High Performance AMD NVIDIA Linux GPU Comparison Testing high-end AMD Radeon and NVIDIA GeForce graphics cards using the proprietary Linux graphics drivers on Ubuntu 14.04 64-bit with gaming benchmarks, Steam Linux gaming, and more. Benchmarks by Michael Larabel for a future article on Phoronix.com.
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High Performance AMD NVIDIA Linux GPU Comparison Processor Motherboard Chipset Memory Disk Graphics Audio Monitor Network OS Kernel Desktop Display Server Display Driver OpenGL Compiler File-System Screen Resolution AMD Radeon HD 7950 AMD Radeon R9 270X AMD Radeon R9 290 NVIDIA GeForce GTX 680 NVIDIA GeForce GTX 760 NVIDIA GeForce GTX 770 NVIDIA GeForce GTX 780 Ti NVIDIA GeForce GTX TITAN Intel Core i7-4770K @ 3.50GHz (8 Cores) ECS Z87H3-A2X EXTREME v1.0 Intel 4th Gen Core DRAM 16384MB 120GB Samsung SSD 840 XFX AMD Radeon HD 7900 3072MB (900/1375MHz) Realtek ALC1150 Samsung SyncMaster Realtek RTL8111/8168/8411 Ubuntu 14.04 3.13.0-24-generic (x86_64) Unity 7.2.0 X Server 1.15.1 fglrx 14.10.2 4.3.12874 GCC 4.8.2 ext4 2560x1600 Supported device 6810 2048MB (1100/1400MHz) Supported device 67B1 4096MB (947/1250MHz) NVIDIA GeForce GTX 680 2048MB (1006/3004MHz) NVIDIA 337.19 4.3.0 NVIDIA GeForce GTX 760 2048MB (980/3004MHz) NVIDIA GeForce GTX 770 2048MB (1045/3505MHz) NVIDIA GeForce GTX 780 Ti 3072MB (875/3500MHz) NVIDIA GeForce GTX TITAN 6144MB (836/3004MHz) OpenBenchmarking.org Environment Details - AMD Radeon HD 7950, AMD Radeon R9 270X, AMD Radeon R9 290: LIBGL_DRIVERS_PATH=/usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/dri:/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/dri
High Performance AMD NVIDIA Linux GPU Comparison unigine-heaven: 1920 x 1080 unigine-valley: 1920 x 1080 unigine-tropics: 2560 x 1600 reaction: 2560 x 1600 hl2lostcoast: 2560 x 1600 xonotic: 2560 x 1600 - Ultimate cstrike: 2560 x 1600 tesseract: 1920 x 1080 AMD Radeon HD 7950 AMD Radeon R9 270X AMD Radeon R9 290 NVIDIA GeForce GTX 680 NVIDIA GeForce GTX 760 NVIDIA GeForce GTX 770 NVIDIA GeForce GTX 780 Ti NVIDIA GeForce GTX TITAN 42.56 46.63 98.49 510.43 204.60 130.17 213.12 123.83 35.86 43.79 87.38 420.17 189.13 124.38 218.38 123.21 55.27 65.32 119.65 448.90 237.86 141.27 216.40 123.68 48.62 64.69 115.94 551.47 218.43 154.98 219.49 128.03 43.37 55.16 99.65 510.87 190.10 140.06 206.18 128.05 51.03 67.79 121.65 587.37 234.06 160.78 227.30 127.87 88.61 90.46 174.14 749.20 283.88 184.91 232.48 127.90 83.47 84.67 158.29 688.77 273.89 181.39 229.06 127.95 OpenBenchmarking.org
Reaction Quake 3 Resolution: 2560 x 1600 - Total Frame Time OpenBenchmarking.org Milliseconds, Fewer Is Better Reaction Quake 3 1.0 Beta Resolution: 2560 x 1600 - Total Frame Time NVIDIA GeForce GTX 780 Ti NVIDIA GeForce GTX TITAN NVIDIA GeForce GTX 770 NVIDIA GeForce GTX 680 NVIDIA GeForce GTX 760 AMD Radeon HD 7950 AMD Radeon R9 290 AMD Radeon R9 270X 3 6 9 12 15 Min: 1 / Avg: 1.29 / Max: 3 Min: 1 / Avg: 1.41 / Max: 3 Min: 1 / Avg: 1.67 / Max: 3 Min: 1 / Avg: 1.79 / Max: 4 Min: 1 / Avg: 1.91 / Max: 4 Min: 1 / Avg: 1.93 / Max: 8 Min: 1 / Avg: 2.19 / Max: 9 Min: 1 / Avg: 2.34 / Max: 9
Counter-Strike Source System Power Consumption Monitor OpenBenchmarking.org Watts, Fewer Is Better Counter-Strike Source System Power Consumption Monitor AMD Radeon HD 7950 AMD Radeon R9 270X AMD Radeon R9 290 NVIDIA GeForce GTX 770 NVIDIA GeForce GTX TITAN NVIDIA GeForce GTX 760 NVIDIA GeForce GTX 680 NVIDIA GeForce GTX 780 Ti 60 120 180 240 300 Min: 66.6 / Avg: 117.56 / Max: 223.7 Min: 66 / Avg: 120.53 / Max: 223.5 Min: 72.4 / Avg: 128.57 / Max: 278.4 Min: 101.4 / Avg: 187.81 / Max: 266.7 Min: 122.6 / Avg: 199.19 / Max: 319.4 Min: 105.9 / Avg: 216.46 / Max: 270.4 Min: 109.8 / Avg: 221.66 / Max: 263.2 Min: 138.4 / Avg: 274.08 / Max: 335.2
Unigine Heaven System Power Consumption Monitor OpenBenchmarking.org Watts, Fewer Is Better Unigine Heaven 4.0 System Power Consumption Monitor AMD Radeon R9 270X AMD Radeon HD 7950 NVIDIA GeForce GTX 770 NVIDIA GeForce GTX 680 NVIDIA GeForce GTX 760 AMD Radeon R9 290 NVIDIA GeForce GTX TITAN NVIDIA GeForce GTX 780 Ti 70 140 210 280 350 Min: 90.3 / Avg: 216.1 / Max: 237 Min: 134 / Avg: 246.81 / Max: 271.9 Min: 129.3 / Avg: 249.3 / Max: 291.5 Min: 130.1 / Avg: 250.92 / Max: 267.1 Min: 128.7 / Avg: 251.71 / Max: 270.3 Min: 96.3 / Avg: 310.64 / Max: 351.3 Min: 154.3 / Avg: 321.08 / Max: 363.2 Min: 164.9 / Avg: 346.94 / Max: 385
Counter-Strike Source GPU Temperature Monitor OpenBenchmarking.org Celsius, Fewer Is Better Counter-Strike Source GPU Temperature Monitor AMD Radeon R9 270X AMD Radeon HD 7950 NVIDIA GeForce GTX TITAN AMD Radeon R9 290 NVIDIA GeForce GTX 780 Ti NVIDIA GeForce GTX 770 NVIDIA GeForce GTX 680 NVIDIA GeForce GTX 760 15 30 45 60 75 Min: 30 / Avg: 35.19 / Max: 42 Min: 41 / Avg: 49.42 / Max: 62 Min: 53 / Avg: 61.27 / Max: 71 Min: 60 / Avg: 61.56 / Max: 66 Min: 50 / Avg: 62.88 / Max: 70 Min: 53 / Avg: 63.92 / Max: 71 Min: 52 / Avg: 66.31 / Max: 76 Min: 55 / Avg: 72.67 / Max: 81
Unigine Heaven Resolution: 1920 x 1080 OpenBenchmarking.org Frames Per Second, More Is Better Unigine Heaven 4.0 Resolution: 1920 x 1080 NVIDIA GeForce GTX 780 Ti NVIDIA GeForce GTX TITAN AMD Radeon R9 290 NVIDIA GeForce GTX 770 NVIDIA GeForce GTX 680 NVIDIA GeForce GTX 760 AMD Radeon HD 7950 AMD Radeon R9 270X 20 40 60 80 100 SE +/- 0.18, N = 3 SE +/- 0.44, N = 3 SE +/- 0.02, N = 3 SE +/- 0.08, N = 3 SE +/- 0.03, N = 3 SE +/- 0.04, N = 3 SE +/- 0.01, N = 3 SE +/- 0.00, N = 3 88.61 83.47 55.27 51.03 48.62 43.37 42.56 35.86
Unigine Heaven GPU Temperature Monitor OpenBenchmarking.org Celsius, Fewer Is Better Unigine Heaven 4.0 GPU Temperature Monitor AMD Radeon R9 270X AMD Radeon HD 7950 NVIDIA GeForce GTX 770 NVIDIA GeForce GTX 680 NVIDIA GeForce GTX TITAN NVIDIA GeForce GTX 760 NVIDIA GeForce GTX 780 Ti AMD Radeon R9 290 20 40 60 80 100 Min: 39 / Avg: 53.83 / Max: 56 Min: 56 / Avg: 77.61 / Max: 81 Min: 55 / Avg: 78.38 / Max: 80 Min: 62 / Avg: 78.47 / Max: 80 Min: 56 / Avg: 78.69 / Max: 81 Min: 55 / Avg: 79.47 / Max: 82 Min: 49 / Avg: 80.36 / Max: 83 Min: 66 / Avg: 88.31 / Max: 93
Unigine Valley GPU Temperature Monitor OpenBenchmarking.org Celsius, Fewer Is Better Unigine Valley 1.0 GPU Temperature Monitor AMD Radeon R9 270X AMD Radeon HD 7950 NVIDIA GeForce GTX 770 NVIDIA GeForce GTX 680 NVIDIA GeForce GTX TITAN NVIDIA GeForce GTX 760 NVIDIA GeForce GTX 780 Ti AMD Radeon R9 290 20 40 60 80 100 Min: 40 / Avg: 55.15 / Max: 57 Min: 60 / Avg: 78.34 / Max: 81 Min: 65 / Avg: 79.36 / Max: 80 Min: 70 / Avg: 79.46 / Max: 81 Min: 74 / Avg: 79.71 / Max: 81 Min: 77 / Avg: 80.41 / Max: 81 Min: 76 / Avg: 81.33 / Max: 83 Min: 85 / Avg: 90 / Max: 93
Tesseract System Power Consumption Monitor OpenBenchmarking.org Watts, Fewer Is Better Tesseract 2014-05-12 System Power Consumption Monitor NVIDIA GeForce GTX 770 NVIDIA GeForce GTX 760 AMD Radeon R9 270X NVIDIA GeForce GTX 680 AMD Radeon HD 7950 NVIDIA GeForce GTX TITAN NVIDIA GeForce GTX 780 Ti AMD Radeon R9 290 40 80 120 160 200 Min: 102.3 / Avg: 137.83 / Max: 142.3 Min: 104 / Avg: 140.21 / Max: 145.3 Min: 88.9 / Avg: 144.57 / Max: 154.3 Min: 131.6 / Avg: 147.29 / Max: 152.1 Min: 89.4 / Avg: 157.38 / Max: 170.5 Min: 147.4 / Avg: 157.8 / Max: 163.5 Min: 134.9 / Avg: 165.43 / Max: 168.9 Min: 94.7 / Avg: 180.65 / Max: 200.3
Unigine Valley Resolution: 1920 x 1080 OpenBenchmarking.org Frames Per Second, More Is Better Unigine Valley 1.0 Resolution: 1920 x 1080 NVIDIA GeForce GTX 780 Ti NVIDIA GeForce GTX TITAN NVIDIA GeForce GTX 770 AMD Radeon R9 290 NVIDIA GeForce GTX 680 NVIDIA GeForce GTX 760 AMD Radeon HD 7950 AMD Radeon R9 270X 20 40 60 80 100 SE +/- 0.05, N = 3 SE +/- 0.21, N = 3 SE +/- 0.40, N = 3 SE +/- 0.06, N = 3 SE +/- 0.02, N = 3 SE +/- 0.16, N = 3 SE +/- 0.02, N = 3 SE +/- 0.02, N = 3 90.46 84.67 67.79 65.32 64.69 55.16 46.63 43.79
Unigine Tropics Resolution: 2560 x 1600 OpenBenchmarking.org Frames Per Second, More Is Better Unigine Tropics 1.3 Resolution: 2560 x 1600 NVIDIA GeForce GTX 780 Ti NVIDIA GeForce GTX TITAN NVIDIA GeForce GTX 770 AMD Radeon R9 290 NVIDIA GeForce GTX 680 NVIDIA GeForce GTX 760 AMD Radeon HD 7950 AMD Radeon R9 270X 40 80 120 160 200 SE +/- 0.33, N = 3 SE +/- 0.21, N = 3 SE +/- 0.43, N = 3 SE +/- 0.02, N = 3 SE +/- 0.03, N = 3 SE +/- 0.41, N = 3 SE +/- 0.02, N = 3 SE +/- 0.01, N = 3 174.14 158.29 121.65 119.65 115.94 99.65 98.49 87.38
Tesseract GPU Temperature Monitor OpenBenchmarking.org Celsius, Fewer Is Better Tesseract 2014-05-12 GPU Temperature Monitor AMD Radeon R9 270X NVIDIA GeForce GTX 780 Ti NVIDIA GeForce GTX 770 AMD Radeon HD 7950 NVIDIA GeForce GTX TITAN NVIDIA GeForce GTX 760 NVIDIA GeForce GTX 680 AMD Radeon R9 290 14 28 42 56 70 Min: 39 / Avg: 44.11 / Max: 46 Min: 55 / Avg: 55.4 / Max: 56 Min: 59 / Avg: 60.75 / Max: 62 Min: 56 / Avg: 61.18 / Max: 64 Min: 61 / Avg: 61.56 / Max: 62 Min: 60 / Avg: 62.67 / Max: 63 Min: 64 / Avg: 66.79 / Max: 69 Min: 67 / Avg: 71.11 / Max: 75
Xonotic GPU Temperature Monitor OpenBenchmarking.org Celsius, Fewer Is Better Xonotic 0.7 GPU Temperature Monitor AMD Radeon R9 270X AMD Radeon HD 7950 NVIDIA GeForce GTX 780 Ti NVIDIA GeForce GTX 680 NVIDIA GeForce GTX TITAN NVIDIA GeForce GTX 770 NVIDIA GeForce GTX 760 AMD Radeon R9 290 16 32 48 64 80 Min: 46 / Avg: 48.81 / Max: 52 Min: 60 / Avg: 67.75 / Max: 73 Min: 71 / Avg: 72.43 / Max: 74 Min: 66 / Avg: 75.21 / Max: 78 Min: 75 / Avg: 76.43 / Max: 77 Min: 66 / Avg: 76.55 / Max: 80 Min: 70 / Avg: 77.56 / Max: 81 Min: 80 / Avg: 83.78 / Max: 87
Reaction Quake 3 Resolution: 2560 x 1600 OpenBenchmarking.org Frames Per Second, More Is Better Reaction Quake 3 1.0 Beta Resolution: 2560 x 1600 NVIDIA GeForce GTX 780 Ti NVIDIA GeForce GTX TITAN NVIDIA GeForce GTX 770 NVIDIA GeForce GTX 680 NVIDIA GeForce GTX 760 AMD Radeon HD 7950 AMD Radeon R9 290 AMD Radeon R9 270X 160 320 480 640 800 SE +/- 11.30, N = 3 SE +/- 7.80, N = 3 SE +/- 2.09, N = 3 SE +/- 1.31, N = 3 SE +/- 1.31, N = 3 SE +/- 1.23, N = 3 SE +/- 0.12, N = 3 SE +/- 0.09, N = 3 749.20 688.77 587.37 551.47 510.87 510.43 448.90 420.17 MIN: 726.6 / MAX: 760.5 MIN: 673.2 / MAX: 697.4 MIN: 583.2 / MAX: 589.7 MIN: 548.9 / MAX: 553.2 MIN: 509 / MAX: 513.4 MIN: 508.7 / MAX: 512.8 MIN: 448.7 / MAX: 449.1 MIN: 420 / MAX: 420.3
Counter-Strike Source Resolution: 2560 x 1600 OpenBenchmarking.org Frames Per Second Per Watt, More Is Better Counter-Strike Source Resolution: 2560 x 1600 AMD Radeon R9 270X AMD Radeon HD 7950 AMD Radeon R9 290 NVIDIA GeForce GTX TITAN NVIDIA GeForce GTX 680 NVIDIA GeForce GTX 770 NVIDIA GeForce GTX 760 NVIDIA GeForce GTX 780 Ti 0.4073 0.8146 1.2219 1.6292 2.0365 1.81 1.81 1.68 1.37 1.26 1.25 1.14 1.04
Unigine Heaven Resolution: 1920 x 1080 OpenBenchmarking.org Frames Per Second Per Watt, More Is Better Unigine Heaven 4.0 Resolution: 1920 x 1080 NVIDIA GeForce GTX TITAN NVIDIA GeForce GTX 780 Ti NVIDIA GeForce GTX 770 NVIDIA GeForce GTX 680 AMD Radeon R9 290 NVIDIA GeForce GTX 760 AMD Radeon R9 270X AMD Radeon HD 7950 0.0585 0.117 0.1755 0.234 0.2925 0.26 0.26 0.20 0.19 0.18 0.17 0.17 0.17
Half-Life 2 - Lost Coast Resolution: 2560 x 1600 OpenBenchmarking.org Frames Per Second, More Is Better Half-Life 2 - Lost Coast Resolution: 2560 x 1600 NVIDIA GeForce GTX 780 Ti NVIDIA GeForce GTX TITAN AMD Radeon R9 290 NVIDIA GeForce GTX 770 NVIDIA GeForce GTX 680 AMD Radeon HD 7950 NVIDIA GeForce GTX 760 AMD Radeon R9 270X 60 120 180 240 300 SE +/- 1.51, N = 3 SE +/- 1.22, N = 2 SE +/- 2.02, N = 3 SE +/- 0.56, N = 2 SE +/- 0.31, N = 3 SE +/- 0.34, N = 2 SE +/- 0.16, N = 3 SE +/- 0.21, N = 2 283.88 273.89 237.86 234.06 218.43 204.60 190.10 189.13
Xonotic Resolution: 2560 x 1600 - Effects Quality: Ultimate OpenBenchmarking.org Frames Per Second, More Is Better Xonotic 0.7 Resolution: 2560 x 1600 - Effects Quality: Ultimate NVIDIA GeForce GTX 780 Ti NVIDIA GeForce GTX TITAN NVIDIA GeForce GTX 770 NVIDIA GeForce GTX 680 AMD Radeon R9 290 NVIDIA GeForce GTX 760 AMD Radeon HD 7950 AMD Radeon R9 270X 40 80 120 160 200 SE +/- 0.89, N = 3 SE +/- 0.45, N = 3 SE +/- 0.55, N = 3 SE +/- 0.46, N = 3 SE +/- 0.73, N = 3 SE +/- 0.36, N = 3 SE +/- 0.71, N = 3 SE +/- 0.38, N = 3 184.91 181.39 160.78 154.98 141.27 140.06 130.17 124.38 MIN: 41 / MAX: 474 MIN: 40 / MAX: 445 MIN: 38 / MAX: 357 MIN: 41 / MAX: 332 MIN: 23 / MAX: 429 MIN: 39 / MAX: 292 MIN: 26 / MAX: 412 MIN: 28 / MAX: 369
Counter-Strike Source Resolution: 2560 x 1600 OpenBenchmarking.org Frames Per Second, More Is Better Counter-Strike Source Resolution: 2560 x 1600 NVIDIA GeForce GTX 780 Ti NVIDIA GeForce GTX TITAN NVIDIA GeForce GTX 770 NVIDIA GeForce GTX 680 AMD Radeon R9 270X AMD Radeon R9 290 AMD Radeon HD 7950 NVIDIA GeForce GTX 760 50 100 150 200 250 SE +/- 2.14, N = 3 SE +/- 1.40, N = 3 SE +/- 1.21, N = 3 SE +/- 0.27, N = 3 SE +/- 0.12, N = 3 SE +/- 2.83, N = 3 SE +/- 2.77, N = 3 SE +/- 0.22, N = 3 232.48 229.06 227.30 219.49 218.38 216.40 213.12 206.18
Tesseract Resolution: 1920 x 1080 OpenBenchmarking.org Frames Per Second, More Is Better Tesseract 2014-05-12 Resolution: 1920 x 1080 NVIDIA GeForce GTX 760 NVIDIA GeForce GTX 680 NVIDIA GeForce GTX TITAN NVIDIA GeForce GTX 780 Ti NVIDIA GeForce GTX 770 AMD Radeon HD 7950 AMD Radeon R9 290 AMD Radeon R9 270X 30 60 90 120 150 SE +/- 0.00, N = 3 SE +/- 0.02, N = 3 SE +/- 0.10, N = 3 SE +/- 0.15, N = 3 SE +/- 0.18, N = 3 SE +/- 0.43, N = 3 SE +/- 0.37, N = 3 SE +/- 0.44, N = 3 128.05 128.03 127.95 127.90 127.87 123.83 123.68 123.21
System Power Consumption Monitor Phoronix Test Suite System Monitoring OpenBenchmarking.org Watts System Power Consumption Monitor Phoronix Test Suite System Monitoring AMD Radeon R9 270X AMD Radeon HD 7950 NVIDIA GeForce GTX 770 NVIDIA GeForce GTX 760 AMD Radeon R9 290 NVIDIA GeForce GTX 680 NVIDIA GeForce GTX TITAN NVIDIA GeForce GTX 780 Ti 70 140 210 280 350 Min: 65.4 / Avg: 168.07 / Max: 237 Min: 65.6 / Avg: 209.75 / Max: 271.9 Min: 58.8 / Avg: 228.03 / Max: 312.7 Min: 62 / Avg: 228.49 / Max: 270.4 Min: 65 / Avg: 232.69 / Max: 351.3 Min: 65 / Avg: 234.78 / Max: 268.7 Min: 60.8 / Avg: 243.34 / Max: 363.2 Min: 63.5 / Avg: 310.47 / Max: 385
GPU Temperature Monitor Phoronix Test Suite System Monitoring OpenBenchmarking.org Celsius GPU Temperature Monitor Phoronix Test Suite System Monitoring AMD Radeon R9 270X AMD Radeon HD 7950 NVIDIA GeForce GTX TITAN NVIDIA GeForce GTX 780 Ti NVIDIA GeForce GTX 770 NVIDIA GeForce GTX 680 NVIDIA GeForce GTX 760 AMD Radeon R9 290 20 40 60 80 100 Min: 28 / Avg: 46.55 / Max: 57 Min: 41 / Avg: 72 / Max: 82 Min: 40 / Avg: 72.68 / Max: 81 Min: 33 / Avg: 75.3 / Max: 83 Min: 43 / Avg: 75.69 / Max: 81 Min: 38 / Avg: 75.95 / Max: 81 Min: 38 / Avg: 75.95 / Max: 82 Min: 56 / Avg: 80.21 / Max: 93
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