GeForce GTX 680 Linux OpenGL Scaling vs. Radeon HD 7950

Comparing the resolution scaling performance of the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 680 Kepler and AMD Radeon HD 7950 Southern Islands graphics cards under Linux with the Ubuntu 12.04 64-bit operating system. Both graphics cards using the respective NVIDIA/AMD binary Linux GPU drivers. Testing by Michael Larabel for a future article on Phoronix.com.

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