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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