R600g Radeon vs. Catalyst Linux Testing Fresh HD 6870 and HD 6950 Linux benchmarks for a future article on Phoronix.com. ,,"R600g: HD 6870","R600g: HD 6950","Catalyst: HD 6870","Catalyst: HD 6950" Processor,,Intel Core i7-5960X @ 3.50GHz (16 Cores),Intel Core i7-5960X @ 3.50GHz (16 Cores),Intel Core i7-5960X @ 3.50GHz (16 Cores),Intel Core i7-5960X @ 3.50GHz (16 Cores) Motherboard,,Gigabyte X99-UD4-CF,Gigabyte X99-UD4-CF,Gigabyte X99-UD4-CF,Gigabyte X99-UD4-CF Chipset,,Intel Xeon E7 v3/Xeon,Intel Xeon E7 v3/Xeon,Intel Xeon E7 v3/Xeon,Intel Xeon E7 v3/Xeon Memory,,16384MB,16384MB,16384MB,16384MB Disk,,120GB Samsung SSD 850,120GB Samsung SSD 850,120GB Samsung SSD 850,120GB Samsung SSD 850 Graphics,,Sapphire AMD Radeon HD 6870 1024MB,Sapphire AMD Radeon HD 6950 2048MB,Sapphire AMD Radeon HD 6800 1024MB,Sapphire AMD Radeon HD 6900 2048MB Audio,,Realtek ALC1150,Realtek ALC1150,Realtek ALC1150,Realtek ALC1150 Monitor,,DELL P2415Q,DELL P2415Q,DELL P2415Q,DELL P2415Q Network,,Intel Connection,Intel Connection,Intel Connection,Intel Connection OS,,Ubuntu 15.10,Ubuntu 15.10,Ubuntu 15.10,Ubuntu 15.10 Kernel,,4.4.0-999-generic (x86_64) 20151215,4.4.0-999-generic (x86_64) 20151215,4.2.0-19-generic (x86_64),4.2.0-19-generic (x86_64) Desktop,,Unity,Unity,Unity,Unity Display Server,,X Server 1.17.2,X Server 1.17.2,X Server 1.17.2,X Server 1.17.2 Display Driver,,radeon 7.6.99,radeon 7.6.99,fglrx 15.20.3,fglrx 15.20.3 OpenGL,,3.3 Mesa 11.2.0-devel (padoka PPA) Gallium 0.4,4.1 Mesa 11.2.0-devel (padoka PPA) Gallium 0.4,4.4.13399,4.4.13399 Compiler,,GCC 4.9.3,GCC 4.9.3,GCC 4.9.3,GCC 4.9.3 File-System,,ext4,ext4,ext4,ext4 Screen Resolution,,1920x1080,1920x1080,1920x1080,1920x1080 ,,"R600g: HD 6870","R600g: HD 6950","Catalyst: HD 6870","Catalyst: HD 6950" "BioShock Infinite - Resolution: 1920 x 1080 - Effects Quality: Very High (FPS)",HIB,,29.58,62.20,63.40 "Counter-Strike: Global Offensive - Resolution: 1920 x 1080 (FPS)",HIB,85.43,96.85,77.09,112.56 "DiRT Showdown - Resolution: 1920 x 1080 - Graphics Preset: High - Multi-Sampling: 2x MSAA (FPS)",HIB,,66.80,62.05,63.76 "Metro 2033 Redux - Phoronix Test Suite v6.2.0m1 (FPS)",HIB,,34.81,44.13,48.76 "Metro: Last Light Redux - Phoronix Test Suite v6.2.0m1 (FPS)",HIB,,38.63,45.81,54.11 "Team Fortress 2 - Resolution: 1920 x 1080 (FPS)",HIB,96.37,101.73,122.59,131.26 "Tesseract - Resolution: 1920 x 1080 (FPS)",HIB,126.15,134.94,124.01,138.40 "Xonotic - Resolution: 1920 x 1080 - Effects Quality: Ultra (FPS)",HIB,152.92,172.89,206.56,214.82 "Xonotic - Resolution: 1920 x 1080 - Effects Quality: Ultimate (FPS)",HIB,105.89,130.69,150.12,168.51