AMDGPU vs. Radeon DRM - RadeonSI OpenGL AMDGPU / Radeon DRM driver benchmarks by Michael Larabel for a future article. Radeon: R9 270X: Processor: Intel Core i9-9900K @ 5.00GHz (8 Cores / 16 Threads), Motherboard: ASUS PRIME Z390-A (0802 BIOS), Chipset: Intel Cannon Lake PCH Shared SRAM, Memory: 16384MB, Disk: Samsung SSD 970 EVO 250GB + 2000GB SABRENT, Graphics: Gigabyte AMD Radeon R7 370 R9 270X/370X 2GB, Audio: Realtek ALC1220, Monitor: DELL P2415Q, Network: Intel I219-V OS: Ubuntu 18.10, Kernel: 5.0.0-999-generic (x86_64) 20190221, Desktop: GNOME Shell 3.30.1, Display Server: X Server 1.20.1, Display Driver: modesetting 1.20.1, OpenGL: 4.5 Mesa 19.1.0-devel padoka PPA (LLVM 9.0.0), Compiler: GCC 8.2.0, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 3840x2160 AMDGPU: R9 270X: Processor: Intel Core i9-9900K @ 5.00GHz (8 Cores / 16 Threads), Motherboard: ASUS PRIME Z390-A (0802 BIOS), Chipset: Intel Cannon Lake PCH Shared SRAM, Memory: 16384MB, Disk: Samsung SSD 970 EVO 250GB + 2000GB SABRENT, Graphics: Gigabyte AMD Radeon R7 370 R9 270X/370X 2GB, Audio: Realtek ALC1220, Monitor: DELL P2415Q, Network: Intel I219-V OS: Ubuntu 18.10, Kernel: 5.0.0-999-generic (x86_64) 20190221, Desktop: GNOME Shell 3.30.1, Display Server: X Server 1.20.1, Display Driver: modesetting 1.20.1, OpenGL: 4.5 Mesa 19.1.0-devel padoka PPA (LLVM 9.0.0), Vulkan: 1.1.90, Compiler: GCC 8.2.0, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 3840x2160 Radeon: HD 7950: Processor: Intel Core i9-9900K @ 5.00GHz (8 Cores / 16 Threads), Motherboard: ASUS PRIME Z390-A (0802 BIOS), Chipset: Intel Cannon Lake PCH Shared SRAM, Memory: 16384MB, Disk: Samsung SSD 970 EVO 250GB + 2000GB SABRENT, Graphics: XFX AMD Radeon HD 7950/8950 OEM / R9 280 3GB, Audio: Realtek ALC1220, Monitor: DELL P2415Q, Network: Intel I219-V OS: Ubuntu 18.10, Kernel: 5.0.0-999-generic (x86_64) 20190221, Desktop: GNOME Shell 3.30.1, Display Server: X Server 1.20.1, Display Driver: modesetting 1.20.1, OpenGL: 4.5 Mesa 19.1.0-devel padoka PPA (LLVM 9.0.0), Compiler: GCC 8.2.0, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 3840x2160 AMDGPU: HD 7950: Processor: Intel Core i9-9900K @ 5.00GHz (8 Cores / 16 Threads), Motherboard: ASUS PRIME Z390-A (0802 BIOS), Chipset: Intel Cannon Lake PCH Shared SRAM, Memory: 16384MB, Disk: Samsung SSD 970 EVO 250GB + 2000GB SABRENT, Graphics: XFX AMD Radeon HD 7950/8950 OEM / R9 280 3GB, Audio: Realtek ALC1220, Monitor: DELL P2415Q, Network: Intel I219-V OS: Ubuntu 18.10, Kernel: 5.0.0-999-generic (x86_64) 20190221, Desktop: GNOME Shell 3.30.1, Display Server: X Server 1.20.1, Display Driver: modesetting 1.20.1, OpenGL: 4.5 Mesa 19.1.0-devel padoka PPA (LLVM 9.0.0), Vulkan: 1.1.90, Compiler: GCC 8.2.0, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 3840x2160 AMDGPU: R9 290: Processor: Intel Core i9-9900K @ 5.00GHz (8 Cores / 16 Threads), Motherboard: ASUS PRIME Z390-A (0802 BIOS), Chipset: Intel Cannon Lake PCH Shared SRAM, Memory: 16384MB, Disk: Samsung SSD 970 EVO 250GB + 2000GB SABRENT, Graphics: XFX AMD Radeon R9 290/390 4GB (947/1250MHz), Audio: Realtek ALC1220, Monitor: Acer B286HK, Network: Intel I219-V OS: Ubuntu 18.10, Kernel: 5.0.0-999-generic (x86_64) 20190221, Desktop: GNOME Shell 3.30.1, Display Server: X Server 1.20.1, Display Driver: modesetting 1.20.1, OpenGL: 4.5 Mesa 19.1.0-devel padoka PPA (LLVM 9.0.0), Vulkan: 1.1.90, Compiler: GCC 8.2.0, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 3840x2160 BioShock Infinite Resolution: 1920 x 1080 - Effects Quality: Ultra Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better Radeon: R9 270X . 148 |========================================== AMDGPU: R9 270X . 150 |========================================== Radeon: HD 7950 . 149 |========================================== AMDGPU: HD 7950 . 155 |============================================ AMDGPU: R9 290 .. 198 |======================================================== BioShock Infinite Resolution: 2560 x 1440 - Effects Quality: Ultra Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better Radeon: R9 270X . 96.67 |=================================== AMDGPU: R9 270X . 95.51 |================================== Radeon: HD 7950 . 103.84 |===================================== AMDGPU: HD 7950 . 104.87 |====================================== AMDGPU: R9 290 .. 147.00 |===================================================== Deus Ex: Mankind Divided Preset: 2560 x 1440 - High Quality Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better Radeon: R9 270X . 17.70 |================================== AMDGPU: R9 270X . 17.37 |================================= Radeon: HD 7950 . 18.70 |=================================== AMDGPU: HD 7950 . 19.03 |==================================== AMDGPU: R9 290 .. 28.50 |====================================================== Deus Ex: Mankind Divided Preset: 1920 x 1080 - Ultra Quality Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better Radeon: R9 270X . 17.00 |=============================== AMDGPU: R9 270X . 17.50 |================================ Radeon: HD 7950 . 19.27 |=================================== AMDGPU: HD 7950 . 18.73 |================================== AMDGPU: R9 290 .. 29.90 |====================================================== Dota 2 Resolution: 1920 x 1080 - Renderer: OpenGL Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better Radeon: R9 270X . 88.77 |================================= AMDGPU: R9 270X . 95.10 |==================================== Radeon: HD 7950 . 88.03 |================================= AMDGPU: HD 7950 . 97.03 |==================================== AMDGPU: R9 290 .. 141.40 |===================================================== Dota 2 Resolution: 3840 x 2160 - Renderer: OpenGL Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better Radeon: R9 270X . 33.93 |================================ AMDGPU: R9 270X . 35.17 |================================= Radeon: HD 7950 . 36.63 |================================== AMDGPU: HD 7950 . 38.67 |==================================== AMDGPU: R9 290 .. 57.37 |====================================================== Dawn of War III Resolution: 1920 x 1080 - Graphics Preset: Ultra - Renderer: OpenGL Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better Radeon: R9 270X . 39.62 |================================ AMDGPU: R9 270X . 39.89 |================================ Radeon: HD 7950 . 42.02 |================================== AMDGPU: HD 7950 . 43.53 |=================================== AMDGPU: R9 290 .. 66.64 |====================================================== HITMAN Resolution: 1920 x 1080 - Quality Level: Ultra Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better Radeon: R9 270X . 42.04 |================================ AMDGPU: R9 270X . 43.86 |================================= Radeon: HD 7950 . 40.48 |=============================== AMDGPU: HD 7950 . 42.00 |================================ AMDGPU: R9 290 .. 71.12 |====================================================== HITMAN Resolution: 1920 x 1080 - Quality Level: Ultra - Total Frame Time Milliseconds < Lower Is Better Radeon: R9 270X . MIN: 4 AVG: 24 MAX: 200 AMDGPU: R9 270X . MIN: 3 AVG: 23 MAX: 66 Radeon: HD 7950 . MIN: 3 AVG: 25 MAX: 93 AMDGPU: HD 7950 . MIN: 3 AVG: 24 MAX: 101 AMDGPU: R9 290 .. MIN: 3 AVG: 14 MAX: 55 OpenArena 0.8.8 Resolution: 2560 x 1440 Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better Radeon: R9 270X . 161 |====================================== AMDGPU: R9 270X . 169 |======================================== Radeon: HD 7950 . 185 |============================================ AMDGPU: HD 7950 . 200 |=============================================== AMDGPU: R9 290 .. 237 |======================================================== OpenArena 0.8.8 Resolution: 2560 x 1440 - Total Frame Time Milliseconds < Lower Is Better Radeon: R9 270X . MIN: 1.0 AVG: 6.2 MAX: 29.0 AMDGPU: R9 270X . MIN: 1.0 AVG: 5.9 MAX: 19.0 Radeon: HD 7950 . MIN: 1.0 AVG: 5.4 MAX: 26.0 AMDGPU: HD 7950 . MIN: 1.0 AVG: 5.0 MAX: 20.0 AMDGPU: R9 290 .. MIN: 1.0 AVG: 4.2 MAX: 20.0 Tesseract 2014-05-12 Resolution: 3840 x 2160 Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better Radeon: R9 270X . 106 |==================================== AMDGPU: R9 270X . 109 |===================================== Radeon: HD 7950 . 118 |======================================== AMDGPU: HD 7950 . 123 |========================================= AMDGPU: R9 290 .. 167 |======================================================== Tomb Raider Resolution: 1920 x 1080 - Quality: Ultra Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better Radeon: R9 270X . 59.47 |================================== AMDGPU: R9 270X . 60.77 |=================================== Radeon: HD 7950 . 63.10 |==================================== AMDGPU: HD 7950 . 65.37 |===================================== AMDGPU: R9 290 .. 94.83 |====================================================== Xonotic 0.8.2 Resolution: 3840 x 2160 - Effects Quality: Ultra Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better Radeon: R9 270X . 164 |====================================== AMDGPU: R9 270X . 167 |======================================= Radeon: HD 7950 . 174 |======================================== AMDGPU: HD 7950 . 186 |=========================================== AMDGPU: R9 290 .. 241 |======================================================== Xonotic 0.8.2 Resolution: 3840 x 2160 - Effects Quality: Ultimate Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better Radeon: R9 270X . 113 |===================================== AMDGPU: R9 270X . 115 |====================================== Radeon: HD 7950 . 119 |======================================= AMDGPU: HD 7950 . 125 |========================================= AMDGPU: R9 290 .. 171 |======================================================== ParaView 5.4.1 Test: Wavelet Volume - Resolution: 1920 x 1080 Frames / Sec > Higher Is Better Radeon: R9 270X . 142 |===================================== AMDGPU: R9 270X . 145 |===================================== Radeon: HD 7950 . 149 |====================================== AMDGPU: HD 7950 . 154 |======================================== AMDGPU: R9 290 .. 217 |======================================================== ParaView 5.4.1 Test: Wavelet Volume - Resolution: 1920 x 1080 MiVoxels / Sec > Higher Is Better Radeon: R9 270X . 2279 |==================================== AMDGPU: R9 270X . 2317 |===================================== Radeon: HD 7950 . 2391 |====================================== AMDGPU: HD 7950 . 2470 |======================================= AMDGPU: R9 290 .. 3476 |======================================================= ParaView 5.4.1 Test: Wavelet Contour - Resolution: 1920 x 1080 Frames / Sec > Higher Is Better Radeon: R9 270X . 102.19 |============================================== AMDGPU: R9 270X . 98.47 |============================================ Radeon: HD 7950 . 88.03 |======================================== AMDGPU: HD 7950 . 87.51 |======================================= AMDGPU: R9 290 .. 117.86 |===================================================== ParaView 5.4.1 Test: Wavelet Contour - Resolution: 1920 x 1080 MiPolys / Sec > Higher Is Better Radeon: R9 270X . 1065 |================================================ AMDGPU: R9 270X . 1026 |============================================== Radeon: HD 7950 . 917 |========================================= AMDGPU: HD 7950 . 912 |========================================= AMDGPU: R9 290 .. 1228 |======================================================= Unigine Heaven 4.0 Resolution: 1920 x 1080 - Mode: Fullscreen - Renderer: OpenGL Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better Radeon: R9 270X . 35.43 |============================= AMDGPU: R9 270X . 37.23 |============================== Radeon: HD 7950 . 40.18 |================================= AMDGPU: HD 7950 . 42.37 |=================================== AMDGPU: R9 290 .. 66.10 |======================================================