v1.0 and Sapphire AMD Radeon R9 FURY for a future article on Phoronix. Ubuntu 17.04 - Linux 4.10 + Mesa 17.0.3: Processor: AMD Ryzen 7 1800X Eight-Core @ 3.60GHz (16 Cores), Motherboard: MSI X370 XPOWER GAMING TITANIUM (MS-7A31) v1.0, Chipset: AMD Device 1450, Memory: 16384MB, Disk: 525GB Crucial_CT525MX3 + 256GB INTEL SSDPEKKW256G7, Graphics: Sapphire AMD Radeon R9 FURY / NANO 4096MB, Audio: AMD Fiji HDMI/DP, Monitor: G237HL, Network: Intel I211 Gigabit Connection OS: Ubuntu 17.04, Kernel: 4.10.0-21-generic (x86_64), Desktop: Unity 7.5.0, Display Server: X Server 1.19.3, Display Driver: modesetting 1.19.3, OpenGL: 4.5 Mesa 17.0.3 Gallium 0.4 (LLVM 4.0.0), Vulkan: 1.0.42, Compiler: GCC 6.3.0 20170406, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 1920x1080 Linux 4.10 + Mesa 17.2-dev: Processor: AMD Ryzen 7 1800X Eight-Core @ 3.60GHz (16 Cores), Motherboard: MSI X370 XPOWER GAMING TITANIUM (MS-7A31) v1.0, Chipset: AMD Device 1450, Memory: 16384MB, Disk: 525GB Crucial_CT525MX3 + 256GB INTEL SSDPEKKW256G7, Graphics: Sapphire AMD Radeon R9 FURY / NANO 4096MB, Audio: AMD Fiji HDMI/DP, Monitor: G237HL, Network: Intel I211 Gigabit Connection OS: Ubuntu 17.04, Kernel: 4.10.0-21-generic (x86_64), Desktop: Unity 7.5.0, Display Server: X Server 1.19.3, Display Driver: modesetting 1.19.3, OpenGL: 4.5 Mesa 17.2.0-devel- padoka PPA Gallium 0.4 (LLVM 5.0.0), Vulkan: 1.0.42, Compiler: GCC 6.3.0 20170406, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 1920x1080 Linux 4.11 + Mesa 17.2-dev: Processor: AMD Ryzen 7 1800X Eight-Core @ 3.60GHz (16 Cores), Motherboard: MSI X370 XPOWER GAMING TITANIUM (MS-7A31) v1.0, Chipset: AMD Device 1450, Memory: 16384MB, Disk: 525GB Crucial_CT525MX3 + 256GB INTEL SSDPEKKW256G7, Graphics: Sapphire AMD Radeon R9 FURY / NANO 4096MB, Audio: AMD Fiji HDMI/DP, Monitor: G237HL, Network: Intel I211 Gigabit Connection OS: Ubuntu 17.04, Kernel: 4.11.0-041100-generic (x86_64), Desktop: Unity 7.5.0, Display Server: X Server 1.19.3, Display Driver: modesetting 1.19.3, OpenGL: 4.5 Mesa 17.2.0-devel- padoka PPA Gallium 0.4 (LLVM 5.0.0), Vulkan: 1.0.42, Compiler: GCC 6.3.0 20170406, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 1920x1080 Linux 4.12 + Mesa 17.2-dev: Processor: AMD Ryzen 7 1800X Eight-Core @ 3.60GHz (16 Cores), Motherboard: MSI X370 XPOWER GAMING TITANIUM (MS-7A31) v1.0, Chipset: AMD Device 1450, Memory: 16384MB, Disk: 525GB Crucial_CT525MX3 + 256GB INTEL SSDPEKKW256G7, Graphics: Sapphire AMD Radeon R9 FURY / NANO 4096MB, Audio: AMD Fiji HDMI/DP, Monitor: G237HL, Network: Intel I211 Gigabit Connection OS: Ubuntu 17.04, Kernel: 4.12.0-999-generic (x86_64) 20170515, Desktop: Unity 7.5.0, Display Server: X Server 1.19.3, Display Driver: modesetting 1.19.3, OpenGL: 4.5 Mesa 17.2.0-devel- padoka PPA Gallium 0.4 (LLVM 5.0.0), Vulkan: 1.0.3, Compiler: GCC 6.3.0 20170406, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 1920x1080 BioShock Infinite Resolution: 1920 x 1080 - Effects Quality: Medium Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better Ubuntu 17.04 - Linux 4.10 + Mesa 17.0.3 . 82.58 |========================= Linux 4.10 + Mesa 17.2-dev .............. 95.55 |============================= Linux 4.11 + Mesa 17.2-dev .............. 97.92 |============================== Linux 4.12 + Mesa 17.2-dev .............. 95.88 |============================= Civilization VI Quality: Lowest - Resolution: 1920 x 1080 Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better Ubuntu 17.04 - Linux 4.10 + Mesa 17.0.3 . 20.99 |======================== Linux 4.10 + Mesa 17.2-dev .............. 12.78 |=============== Linux 4.11 + Mesa 17.2-dev .............. 25.62 |============================= Linux 4.12 + Mesa 17.2-dev .............. 26.14 |============================== Civilization VI Quality: Lowest - Resolution: 1920 x 1080 - Total Frame Time Milliseconds < Lower Is Better Ubuntu 17.04 - Linux 4.10 + Mesa 17.0.3 . MIN: 21 AVG: 48 MAX: 428 Linux 4.10 + Mesa 17.2-dev .............. MIN: 88 AVG: 191 MAX: 263 Linux 4.11 + Mesa 17.2-dev .............. MIN: 19 AVG: 39 MAX: 277 Linux 4.12 + Mesa 17.2-dev .............. MIN: 18 AVG: 38 MAX: 216 Counter-Strike: Global Offensive Resolution: 1920 x 1080 Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better Ubuntu 17.04 - Linux 4.10 + Mesa 17.0.3 . 161.06 |========================== Linux 4.10 + Mesa 17.2-dev .............. 112.55 |================== Linux 4.11 + Mesa 17.2-dev .............. 175.85 |============================ Linux 4.12 + Mesa 17.2-dev .............. 180.05 |============================= Dota 2 Resolution: 1920 x 1080 - Renderer: OpenGL Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better Ubuntu 17.04 - Linux 4.10 + Mesa 17.0.3 . 89.87 |======================== Linux 4.10 + Mesa 17.2-dev .............. 55.47 |=============== Linux 4.11 + Mesa 17.2-dev .............. 105.60 |============================= Linux 4.12 + Mesa 17.2-dev .............. 107.23 |============================= Dota 2 Resolution: 1920 x 1080 - Renderer: Vulkan Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better Linux 4.10 + Mesa 17.2-dev . 15.80 |======= Linux 4.11 + Mesa 17.2-dev . 51.97 |====================== Linux 4.12 + Mesa 17.2-dev . 100.07 |========================================== ET: Legacy 2.75 Renderer: Renderer2 - Resolution: 1920 x 1080 Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better Ubuntu 17.04 - Linux 4.10 + Mesa 17.0.3 . 162.17 |========================== Linux 4.10 + Mesa 17.2-dev .............. 154.23 |========================= Linux 4.11 + Mesa 17.2-dev .............. 180.13 |============================= Linux 4.12 + Mesa 17.2-dev .............. 177.60 |============================= Metro: Last Light Redux Resolution: 1920 x 1080 Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better Ubuntu 17.04 - Linux 4.10 + Mesa 17.0.3 . 107.17 |=========================== Linux 4.10 + Mesa 17.2-dev .............. 71.92 |================== Linux 4.11 + Mesa 17.2-dev .............. 116.19 |============================= Linux 4.12 + Mesa 17.2-dev .............. 117.24 |============================= OpenArena 0.8.8 Resolution: 1920 x 1080 Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better Ubuntu 17.04 - Linux 4.10 + Mesa 17.0.3 . 260.10 |========================== Linux 4.10 + Mesa 17.2-dev .............. 186.93 |=================== Linux 4.11 + Mesa 17.2-dev .............. 288.63 |============================= Linux 4.12 + Mesa 17.2-dev .............. 289.43 |============================= OpenArena 0.8.8 Resolution: 1920 x 1080 - Total Frame Time Milliseconds < Lower Is Better Ubuntu 17.04 - Linux 4.10 + Mesa 17.0.3 . MIN: 1.0 AVG: 3.7 MAX: 40.0 Linux 4.10 + Mesa 17.2-dev .............. MIN: 1.0 AVG: 5.2 MAX: 29.0 Linux 4.11 + Mesa 17.2-dev .............. MIN: 1.0 AVG: 3.3 MAX: 28.0 Linux 4.12 + Mesa 17.2-dev .............. MIN: 1.0 AVG: 3.3 MAX: 28.0 Portal Resolution: 1920 x 1080 Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better Ubuntu 17.04 - Linux 4.10 + Mesa 17.0.3 . 625.23 |======================= Linux 4.10 + Mesa 17.2-dev .............. 354.88 |============= Linux 4.11 + Mesa 17.2-dev .............. 770.37 |============================ Linux 4.12 + Mesa 17.2-dev .............. 787.28 |============================= Tesseract 2014-05-12 Resolution: 1920 x 1080 Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better Ubuntu 17.04 - Linux 4.10 + Mesa 17.0.3 . 296.04 |======================== Linux 4.10 + Mesa 17.2-dev .............. 176.70 |============== Linux 4.11 + Mesa 17.2-dev .............. 354.35 |============================= Linux 4.12 + Mesa 17.2-dev .............. 343.13 |============================ Team Fortress 2 Resolution: 1920 x 1080 Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better Ubuntu 17.04 - Linux 4.10 + Mesa 17.0.3 . 110.99 |=========================== Linux 4.10 + Mesa 17.2-dev .............. 116.45 |============================ Linux 4.11 + Mesa 17.2-dev .............. 117.52 |============================ Linux 4.12 + Mesa 17.2-dev .............. 120.17 |============================= Tomb Raider Resolution: 1920 x 1080 - Quality: Normal Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better Ubuntu 17.04 - Linux 4.10 + Mesa 17.0.3 . 150.70 |============================= Linux 4.10 + Mesa 17.2-dev .............. 130.87 |========================= Linux 4.11 + Mesa 17.2-dev .............. 145.03 |============================ Linux 4.12 + Mesa 17.2-dev .............. 149.00 |============================= Unigine Superposition 1.0 Resolution: 1920 x 1080 - Mode: Fullscreen - Quality: Low Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better Ubuntu 17.04 - Linux 4.10 + Mesa 17.0.3 . 82.00 |============================== Linux 4.10 + Mesa 17.2-dev .............. 29.00 |========== Linux 4.11 + Mesa 17.2-dev .............. 82.70 |============================== Linux 4.12 + Mesa 17.2-dev .............. 83.00 |============================== Xonotic 0.8.2 Resolution: 1920 x 1080 - Effects Quality: Low Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better Ubuntu 17.04 - Linux 4.10 + Mesa 17.0.3 . 321.82 |=========================== Linux 4.10 + Mesa 17.2-dev .............. 343.73 |============================= Linux 4.11 + Mesa 17.2-dev .............. 346.22 |============================= Linux 4.12 + Mesa 17.2-dev .............. 349.33 |============================= Xonotic 0.8.2 Resolution: 1920 x 1080 - Effects Quality: Ultimate Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better Ubuntu 17.04 - Linux 4.10 + Mesa 17.0.3 . 194.82 |========================== Linux 4.10 + Mesa 17.2-dev .............. 189.16 |========================= Linux 4.11 + Mesa 17.2-dev .............. 214.36 |============================= Linux 4.12 + Mesa 17.2-dev .............. 216.62 |============================= Deus Ex: Mankind Divided Preset: 1920 x 1080 - High Quality Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better Ubuntu 17.04 - Linux 4.10 + Mesa 17.0.3 . 47.27 |=========================== Linux 4.10 + Mesa 17.2-dev .............. 17.63 |========== Linux 4.11 + Mesa 17.2-dev .............. 51.60 |============================== Linux 4.12 + Mesa 17.2-dev .............. 50.67 |============================= DiRT Rally Resolution: 1920 x 1080 - Graphics Preset: Medium Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better Ubuntu 17.04 - Linux 4.10 + Mesa 17.0.3 . 95.99 |============================= Linux 4.10 + Mesa 17.2-dev .............. 71.12 |====================== Linux 4.11 + Mesa 17.2-dev .............. 97.24 |============================== Linux 4.12 + Mesa 17.2-dev .............. 98.36 |============================== Serious Sam Fusion 2017 Resolution: 1920 x 1080 - Quality: Ultra - Renderer: Vulkan Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better Linux 4.11 + Mesa 17.2-dev . 169.50 |========================================== Linux 4.12 + Mesa 17.2-dev . 170.30 |==========================================