test
Intel Core i7 930 testing with a Alienware 0XDJ4C and Sapphire AMD Radeon HD 5870 1024MB on Arch rolling via the Phoronix Test Suite.


test: 

	Processor: AMD Phenom II X6 1090T @ 3.70GHz (6 Cores), Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-790FXTA-UD5, Chipset: AMD RD790 + SB7x0/SB8x0/SB9x0, Memory: 16384MB, Disk: 240GB TOSHIBA-TR150, Graphics: AMD Radeon HD 7950/8950 OEM / R9 280 3072MB, Audio: Realtek ALC889, Monitor: DM2350D + W2343, Network: Realtek RTL8111/8168/8411 + Qualcomm Atheros AR5416 Wireless

	OS: openSUSE 20170303, Kernel: 4.10.1-1-default (x86_64), Desktop: KDE Frameworks 5, Display Server: X Server 1.19.1, Display Driver: modesetting 1.19.1, OpenGL: 4.5 Mesa 17.0.0 Gallium 0.4 (LLVM 3.9.1), Vulkan: 1.0.3, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 3840x1152

teset: 

	Processor: AMD Phenom II X6 1090T @ 3.70GHz (6 Cores), Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-790FXTA-UD5, Chipset: AMD RD790 + SB7x0/SB8x0/SB9x0, Memory: 16384MB, Disk: 240GB TOSHIBA-TR150, Graphics: AMD Radeon HD 7950/8950 OEM / R9 280 3072MB, Audio: Realtek ALC889, Monitor: DM2350D + W2343, Network: Realtek RTL8111/8168/8411 + Qualcomm Atheros AR5416 Wireless

	OS: openSUSE 20170303, Kernel: 4.10.1-1-default (x86_64), Desktop: KDE Frameworks 5, Display Server: X Server 1.19.1, Display Driver: radeon 7.8.0, OpenGL: 4.5 Mesa 17.0.0 Gallium 0.4 (LLVM 3.9.1), Vulkan: 1.0.3, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 3840x1152

hd5870: 

	Processor: Intel Core i7 930 @ 3.16GHz (8 Cores), Motherboard: Alienware 0XDJ4C, Chipset: Intel 5520/5500/X58 + ICH10R, Memory: 12288MB, Disk: 2 x 500GB Western Digital WD5000AAKS-0 + 1000GB SAMSUNG HD103UJ, Graphics: Sapphire AMD Radeon HD 5870 1024MB, Audio: Realtek ALC1200, Monitor: P225HQ, Network: Broadcom Limited NetLink BCM5784M Gigabit PCIe

	OS: Arch rolling, Kernel: 4.9.11-1-ARCH (x86_64), Desktop: GNOME Shell 3.22.3, Display Server: Wayland, Display Driver: modesetting 1.18.4, OpenGL: 4.1 Mesa 17.0.1 Gallium 0.4 (LLVM 3.9.1), OpenCL: OpenCL 1.1 Mesa 17.0.1, Vulkan: 1.0.3, Compiler: GCC 6.3.1 20170109 + Clang 3.9.1, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 1920x1080


Gzip Compression
2GB File Compression
Seconds < Lower Is Better
teset .. 15.53 |===========================================================
hd5870 . 16.46 |===============================================================


Dota 2
Resolution: 1920 x 1080 - Renderer: OpenGL
Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better
test ... 42.13 |==============================================
hd5870 . 58.27 |===============================================================