AMD RX 470 Comparison To Launch
Sapphire Nitro+ Radeon RX 470 Linux benchmarking. Tests by Michael Larabel for a future article.


Launch Day: 

	Processor: Intel Xeon E3-1280 v5 @ 4.00GHz (8 Cores), Motherboard: MSI C236A WORKSTATION (MS-7998) v1.0, Chipset: Intel Skylake, Memory: 16384MB, Disk: Samsung SSD 950 PRO 256GB, Graphics: Sapphire AMD Ellesmere [Polaris10] 4096MB, Audio: Realtek ALC1150, Monitor: Acer B286HK, Network: Intel Connection

	OS: Ubuntu 16.10, Kernel: 4.8.0-040800rc1-generic (x86_64) 20160807, Desktop: Unity 7.5.0, Display Server: X Server 1.18.4, Display Driver: modesetting 1.18.4, OpenGL: 4.3 Mesa 12.1.0-devel- padoka PPA Gallium 0.4, Compiler: GCC 6.1.1 20160805, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 3840x2160

30 October 2016: 

	Processor: Intel Xeon E3-1280 v5 @ 4.00GHz (8 Cores), Motherboard: MSI C236A WORKSTATION (MS-7998) v1.0, Chipset: Intel Sky Lake, Memory: 16384MB, Disk: 256GB INTEL SSDPEKKW256G7, Graphics: Sapphire AMD Radeon RX 470/480 4096MB, Audio: Realtek ALC1150, Monitor: Acer B286HK, Network: Intel Connection

	OS: Ubuntu 16.04, Kernel: 4.8.4-040804-generic (x86_64), Desktop: Unity 7.4.0, Display Server: X Server 1.18.4, Display Driver: modesetting 1.18.4, OpenGL: 4.3 Mesa 13.1.0-devel- padoka PPA Gallium 0.4, Vulkan: 1.0.8, Compiler: GCC 5.4.0 20160609 + LLVM 3.8.0, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 3840x2160


Xonotic 0.8
Resolution: 3840 x 2160 - Effects Quality: Ultimate
Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better
Launch Day ...... 127.89 |==========================================
30 October 2016 . 160.01 |=====================================================


Unigine Valley 1.0
Resolution: 1920 x 1080 - Mode: Fullscreen
Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better
Launch Day ...... 62.11 |===================================================
30 October 2016 . 65.98 |======================================================


GpuTest 0.7.0
Test: Furmark - Resolution: 3840 x 2160 - Mode: Fullscreen
Points > Higher Is Better
Launch Day ...... 1817 |======================================================
30 October 2016 . 1846 |=======================================================


GpuTest 0.7.0
Test: Triangle - Resolution: 3840 x 2160 - Mode: Fullscreen
Points > Higher Is Better
Launch Day ...... 195684 |=====================================================
30 October 2016 . 195881 |=====================================================


Tesseract 2014-05-12
Resolution: 3840 x 2160
Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better
Launch Day ...... 129.74 |=============================================
30 October 2016 . 152.03 |=====================================================


BioShock Infinite
Resolution: 1920 x 1080 - Effects Quality: Ultra
Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better
Launch Day ...... 60.23 |==================================
30 October 2016 . 95.93 |======================================================


Counter-Strike: Global Offensive
Resolution: 3840 x 2160
Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better
Launch Day ...... 95.26 |======================================================
30 October 2016 . 90.21 |===================================================


Dota 2
Resolution: 3840 x 2160 - Renderer: OpenGL
Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better
Launch Day ...... 60.53 |======================================================
30 October 2016 . 58.93 |=====================================================


Metro: Last Light Redux
Phoronix Test Suite v6.6.0m2
Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better
Launch Day ...... 50.42 |=====================================================
30 October 2016 . 51.66 |======================================================