13-way Dota 2 NVIDIA OpenGL vs. Vulkan On Ubuntu Linux Intel Xeon E3-1280 v5 testing with a MSI C236A WORKSTATION (MS-7998) v1.0 and NVIDIA GeForce GTX 760 2048MB on Ubuntu 16.04 via the Phoronix Test Suite. GeForce GTX 680: 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: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 680 2048MB (1006/3004MHz), Audio: Realtek ALC1150, 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: NVIDIA 375.10, OpenGL: 4.5.0, Vulkan: 1.0.8, Compiler: GCC 5.4.0 20160609 + LLVM 3.8.0 + CUDA 8.0, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 3840x2160 GeForce GTX 760: 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: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 760 2048MB (980/3004MHz), Audio: Realtek ALC1150, 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: NVIDIA 375.10, OpenGL: 4.5.0, Vulkan: 1.0.8, Compiler: GCC 5.4.0 20160609 + LLVM 3.8.0 + CUDA 8.0, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 3840x2160 GeForce GTX 780 Ti: 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: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 780 Ti 3072MB (875/3500MHz), Audio: Realtek ALC1150, 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: NVIDIA 375.10, OpenGL: 4.5.0, Vulkan: 1.0.8, Compiler: GCC 5.4.0 20160609 + LLVM 3.8.0 + CUDA 8.0, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 3840x2160 GeForce GTX 950: 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: eVGA NVIDIA GeForce GTX 950 2048MB (1202/3304MHz), Audio: Realtek ALC1150, 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: NVIDIA 375.10, OpenGL: 4.5.0, Vulkan: 1.0.8, Compiler: GCC 5.4.0 20160609 + LLVM 3.8.0 + CUDA 8.0, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 3840x2160 GeForce GTX 960: 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: eVGA NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960 2048MB (1277/3505MHz), Audio: Realtek ALC1150, 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: NVIDIA 375.10, OpenGL: 4.5.0, Vulkan: 1.0.8, Compiler: GCC 5.4.0 20160609 + LLVM 3.8.0 + CUDA 8.0, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 3840x2160 GeForce GTX 970: 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: eVGA NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970 4096MB (1163/3505MHz), Audio: Realtek ALC1150, 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: NVIDIA 375.10, OpenGL: 4.5.0, Vulkan: 1.0.8, Compiler: GCC 5.4.0 20160609 + LLVM 3.8.0 + CUDA 8.0, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 3840x2160 GeForce GTX 980: 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: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 4096MB (1126/3505MHz), Audio: Realtek ALC1150, 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: NVIDIA 375.10, OpenGL: 4.5.0, Vulkan: 1.0.8, Compiler: GCC 5.4.0 20160609 + LLVM 3.8.0 + CUDA 8.0, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 3840x2160 GeForce GTX 980 Ti: 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: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 Ti 6144MB (999/3505MHz), Audio: Realtek ALC1150, 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: NVIDIA 375.10, OpenGL: 4.5.0, Vulkan: 1.0.8, Compiler: GCC 5.4.0 20160609 + LLVM 3.8.0 + CUDA 8.0, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 3840x2160 GeForce GTX 1050: 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: Zotac NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 2048MB (53/3504MHz), Audio: Realtek ALC1150, 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: NVIDIA 375.10, OpenGL: 4.5.0, Vulkan: 1.0.8, Compiler: GCC 5.4.0 20160609 + LLVM 3.8.0 + CUDA 8.0, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 3840x2160 GeForce GTX 1050 Ti: 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: eVGA NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 Ti 4096MB (408/3504MHz), Audio: Realtek ALC1150, 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: NVIDIA 375.10, OpenGL: 4.5.0, Vulkan: 1.0.8, Compiler: GCC 5.4.0 20160609 + LLVM 3.8.0 + CUDA 8.0, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 3840x2160 GeForce GTX 1060: 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: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 6GB 6144MB (962/4006MHz), Audio: Realtek ALC1150, 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: NVIDIA 375.10, OpenGL: 4.5.0, Vulkan: 1.0.8, Compiler: GCC 5.4.0 20160609 + LLVM 3.8.0 + CUDA 8.0, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 3840x2160 GeForce GTX 1070: 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: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070 8192MB (1505/4006MHz), Audio: Realtek ALC1150, 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: NVIDIA 375.10, OpenGL: 4.5.0, Vulkan: 1.0.8, Compiler: GCC 5.4.0 20160609 + LLVM 3.8.0 + CUDA 8.0, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 3840x2160 GeForce GTX 1080: 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: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 8192MB (1616/5005MHz), Audio: Realtek ALC1150, 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: NVIDIA 375.10, OpenGL: 4.5.0, Vulkan: 1.0.8, Compiler: GCC 5.4.0 20160609 + LLVM 3.8.0 + CUDA 8.0, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 3840x2160 Dota 2 Resolution: 800 x 600 Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better OpenGL: GTX 680 ..... 102.23 |========================================== OpenGL: GTX 760 ..... 102.93 |========================================== OpenGL: GTX 780 Ti .. 102.70 |========================================== OpenGL: GTX 950 ..... 103.40 |========================================== OpenGL: GTX 960 ..... 102.90 |========================================== OpenGL: GTX 970 ..... 103.37 |========================================== OpenGL: GTX 980 ..... 102.90 |========================================== OpenGL: GTX 980 Ti .. 103.23 |========================================== OpenGL: GTX 1050 .... 102.97 |========================================== OpenGL: GTX 1050 Ti . 102.20 |========================================== OpenGL: GTX 1060 .... 102.80 |========================================== OpenGL: GTX 1070 .... 102.63 |========================================== OpenGL: GTX 1080 .... 103.47 |========================================== Vulkan: GTX 680 ..... 119.03 |================================================= Vulkan: GTX 760 ..... 119.67 |================================================= Vulkan: GTX 780 Ti .. 119.50 |================================================= Vulkan: GTX 950 ..... 119.73 |================================================= Vulkan: GTX 960 ..... 119.20 |================================================= Vulkan: GTX 970 ..... 119.50 |================================================= Vulkan: GTX 980 ..... 119.07 |================================================= Vulkan: GTX 980 Ti .. 118.80 |================================================= Vulkan: GTX 1050 .... 119.47 |================================================= Vulkan: GTX 1050 Ti . 119.27 |================================================= Vulkan: GTX 1060 .... 118.83 |================================================= Vulkan: GTX 1070 .... 119.00 |================================================= Vulkan: GTX 1080 .... 118.87 |================================================= Dota 2 Resolution: 1920 x 1080 Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better OpenGL: GTX 680 ..... 101.20 |========================================== OpenGL: GTX 760 ..... 100.83 |========================================== OpenGL: GTX 780 Ti .. 101.23 |========================================== OpenGL: GTX 950 ..... 101.07 |========================================== OpenGL: GTX 960 ..... 101.00 |========================================== OpenGL: GTX 970 ..... 100.83 |========================================== OpenGL: GTX 980 ..... 101.17 |========================================== OpenGL: GTX 980 Ti .. 100.97 |========================================== OpenGL: GTX 1050 .... 100.87 |========================================== OpenGL: GTX 1050 Ti . 100.57 |========================================== OpenGL: GTX 1060 .... 101.13 |========================================== OpenGL: GTX 1070 .... 100.97 |========================================== OpenGL: GTX 1080 .... 101.00 |========================================== Vulkan: GTX 680 ..... 114.80 |=============================================== Vulkan: GTX 760 ..... 108.53 |============================================= Vulkan: GTX 780 Ti .. 117.93 |================================================= Vulkan: GTX 950 ..... 110.47 |============================================== Vulkan: GTX 960 ..... 115.77 |================================================ Vulkan: GTX 970 ..... 118.20 |================================================= Vulkan: GTX 980 ..... 118.67 |================================================= Vulkan: GTX 980 Ti .. 117.03 |================================================ Vulkan: GTX 1050 .... 111.20 |============================================== Vulkan: GTX 1050 Ti . 117.27 |================================================ Vulkan: GTX 1060 .... 118.53 |================================================= Vulkan: GTX 1070 .... 117.83 |================================================= Vulkan: GTX 1080 .... 116.83 |================================================ Dota 2 Resolution: 3840 x 2160 Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better OpenGL: GTX 680 ..... 52.73 |======================= OpenGL: GTX 760 ..... 46.00 |==================== OpenGL: GTX 780 Ti .. 82.73 |==================================== OpenGL: GTX 950 ..... 48.53 |===================== OpenGL: GTX 960 ..... 56.27 |======================== OpenGL: GTX 970 ..... 84.70 |==================================== OpenGL: GTX 980 ..... 92.87 |======================================== OpenGL: GTX 980 Ti .. 101.60 |============================================ OpenGL: GTX 1050 .... 48.67 |===================== OpenGL: GTX 1050 Ti . 55.57 |======================== OpenGL: GTX 1060 .... 92.77 |======================================== OpenGL: GTX 1070 .... 101.07 |============================================ OpenGL: GTX 1080 .... 101.87 |============================================ Vulkan: GTX 680 ..... 47.17 |==================== Vulkan: GTX 760 ..... 42.50 |================== Vulkan: GTX 780 Ti .. 68.60 |============================== Vulkan: GTX 950 ..... 43.93 |=================== Vulkan: GTX 960 ..... 49.53 |===================== Vulkan: GTX 970 ..... 72.50 |=============================== Vulkan: GTX 980 ..... 79.63 |================================== Vulkan: GTX 980 Ti .. 91.70 |======================================= Vulkan: GTX 1050 .... 45.33 |==================== Vulkan: GTX 1050 Ti . 51.30 |====================== Vulkan: GTX 1060 .... 80.97 |=================================== Vulkan: GTX 1070 .... 106.33 |============================================== Vulkan: GTX 1080 .... 113.80 |=================================================