Upgraded Kernel & Mesa Yield A Big Boost For Athlon R3 Graphics

Upgraded Kernel & Mesa Yield A Big Boost For Athlon R3 Graphics: Yesterday I delivered the first Linux benchmarks of the AMD Athlon 5350 with Radeon R3 Graphics. Benchmarks of the socketed Kabini APU are ongoing at Phoronix in a variety of different software and hardware configurations. The tests that have just wrapped up today are checking out the performance when upgrading the Linux kernel and Mesa compared to what's shipped by default in Ubuntu 14.04 LTS.