Dota 2 Vulkan OpenGL NVIDIA AMD Ubuntu Linux Dota 2 Vulkan Linux benchmarks by Michael Larabel for a future article on Phoronix with AMD and NVIDIA. Radeon R9 285: Processor: Intel Xeon E3-1280 v5 @ 4.00GHz (8 Cores), Motherboard: MSI C236A WORKSTATION (MS-7998) v1.0, Chipset: Intel Sky Lake, Memory: 16384MB, Disk: 120GB Samsung SSD 850, Graphics: XFX AMD Radeon R9 200 2048MB, Audio: Realtek ALC1150, Monitor: DELL P2415Q, Network: Intel Connection OS: Ubuntu 16.04, Kernel: 4.4.0-22-generic (x86_64), Desktop: Unity 7.4.0, Display Server: X Server 1.18.3, OpenGL: 4.5.13439, OpenCL: OpenCL 2.0 AMD-APP (2079.3), Compiler: GCC 5.3.1 20160413, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 3840x2160 Radeon R9 290: Processor: Intel Xeon E3-1280 v5 @ 4.00GHz (8 Cores), Motherboard: MSI C236A WORKSTATION (MS-7998) v1.0, Chipset: Intel Sky Lake, Memory: 16384MB, Disk: 120GB Samsung SSD 850, Graphics: XFX AMD Radeon R9 200 4096MB, Audio: Realtek ALC1150, Monitor: DELL P2415Q, Network: Intel Connection OS: Ubuntu 16.04, Kernel: 4.4.0-22-generic (x86_64), Desktop: Unity 7.4.0, Display Server: X Server 1.18.3, OpenGL: 4.5.13439, OpenCL: OpenCL 2.0 AMD-APP (2079.3), Compiler: GCC 5.3.1 20160413, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 3840x2160 Radeon R9 Fury: Processor: Intel Xeon E3-1280 v5 @ 4.00GHz (8 Cores), Motherboard: MSI C236A WORKSTATION (MS-7998) v1.0, Chipset: Intel Sky Lake, Memory: 16384MB, Disk: 120GB Samsung SSD 850, Graphics: Sapphire AMD Radeon R9 Fury 4096MB, Audio: Realtek ALC1150, Monitor: DELL P2415Q, Network: Intel Connection OS: Ubuntu 16.04, Kernel: 4.4.0-22-generic (x86_64), Desktop: Unity 7.4.0, Display Server: X Server 1.18.3, OpenGL: 4.5.13439, OpenCL: OpenCL 2.0 AMD-APP (2079.3), Compiler: GCC 5.3.1 20160413, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 3840x2160 GeForce GTX 780 Ti: Processor: Intel Xeon E3-1280 v5 @ 4.00GHz (8 Cores), Motherboard: MSI C236A WORKSTATION (MS-7998) v1.0, Chipset: Intel Sky Lake, Memory: 16384MB, Disk: 120GB Samsung SSD 850, Graphics: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 780 Ti 3069MB (875/3500MHz), Audio: Realtek ALC1150, Network: Intel Connection OS: Ubuntu 16.04, Kernel: 4.4.0-22-generic (x86_64), Desktop: Unity 7.4.0, Display Server: X Server 1.18.3, Display Driver: NVIDIA 367.18, OpenGL: 4.5.0, Vulkan: 1.0.8, Compiler: GCC 5.3.1 20160413, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 3840x2160 GeForce GTX 960: Processor: Intel Xeon E3-1280 v5 @ 4.00GHz (8 Cores), Motherboard: MSI C236A WORKSTATION (MS-7998) v1.0, Chipset: Intel Sky Lake, Memory: 16384MB, Disk: 120GB Samsung SSD 850, Graphics: eVGA NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960 2045MB (1277/3505MHz), Audio: Realtek ALC1150, Network: Intel Connection OS: Ubuntu 16.04, Kernel: 4.4.0-22-generic (x86_64), Desktop: Unity 7.4.0, Display Server: X Server 1.18.3, Display Driver: NVIDIA 367.18, OpenGL: 4.5.0, Vulkan: 1.0.8, Compiler: GCC 5.3.1 20160413, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 3840x2160 GeForce GTX 970: Processor: Intel Xeon E3-1280 v5 @ 4.00GHz (8 Cores), Motherboard: MSI C236A WORKSTATION (MS-7998) v1.0, Chipset: Intel Sky Lake, Memory: 16384MB, Disk: 120GB Samsung SSD 850, Graphics: eVGA NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970 4093MB (1163/3505MHz), Audio: Realtek ALC1150, Network: Intel Connection OS: Ubuntu 16.04, Kernel: 4.4.0-22-generic (x86_64), Desktop: Unity 7.4.0, Display Server: X Server 1.18.3, Display Driver: NVIDIA 367.18, OpenGL: 4.5.0, Vulkan: 1.0.8, Compiler: GCC 5.3.1 20160413, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 3840x2160 GeForce GTX 980: Processor: Intel Xeon E3-1280 v5 @ 4.00GHz (8 Cores), Motherboard: MSI C236A WORKSTATION (MS-7998) v1.0, Chipset: Intel Sky Lake, Memory: 16384MB, Disk: 120GB Samsung SSD 850, Graphics: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 4093MB (1126/3505MHz), Audio: Realtek ALC1150, Network: Intel Connection OS: Ubuntu 16.04, Kernel: 4.4.0-22-generic (x86_64), Desktop: Unity 7.4.0, Display Server: X Server 1.18.3, Display Driver: NVIDIA 367.18, OpenGL: 4.5.0, Vulkan: 1.0.8, Compiler: GCC 5.3.1 20160413, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 3840x2160 GeForce GTX 980 Ti: Processor: Intel Xeon E3-1280 v5 @ 4.00GHz (8 Cores), Motherboard: MSI C236A WORKSTATION (MS-7998) v1.0, Chipset: Intel Sky Lake, Memory: 16384MB, Disk: 120GB Samsung SSD 850, Graphics: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 Ti 6141MB (999/3505MHz), Audio: Realtek ALC1150, Network: Intel Connection OS: Ubuntu 16.04, Kernel: 4.4.0-22-generic (x86_64), Desktop: Unity 7.4.0, Display Server: X Server 1.18.3, Display Driver: NVIDIA 367.18, OpenGL: 4.5.0, Vulkan: 1.0.8, Compiler: GCC 5.3.1 20160413, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 3840x2160 Dota 2 CPU Usage (Summary) Monitor Percent < Lower Is Better Radeon R9 285 ...... MIN: 0.5 AVG: 31.1 MAX: 44.1 Radeon R9 290 ...... MIN: 1.0 AVG: 30.7 MAX: 45.4 GeForce GTX 780 Ti . MIN: 0.0 AVG: 31.8 MAX: 41.8 GeForce GTX 960 .... MIN: 0.0 AVG: 28.9 MAX: 39.3 GeForce GTX 970 .... MIN: 0.0 AVG: 33.5 MAX: 43.1 GeForce GTX 980 .... MIN: 0.0 AVG: 34.2 MAX: 44.0 GeForce GTX 980 Ti . MIN: 0.5 AVG: 33.8 MAX: 44.6 Dota 2 Resolution: 3840 x 2160 - Renderer: OpenGL Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better Radeon R9 285 ...... 99.37 |=========================== Radeon R9 290 ...... 96.67 |========================== Radeon R9 Fury ..... 112.37 |=============================== GeForce GTX 780 Ti . 82.00 |====================== GeForce GTX 960 .... 51.10 |============== GeForce GTX 970 .... 89.70 |======================== GeForce GTX 980 .... 100.23 |=========================== GeForce GTX 980 Ti . 184.03 |================================================== Dota 2 Resolution: 3840 x 2160 - Renderer: Vulkan Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better Radeon R9 285 ...... 76.73 |========================== Radeon R9 290 ...... 62.57 |===================== Radeon R9 Fury ..... 96.95 |================================= GeForce GTX 780 Ti . 63.45 |===================== GeForce GTX 970 .... 59.13 |==================== GeForce GTX 980 .... 66.63 |====================== GeForce GTX 980 Ti . 148.23 |================================================== Dota 2 CPU Usage (Summary) Monitor Percent < Lower Is Better Radeon R9 285 ...... MIN: 0.5 AVG: 17.1 MAX: 34.6 Radeon R9 290 ...... MIN: 1.0 AVG: 17.4 MAX: 37.5 GeForce GTX 780 Ti . MIN: 0.0 AVG: 12.2 MAX: 38.6 GeForce GTX 970 .... MIN: 0.5 AVG: 14.7 MAX: 23.8 GeForce GTX 980 .... MIN: 0.8 AVG: 15.0 MAX: 32.8 GeForce GTX 980 Ti . MIN: 2.0 AVG: 20.0 MAX: 51.1 Dota 2 GPU Usage Monitor Percent < Lower Is Better GeForce GTX 780 Ti . MIN: 1 AVG: 75 MAX: 100 GeForce GTX 970 .... MIN: 1 AVG: 87 MAX: 100 GeForce GTX 980 .... MIN: 2 AVG: 88 MAX: 100 GeForce GTX 980 Ti . MIN: 1 AVG: 86 MAX: 99 Dota 2 GPU Usage Monitor Percent < Lower Is Better GeForce GTX 780 Ti . MIN: 1 AVG: 90 MAX: 100 GeForce GTX 960 .... MIN: 1 AVG: 91 MAX: 100 GeForce GTX 970 .... MIN: 2 AVG: 94 MAX: 100 GeForce GTX 980 .... MIN: 1 AVG: 89 MAX: 100 GeForce GTX 980 Ti . MIN: 1 AVG: 79 MAX: 99 GPU Usage Monitor Phoronix Test Suite System Monitoring Percent GeForce GTX 780 Ti . MIN: 1 AVG: 82 MAX: 100 GeForce GTX 970 .... MIN: 1 AVG: 90 MAX: 100 GeForce GTX 980 .... MIN: 1 AVG: 88 MAX: 100 GeForce GTX 980 Ti . MIN: 1 AVG: 81 MAX: 99 CPU Usage (Summary) Monitor Phoronix Test Suite System Monitoring Percent Radeon R9 285 ...... MIN: 0.3 AVG: 22.6 MAX: 44.1 Radeon R9 290 ...... MIN: 0.3 AVG: 22.5 MAX: 45.4 GeForce GTX 780 Ti . MIN: 0.0 AVG: 20.6 MAX: 41.8 GeForce GTX 970 .... MIN: 0.0 AVG: 22.5 MAX: 43.1 GeForce GTX 980 .... MIN: 0.0 AVG: 22.9 MAX: 44.0 GeForce GTX 980 Ti . MIN: 0.0 AVG: 25.2 MAX: 51.1