Kaveri Ubuntu 18.04 Mesa Testing AMD A10-7870K testing for a future article on Phoronix.com. Stock - Radeon + Mesa 18.0: Processor: AMD A10-7870K Radeon R7 12 Compute Cores 4C+8G @ 3.90GHz (2 Cores / 4 Threads), Motherboard: ASUS A88XM-E (2001 BIOS), Chipset: AMD Family 15h, Memory: 15360MB, Disk: 525GB SABRENT + 250GB Samsung SSD 850, Graphics: ASUS AMD Radeon R7 1024MB, Audio: AMD Kaveri HDMI/DP, Monitor: VE228, Network: Realtek RTL8111/8168/8411 OS: Ubuntu 18.04, Kernel: 4.15.0-20-generic (x86_64), Desktop: GNOME Shell 3.28.1, Display Driver: modesetting 1.19.6, OpenGL: 4.5 Mesa 18.0.0-rc5 (LLVM 6.0.0), Compiler: GCC 7.3.0, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 1920x1080 AMDGPU + Mesa 18.0: Processor: AMD A10-7870K Radeon R7 12 Compute Cores 4C+8G @ 3.90GHz (2 Cores / 4 Threads), Motherboard: ASUS A88XM-E (2001 BIOS), Chipset: AMD Family 15h, Memory: 15360MB, Disk: 525GB SABRENT + 250GB Samsung SSD 850, Graphics: ASUS AMD Radeon R7 1024MB, Audio: AMD Kaveri HDMI/DP, Monitor: VE228, Network: Realtek RTL8111/8168/8411 OS: Ubuntu 18.04, Kernel: 4.15.0-20-generic (x86_64), Desktop: GNOME Shell 3.28.1, Display Driver: modesetting 1.19.6, OpenGL: 4.5 Mesa 18.0.0-rc5 (LLVM 6.0.0), Compiler: GCC 7.3.0, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 1920x1080 AMDGPU + Mesa 18.2: Processor: AMD A10-7870K Radeon R7 12 Compute Cores 4C+8G @ 3.90GHz (2 Cores / 4 Threads), Motherboard: ASUS A88XM-E (2001 BIOS), Chipset: AMD Family 15h, Memory: 15360MB, Disk: 525GB SABRENT + 250GB Samsung SSD 850, Graphics: ASUS AMD Radeon R7 1024MB, Audio: AMD Kaveri HDMI/DP, Monitor: VE228, Network: Realtek RTL8111/8168/8411 OS: Ubuntu 18.04, Kernel: 4.15.0-20-generic (x86_64), Desktop: GNOME Shell 3.28.1, Display Driver: modesetting 1.19.6, OpenGL: 4.5 Mesa 18.2.0-devel (LLVM 6.0.0), Compiler: GCC 7.3.0, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 1920x1080 BioShock Infinite Resolution: 1920 x 1080 - Effects Quality: Medium Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better Stock - Radeon + Mesa 18.0 . 14.20 |============================== AMDGPU + Mesa 18.0 ......... 18.10 |====================================== AMDGPU + Mesa 18.2 ......... 20.39 |=========================================== Deus Ex: Mankind Divided Preset: 1920 x 1080 - Low Quality Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better Stock - Radeon + Mesa 18.0 . 9.60 |=============================== AMDGPU + Mesa 18.0 ......... 11.70 |====================================== AMDGPU + Mesa 18.2 ......... 13.20 |=========================================== DiRT Rally Resolution: 1920 x 1080 - Graphics Preset: Medium Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better Stock - Radeon + Mesa 18.0 . 20.40 |===================== AMDGPU + Mesa 18.0 ......... 32.53 |================================= AMDGPU + Mesa 18.2 ......... 41.80 |=========================================== Dota 2 Resolution: 1920 x 1080 - Renderer: OpenGL Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better Stock - Radeon + Mesa 18.0 . 21.00 |================================ AMDGPU + Mesa 18.0 ......... 23.70 |==================================== AMDGPU + Mesa 18.2 ......... 28.20 |=========================================== Dawn of War III Resolution: 1920 x 1080 - Graphics Preset: Low - Renderer: OpenGL Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better Stock - Radeon + Mesa 18.0 . 10.74 |================================== AMDGPU + Mesa 18.0 ......... 12.27 |======================================= AMDGPU + Mesa 18.2 ......... 13.43 |=========================================== Metro: Last Light Redux Resolution: 1920 x 1080 Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better Stock - Radeon + Mesa 18.0 . 13.63 |======================= AMDGPU + Mesa 18.0 ......... 23.10 |======================================= AMDGPU + Mesa 18.2 ......... 25.79 |=========================================== OpenArena 0.8.8 Resolution: 1920 x 1080 Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better Stock - Radeon + Mesa 18.0 . 48.50 |================================= AMDGPU + Mesa 18.0 ......... 52.40 |==================================== AMDGPU + Mesa 18.2 ......... 62.87 |=========================================== OpenArena 0.8.8 Resolution: 1920 x 1080 - Total Frame Time Milliseconds < Lower Is Better Stock - Radeon + Mesa 18.0 . MIN: 3.0 AVG: 20.2 MAX: 60.0 AMDGPU + Mesa 18.0 ......... MIN: 3.0 AVG: 19.0 MAX: 68.0 AMDGPU + Mesa 18.2 ......... MIN: 3.0 AVG: 15.8 MAX: 63.0 Tesseract 2014-05-12 Resolution: 1920 x 1080 Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better Stock - Radeon + Mesa 18.0 . 67.47 |============================== AMDGPU + Mesa 18.0 ......... 83.00 |===================================== AMDGPU + Mesa 18.2 ......... 96.88 |=========================================== Team Fortress 2 Resolution: 1920 x 1080 Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better Stock - Radeon + Mesa 18.0 . 15.72 |========================================== AMDGPU + Mesa 18.0 ......... 16.22 |=========================================== AMDGPU + Mesa 18.2 ......... 16.23 |=========================================== Unigine Superposition 1.0 Resolution: 1920 x 1080 - Mode: Fullscreen - Quality: Low Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better Stock - Radeon + Mesa 18.0 . 8.30 |====================== AMDGPU + Mesa 18.0 ......... 11.50 |=============================== AMDGPU + Mesa 18.2 ......... 15.90 |=========================================== Xonotic 0.8.2 Resolution: 1920 x 1080 - Effects Quality: Low Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better Stock - Radeon + Mesa 18.0 . 191.03 |========================================= AMDGPU + Mesa 18.0 ......... 185.03 |======================================= AMDGPU + Mesa 18.2 ......... 197.69 |========================================== Xonotic 0.8.2 Resolution: 1920 x 1080 - Effects Quality: High Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better Stock - Radeon + Mesa 18.0 . 120.57 |==================================== AMDGPU + Mesa 18.0 ......... 125.17 |===================================== AMDGPU + Mesa 18.2 ......... 140.55 |========================================== Xonotic 0.8.2 Resolution: 1920 x 1080 - Effects Quality: Ultra Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better Stock - Radeon + Mesa 18.0 . 104.25 |==================================== AMDGPU + Mesa 18.0 ......... 109.20 |====================================== AMDGPU + Mesa 18.2 ......... 121.17 |========================================== Xonotic 0.8.2 Resolution: 1920 x 1080 - Effects Quality: Ultimate Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better Stock - Radeon + Mesa 18.0 . 75.49 |==================================== AMDGPU + Mesa 18.0 ......... 79.34 |====================================== AMDGPU + Mesa 18.2 ......... 89.22 |=========================================== GLmark2 276 Resolution: 1920 x 1080 Score > Higher Is Better Stock - Radeon + Mesa 18.0 . 574 |=============================== AMDGPU + Mesa 18.0 ......... 583 |================================ AMDGPU + Mesa 18.2 ......... 830 |============================================= X-Plane 11 Quality: Low - Resolution: 1920 x 1080 Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better Stock - Radeon + Mesa 18.0 . 26.89 |=============================== AMDGPU + Mesa 18.0 ......... 31.60 |==================================== AMDGPU + Mesa 18.2 ......... 37.85 |=========================================== GpuTest 0.7.0 Test: Triangle - Resolution: 1920 x 1080 - Mode: Fullscreen Points > Higher Is Better Stock - Radeon + Mesa 18.0 . 80868 |====================== AMDGPU + Mesa 18.0 ......... 84861 |======================= AMDGPU + Mesa 18.2 ......... 156569 |==========================================