GPU Intel AMD Linux Open-Source Comparison Benchmark results by Michael Larabel for a future article. 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 Radeon HD 6870-catalyst: Processor: AMD FX-6300 Six-Core @ 3.50GHz (6 Cores), Motherboard: ASUS M5A97 R2.0, Memory: 32768MB, Disk: 250GB MAXTOR STM325031 + 160GB SAMSUNG SP1614C + 400GB SAMSUNG HD400LJ + 3001GB Seagate ST3000DM001-1CH1, Graphics: AMD Radeon HD 6800 1024MB (900/1050MHz), Monitor: E2250 + M227WD OS: Gentoo 2.2, Kernel: 3.18.16-gentoo-fglrx (x86_64), Desktop: KDE 4.14.8, Display Server: X Server 1.16.4, Display Driver: fglrx 15.20.3, OpenGL: 4.4.13397, Compiler: GCC 4.9.3 + Clang 3.5.0 + LLVM 3.5.0, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 1920x1080 OpenArena 0.8.8 Resolution: 1920 x 1080 Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better Skylake HD Graphics 530 . 69.37 |============== Radeon HD 6570 .......... 71.57 |=============== Radeon HD 6870 .......... 180.43 |===================================== Radeon HD 6950 .......... 113.10 |======================= Radeon HD 7950 .......... 218.82 |============================================= Radeon R9 290 ........... 208.53 |=========================================== Radeon R7 370 ........... 203.43 |========================================== Radeon HD 6870-catalyst . 99.83 |===================== OpenArena 0.8.8 Resolution: 1920 x 1080 - Total Frame Time Milliseconds < Lower Is Better Skylake HD Graphics 530 . MIN: 11.0 AVG: 14.1 MAX: 48.0 Radeon HD 6570 .......... MIN: 7.0 AVG: 14.0 MAX: 19.0 Radeon HD 6870 .......... MIN: 2.0 AVG: 5.5 MAX: 10.0 Radeon HD 6950 .......... MIN: 4.0 AVG: 8.8 MAX: 14.0 Radeon HD 7950 .......... MIN: 2.0 AVG: 5.0 MAX: 25.0 Radeon R9 290 ........... MIN: 1.0 AVG: 4.8 MAX: 30.0 Radeon R7 370 ........... MIN: 1.0 AVG: 5.1 MAX: 29.0 Radeon HD 6870-catalyst . MIN: 2.0 AVG: 9.8 MAX: 29.0 Tesseract 2014-05-12 Resolution: 1920 x 1080 Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better Skylake HD Graphics 530 . 55.71 |============== Radeon HD 6570 .......... 46.50 |============ Radeon HD 6870 .......... 140.28 |=================================== Radeon HD 6950 .......... 113.90 |============================ Radeon HD 7950 .......... 156.17 |======================================= Radeon R9 290 ........... 180.95 |============================================= Radeon R7 370 ........... 152.67 |====================================== Unigine Tropics 1.3 Resolution: 1920 x 1080 - Mode: Fullscreen Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better Radeon HD 6570 .......... 19.15 |====== Radeon HD 6870 .......... 67.44 |===================== Radeon HD 6950 .......... 81.67 |========================= Radeon HD 7950 .......... 108.94 |================================= Radeon R9 290 ........... 147.71 |============================================= Radeon R7 370 ........... 97.16 |============================== Radeon HD 6870-catalyst . 85.70 |========================== Unigine Valley 1.0 Resolution: 1920 x 1080 - Mode: Fullscreen Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better Skylake HD Graphics 530 . 8.09 |====== Radeon HD 6570 .......... 5.70 |==== Radeon HD 6870 .......... 22.79 |================= Radeon HD 6950 .......... 30.02 |======================= Radeon HD 7950 .......... 39.67 |============================== Radeon R9 290 ........... 60.78 |============================================== Radeon R7 370 ........... 35.37 |=========================== Radeon HD 6870-catalyst . 25.50 |=================== Xonotic 0.8 Resolution: 1920 x 1080 - Effects Quality: Ultra Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better Skylake HD Graphics 530 . 80.44 |===================== Radeon HD 6570 .......... 54.36 |============== Radeon HD 6870 .......... 152.05 |======================================== Radeon HD 6950 .......... 144.27 |====================================== Radeon HD 7950 .......... 170.56 |============================================= Radeon R9 290 ........... 172.36 |============================================= Radeon R7 370 ........... 169.92 |============================================ Radeon HD 6870-catalyst . 86.14 |====================== Xonotic 0.8 Resolution: 1920 x 1080 - Effects Quality: Ultimate Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better Skylake HD Graphics 530 . 62.31 |==================== Radeon HD 6570 .......... 32.30 |========== Radeon HD 6870 .......... 106.68 |================================== Radeon HD 6950 .......... 114.28 |==================================== Radeon HD 7950 .......... 138.41 |============================================ Radeon R9 290 ........... 143.12 |============================================= Radeon R7 370 ........... 135.68 |=========================================== Radeon HD 6870-catalyst . 65.00 |==================== GpuTest 0.7.0 Test: Plot3D - Resolution: 1920 x 1080 - Mode: Fullscreen Points > Higher Is Better Skylake HD Graphics 530 . 7847 |======= Radeon HD 6570 .......... 4136 |==== Radeon HD 6870 .......... 16565 |============== Radeon HD 6950 .......... 26615 |======================= Radeon HD 7950 .......... 43657 |====================================== Radeon R9 290 ........... 50854 |============================================ Radeon R7 370 ........... 52894 |============================================== Radeon HD 6870-catalyst . 10007 |========= GpuTest 0.7.0 Test: Furmark - Resolution: 1920 x 1080 - Mode: Fullscreen Points > Higher Is Better Skylake HD Graphics 530 . 702 |====== Radeon HD 6570 .......... 702 |====== Radeon HD 6870 .......... 2076 |================== Radeon HD 6950 .......... 2221 |==================== Radeon HD 7950 .......... 2954 |========================== Radeon R9 290 ........... 5351 |=============================================== Radeon R7 370 ........... 3315 |============================= Radeon HD 6870-catalyst . 1905 |================= GpuTest 0.7.0 Test: Triangle - Resolution: 1920 x 1080 - Mode: Fullscreen Points > Higher Is Better Skylake HD Graphics 530 . 22625 |=== Radeon HD 6570 .......... 24073 |==== Radeon HD 6870 .......... 105618 |================ Radeon HD 6950 .......... 91847 |============== Radeon HD 7950 .......... 270752 |========================================== Radeon R9 290 ........... 290910 |============================================= Radeon R7 370 ........... 276510 |=========================================== Radeon HD 6870-catalyst . 16563 |=== GpuTest 0.7.0 Test: Pixmark Piano - Resolution: 1920 x 1080 - Mode: Fullscreen Points > Higher Is Better Radeon HD 6570 .......... 23642 |============= Radeon HD 6870 .......... 39132 |====================== Radeon HD 6950 .......... 81766 |============================================== Radeon HD 7950 .......... 684 | Radeon R9 290 ........... 1147 |= Radeon R7 370 ........... 510 | Radeon HD 6870-catalyst . 387 | GpuTest 0.7.0 Test: Pixmark Volplosion - Resolution: 1920 x 1080 - Mode: Fullscreen Points > Higher Is Better Skylake HD Graphics 530 . 391 | Radeon HD 6570 .......... 21801 |=========== Radeon HD 6870 .......... 28421 |============== Radeon HD 6950 .......... 92389 |============================================== Radeon HD 7950 .......... 1766 |= Radeon R9 290 ........... 2926 |= Radeon R7 370 ........... 1313 |= Radeon HD 6870-catalyst . 1286 |=