GPU Intel AMD Linux Open-Source Comparison
ubuntu 18.04
Skylake HD Graphics 530
Processor: Intel Core i5-6600K @ 3.50GHz (4 Cores), Motherboard: MSI Z170A GAMING PRO (MS-7984) v1.0, Chipset: Intel Sky Lake, Memory: 15360MB, Disk: 256GB TS256GSSD370S, Graphics: Intel Sky Lake (1150MHz), Audio: Realtek ALC1150, Monitor: DELL P2210H, Network: Intel Connection
OS: Ubuntu 15.04, Kernel: 4.2.0-996-generic (x86_64) 20150825, Desktop: Xfce 4.12, Display Server: X Server 1.17.1, Display Driver: intel 2.99.917, OpenGL: 3.3 Mesa 11.0.0-rc1 (git-ab94875), Compiler: GCC 4.9.2 + LLVM 3.8.0, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 1920x1080
Processor Notes: Scaling Governor: acpi-cpufreq ondemand
Graphics Notes: SNA
Radeon HD 6570
Processor: Intel Core i5-6600K @ 3.50GHz (4 Cores), Motherboard: MSI Z170A GAMING PRO (MS-7984) v1.0, Chipset: Intel Sky Lake, Memory: 16384MB, Disk: 256GB TS256GSSD370S, Graphics: Sapphire AMD Radeon HD 6570/7570/8550 512MB, Audio: Realtek ALC1150, Monitor: DELL P2210H, Network: Intel Connection
OS: Ubuntu 15.04, Kernel: 4.2.0-996-generic (x86_64) 20150825, Desktop: Xfce 4.12, Display Server: X Server 1.17.1, Display Driver: radeon 7.5.99, OpenGL: 3.3 Mesa 11.0.0-rc1 (git-ab94875) Gallium 0.4, Compiler: GCC 4.9.2 + LLVM 3.8.0, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 1920x1080
Processor Notes: Scaling Governor: acpi-cpufreq ondemand
Graphics Notes: EXA
Radeon HD 6870
Changed Graphics to Sapphire AMD Radeon HD 6870 1024MB.
Radeon HD 6950
Changed Graphics to Sapphire AMD Radeon HD 6950 2048MB.
Radeon HD 7950
Processor: Intel Core i5-6600K @ 3.50GHz (4 Cores), Motherboard: MSI Z170A GAMING PRO (MS-7984) v1.0, Chipset: Intel Sky Lake, Memory: 16384MB, Disk: 256GB TS256GSSD370S, Graphics: XFX AMD Radeon HD 7950/8950 OEM / R9 280 3072MB, Audio: Realtek ALC1150, Monitor: DELL P2210H, Network: Intel Connection
OS: Ubuntu 15.04, Kernel: 4.2.0-996-generic (x86_64) 20150825, Desktop: Xfce 4.12, Display Server: X Server 1.17.1, Display Driver: radeon 7.5.99, OpenGL: 4.1 Mesa 11.0.0-rc1 (git-ab94875) Gallium 0.4, Compiler: GCC 4.9.2 + LLVM 3.8.0, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 1920x1080
Processor Notes: Scaling Governor: acpi-cpufreq ondemand
Graphics Notes: GLAMOR
Radeon R9 290
Changed Graphics to XFX AMD Radeon R9 290 4096MB.
Radeon R7 370
Changed Graphics to MSI AMD Radeon R9 270 4096MB.
2018-RX460
Processor: Intel Core i5-6600K @ 3.90GHz (4 Cores), Motherboard: ASRock Z170 Gaming-ITX/ac (P7.10 BIOS), Chipset: Intel Skylake, Memory: 16384MB, Disk: 250GB Samsung SSD 850 + 256GB SAMSUNG SSD SM84 + 120GB Samsung SSD 840 + 4001GB Western Digital WD40EFRX-68W, Graphics: XFX AMD Radeon 4096MB, Audio: Realtek ALC1150, Monitor: Q2770, Network: Intel Connection + Broadcom Limited BCM4352 802.11ac Wireless
OS: Ubuntu 18.04, Kernel: 4.15.0-22-generic (x86_64), Desktop: MATE 1.20.1, Display Driver: modesetting 1.19.6, OpenGL: 4.5 Mesa 18.0.0-rc5 (LLVM 6.0.0), OpenCL: OpenCL 1.1 Mesa 18.0.0-rc5, Compiler: GCC 7.3.0, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 2560x1440
Processor Notes: Scaling Governor: intel_pstate powersave
Graphics Notes: GLAMOR
Security Notes: KPTI + __user pointer sanitization + Full generic retpoline IBPB IBRS_FW Protection
OpenArena
Tesseract
Tesseract is a fork of Cube 2 Sauerbraten with numerous graphics and game-play improvements. Tesseract has been in development since 2012 while its first release happened in May of 2014. Learn more via the OpenBenchmarking.org test page.
Unigine Tropics
Unigine Valley
This test calculates the average frame-rate within the Valley demo for the Unigine engine, released in February 2013. This engine is extremely demanding on the system's graphics card. Unigine Valley relies upon an OpenGL GL3 Core Profile context. Learn more via the OpenBenchmarking.org test page.
Xonotic
This is a benchmark of Xonotic, which is a fork of the DarkPlaces-based Nexuiz game. Development began in March of 2010 on the Xonotic game. Learn more via the OpenBenchmarking.org test page.
GpuTest
GpuTest is a cross-platform OpenGL benchmark developed at Geeks3D.com that offers tech demos such as FurMark, TessMark, and other workloads to stress various areas of GPUs and drivers. Learn more via the OpenBenchmarking.org test page.
OpenArena
Skylake HD Graphics 530
Processor: Intel Core i5-6600K @ 3.50GHz (4 Cores), Motherboard: MSI Z170A GAMING PRO (MS-7984) v1.0, Chipset: Intel Sky Lake, Memory: 15360MB, Disk: 256GB TS256GSSD370S, Graphics: Intel Sky Lake (1150MHz), Audio: Realtek ALC1150, Monitor: DELL P2210H, Network: Intel Connection
OS: Ubuntu 15.04, Kernel: 4.2.0-996-generic (x86_64) 20150825, Desktop: Xfce 4.12, Display Server: X Server 1.17.1, Display Driver: intel 2.99.917, OpenGL: 3.3 Mesa 11.0.0-rc1 (git-ab94875), Compiler: GCC 4.9.2 + LLVM 3.8.0, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 1920x1080
Processor Notes: Scaling Governor: acpi-cpufreq ondemand
Graphics Notes: SNA
Testing initiated at 26 August 2015 18:48 by user phoronix.
Radeon HD 6570
Processor: Intel Core i5-6600K @ 3.50GHz (4 Cores), Motherboard: MSI Z170A GAMING PRO (MS-7984) v1.0, Chipset: Intel Sky Lake, Memory: 16384MB, Disk: 256GB TS256GSSD370S, Graphics: Sapphire AMD Radeon HD 6570/7570/8550 512MB, Audio: Realtek ALC1150, Monitor: DELL P2210H, Network: Intel Connection
OS: Ubuntu 15.04, Kernel: 4.2.0-996-generic (x86_64) 20150825, Desktop: Xfce 4.12, Display Server: X Server 1.17.1, Display Driver: radeon 7.5.99, OpenGL: 3.3 Mesa 11.0.0-rc1 (git-ab94875) Gallium 0.4, Compiler: GCC 4.9.2 + LLVM 3.8.0, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 1920x1080
Processor Notes: Scaling Governor: acpi-cpufreq ondemand
Graphics Notes: EXA
Testing initiated at 27 August 2015 08:18 by user phoronix.
Radeon HD 6870
Processor: Intel Core i5-6600K @ 3.50GHz (4 Cores), Motherboard: MSI Z170A GAMING PRO (MS-7984) v1.0, Chipset: Intel Sky Lake, Memory: 16384MB, Disk: 256GB TS256GSSD370S, Graphics: Sapphire AMD Radeon HD 6870 1024MB, Audio: Realtek ALC1150, Monitor: DELL P2210H, Network: Intel Connection
OS: Ubuntu 15.04, Kernel: 4.2.0-996-generic (x86_64) 20150825, Desktop: Xfce 4.12, Display Server: X Server 1.17.1, Display Driver: radeon 7.5.99, OpenGL: 3.3 Mesa 11.0.0-rc1 (git-ab94875) Gallium 0.4, Compiler: GCC 4.9.2 + LLVM 3.8.0, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 1920x1080
Processor Notes: Scaling Governor: acpi-cpufreq ondemand
Graphics Notes: EXA
Testing initiated at 26 August 2015 17:56 by user phoronix.
Radeon HD 6950
Processor: Intel Core i5-6600K @ 3.50GHz (4 Cores), Motherboard: MSI Z170A GAMING PRO (MS-7984) v1.0, Chipset: Intel Sky Lake, Memory: 16384MB, Disk: 256GB TS256GSSD370S, Graphics: Sapphire AMD Radeon HD 6950 2048MB, Audio: Realtek ALC1150, Monitor: DELL P2210H, Network: Intel Connection
OS: Ubuntu 15.04, Kernel: 4.2.0-996-generic (x86_64) 20150825, Desktop: Xfce 4.12, Display Server: X Server 1.17.1, Display Driver: radeon 7.5.99, OpenGL: 3.3 Mesa 11.0.0-rc1 (git-ab94875) Gallium 0.4, Compiler: GCC 4.9.2 + LLVM 3.8.0, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 1920x1080
Processor Notes: Scaling Governor: acpi-cpufreq ondemand
Graphics Notes: EXA
Testing initiated at 26 August 2015 20:58 by user phoronix.
Radeon HD 7950
Processor: Intel Core i5-6600K @ 3.50GHz (4 Cores), Motherboard: MSI Z170A GAMING PRO (MS-7984) v1.0, Chipset: Intel Sky Lake, Memory: 16384MB, Disk: 256GB TS256GSSD370S, Graphics: XFX AMD Radeon HD 7950/8950 OEM / R9 280 3072MB, Audio: Realtek ALC1150, Monitor: DELL P2210H, Network: Intel Connection
OS: Ubuntu 15.04, Kernel: 4.2.0-996-generic (x86_64) 20150825, Desktop: Xfce 4.12, Display Server: X Server 1.17.1, Display Driver: radeon 7.5.99, OpenGL: 4.1 Mesa 11.0.0-rc1 (git-ab94875) Gallium 0.4, Compiler: GCC 4.9.2 + LLVM 3.8.0, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 1920x1080
Processor Notes: Scaling Governor: acpi-cpufreq ondemand
Graphics Notes: GLAMOR
Testing initiated at 26 August 2015 20:04 by user phoronix.
Radeon R9 290
Processor: Intel Core i5-6600K @ 3.50GHz (4 Cores), Motherboard: MSI Z170A GAMING PRO (MS-7984) v1.0, Chipset: Intel Sky Lake, Memory: 16384MB, Disk: 256GB TS256GSSD370S, Graphics: XFX AMD Radeon R9 290 4096MB, Audio: Realtek ALC1150, Monitor: DELL P2210H, Network: Intel Connection
OS: Ubuntu 15.04, Kernel: 4.2.0-996-generic (x86_64) 20150825, Desktop: Xfce 4.12, Display Server: X Server 1.17.1, Display Driver: radeon 7.5.99, OpenGL: 4.1 Mesa 11.0.0-rc1 (git-ab94875) Gallium 0.4, Compiler: GCC 4.9.2 + LLVM 3.8.0, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 1920x1080
Processor Notes: Scaling Governor: acpi-cpufreq ondemand
Graphics Notes: GLAMOR
Testing initiated at 26 August 2015 22:16 by user phoronix.
Radeon R7 370
Processor: Intel Core i5-6600K @ 3.50GHz (4 Cores), Motherboard: MSI Z170A GAMING PRO (MS-7984) v1.0, Chipset: Intel Sky Lake, Memory: 16384MB, Disk: 256GB TS256GSSD370S, Graphics: MSI AMD Radeon R9 270 4096MB, Audio: Realtek ALC1150, Monitor: DELL P2210H, Network: Intel Connection
OS: Ubuntu 15.04, Kernel: 4.2.0-996-generic (x86_64) 20150825, Desktop: Xfce 4.12, Display Server: X Server 1.17.1, Display Driver: radeon 7.5.99, OpenGL: 4.1 Mesa 11.0.0-rc1 (git-ab94875) Gallium 0.4, Compiler: GCC 4.9.2 + LLVM 3.8.0, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 1920x1080
Processor Notes: Scaling Governor: acpi-cpufreq ondemand
Graphics Notes: GLAMOR
Testing initiated at 27 August 2015 07:09 by user phoronix.
2018-RX460
Processor: Intel Core i5-6600K @ 3.90GHz (4 Cores), Motherboard: ASRock Z170 Gaming-ITX/ac (P7.10 BIOS), Chipset: Intel Skylake, Memory: 16384MB, Disk: 250GB Samsung SSD 850 + 256GB SAMSUNG SSD SM84 + 120GB Samsung SSD 840 + 4001GB Western Digital WD40EFRX-68W, Graphics: XFX AMD Radeon 4096MB, Audio: Realtek ALC1150, Monitor: Q2770, Network: Intel Connection + Broadcom Limited BCM4352 802.11ac Wireless
OS: Ubuntu 18.04, Kernel: 4.15.0-22-generic (x86_64), Desktop: MATE 1.20.1, Display Driver: modesetting 1.19.6, OpenGL: 4.5 Mesa 18.0.0-rc5 (LLVM 6.0.0), OpenCL: OpenCL 1.1 Mesa 18.0.0-rc5, Compiler: GCC 7.3.0, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 2560x1440
Processor Notes: Scaling Governor: intel_pstate powersave
Graphics Notes: GLAMOR
Security Notes: KPTI + __user pointer sanitization + Full generic retpoline IBPB IBRS_FW Protection
Testing initiated at 27 May 2018 14:54 by user felix.