Radeon RX 480 Compared To HD 4000 RV770
Radeon RX 480 Polaris to Radeon HD 4850/4870 performance-per-Watt comparison! Tests with latest open-source driver on Ubuntu 16.04 base. Tests by Michael Larabel for a future article on Phoronix.
Radeon RX 480
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: Samsung SSD 950 PRO 256GB, Graphics: AMD Radeon RX 480 8192MB, Audio: Realtek ALC1150, Monitor: Acer B286HK, Network: Intel Connection
OS: Ubuntu 16.04, Kernel: 4.7.0-rc2-polaris-test (x86_64) 20160625, Desktop: Unity 7.4.0, Display Server: X Server 1.18.3, Display Driver: amdgpu 1.1.99, OpenGL: 4.3 Mesa 12.1.0-devel- padoka PPA (git-6b0ac95) Gallium 0.4, Compiler: GCC 5.3.1 20160413, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 1920x1080
Processor Notes: Scaling Governor: intel_pstate performance
Graphics Notes: GLAMOR
Radeon HD 7950
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: Samsung SSD 950 PRO 256GB, Graphics: XFX AMD Radeon HD 7950/8950 OEM / R9 280 3072MB, Audio: Realtek ALC1150, Monitor: Acer B286HK, Network: Intel Connection
OS: Ubuntu 16.04, Kernel: 4.7.0-rc2-polaris-test (x86_64) 20160625, Desktop: Unity 7.4.0, Display Server: X Server 1.18.3, Display Driver: modesetting 1.18.3, OpenGL: 4.3 Mesa 12.1.0-devel- padoka PPA (git-6b0ac95) Gallium 0.4, Compiler: GCC 5.3.1 20160413, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 1920x1080
Radeon HD 6950
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: Samsung SSD 950 PRO 256GB, Graphics: Sapphire AMD Radeon HD 6950 2048MB, Audio: Realtek ALC1150, Monitor: Acer B286HK, Network: Intel Connection
OS: Ubuntu 16.04, Kernel: 4.7.0-rc2-polaris-test (x86_64) 20160625, Desktop: Unity 7.4.0, Display Server: X Server 1.18.3, Display Driver: modesetting 1.18.3, OpenGL: 4.1 Mesa 12.1.0-devel- padoka PPA (git-6b0ac95) Gallium 0.4, Compiler: GCC 5.3.1 20160413, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 1920x1080
Processor Notes: Scaling Governor: intel_pstate performance
Graphics Notes: EXA
Radeon HD 5830
Changed Graphics to Sapphire AMD Radeon HD 5830 1024MB.
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: Samsung SSD 950 PRO 256GB, Graphics: XFX AMD Radeon R9 285/380 2048MB, Audio: Realtek ALC1150, Monitor: Acer B286HK, Network: Intel Connection
OS: Ubuntu 16.04, Kernel: 4.7.0-rc2-polaris-test (x86_64) 20160625, Desktop: Unity 7.4.0, Display Server: X Server 1.18.3, Display Driver: modesetting 1.18.3, OpenGL: 4.3 Mesa 12.1.0-devel- padoka PPA (git-6b0ac95) Gallium 0.4, Compiler: GCC 5.3.1 20160413, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 1920x1080
Processor Notes: Scaling Governor: intel_pstate performance
Graphics Notes: GLAMOR
Radeon HD 6870
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: Samsung SSD 950 PRO 256GB, Graphics: Sapphire AMD Radeon HD 6870 1024MB, Audio: Realtek ALC1150, Monitor: Acer B286HK, Network: Intel Connection
OS: Ubuntu 16.04, Kernel: 4.7.0-rc2-polaris-test (x86_64) 20160625, Desktop: Unity 7.4.0, Display Server: X Server 1.18.3, Display Driver: modesetting 1.18.3, OpenGL: 3.3 Mesa 12.1.0-devel- padoka PPA (git-6b0ac95) Gallium 0.4, Compiler: GCC 5.3.1 20160413, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 1920x1080
Processor Notes: Scaling Governor: intel_pstate performance
Graphics Notes: EXA
Radeon HD 4870
Changed Graphics to AMD Radeon HD 4870 512MB.
Radeon HD 4850
Changed Graphics to AMD Radeon HD 4850 512MB.
System Power Consumption Monitor
GPU Temperature Monitor
Unigine Valley
Unigine Heaven
GpuTest
Tesseract
Xonotic
Metro: Last Light Redux
Metro 2033 Redux
Portal
Insurgency
Dota 2
Team Fortress 2
Counter-Strike: Global Offensive
Radeon RX 480
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: Samsung SSD 950 PRO 256GB, Graphics: AMD Radeon RX 480 8192MB, Audio: Realtek ALC1150, Monitor: Acer B286HK, Network: Intel Connection
OS: Ubuntu 16.04, Kernel: 4.7.0-rc2-polaris-test (x86_64) 20160625, Desktop: Unity 7.4.0, Display Server: X Server 1.18.3, Display Driver: amdgpu 1.1.99, OpenGL: 4.3 Mesa 12.1.0-devel- padoka PPA (git-6b0ac95) Gallium 0.4, Compiler: GCC 5.3.1 20160413, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 1920x1080
Processor Notes: Scaling Governor: intel_pstate performance
Graphics Notes: GLAMOR
Testing initiated at 29 June 2016 10:59 by user pts.
Radeon HD 7950
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: Samsung SSD 950 PRO 256GB, Graphics: XFX AMD Radeon HD 7950/8950 OEM / R9 280 3072MB, Audio: Realtek ALC1150, Monitor: Acer B286HK, Network: Intel Connection
OS: Ubuntu 16.04, Kernel: 4.7.0-rc2-polaris-test (x86_64) 20160625, Desktop: Unity 7.4.0, Display Server: X Server 1.18.3, Display Driver: modesetting 1.18.3, OpenGL: 4.3 Mesa 12.1.0-devel- padoka PPA (git-6b0ac95) Gallium 0.4, Compiler: GCC 5.3.1 20160413, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 1920x1080
Processor Notes: Scaling Governor: intel_pstate performance
Graphics Notes: GLAMOR
Testing initiated at 29 June 2016 15:09 by user pts.
Radeon HD 6950
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: Samsung SSD 950 PRO 256GB, Graphics: Sapphire AMD Radeon HD 6950 2048MB, Audio: Realtek ALC1150, Monitor: Acer B286HK, Network: Intel Connection
OS: Ubuntu 16.04, Kernel: 4.7.0-rc2-polaris-test (x86_64) 20160625, Desktop: Unity 7.4.0, Display Server: X Server 1.18.3, Display Driver: modesetting 1.18.3, OpenGL: 4.1 Mesa 12.1.0-devel- padoka PPA (git-6b0ac95) Gallium 0.4, Compiler: GCC 5.3.1 20160413, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 1920x1080
Processor Notes: Scaling Governor: intel_pstate performance
Graphics Notes: EXA
Testing initiated at 29 June 2016 16:41 by user pts.
Radeon HD 5830
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: Samsung SSD 950 PRO 256GB, Graphics: Sapphire AMD Radeon HD 5830 1024MB, Audio: Realtek ALC1150, Monitor: Acer B286HK, Network: Intel Connection
OS: Ubuntu 16.04, Kernel: 4.7.0-rc2-polaris-test (x86_64) 20160625, Desktop: Unity 7.4.0, Display Server: X Server 1.18.3, Display Driver: modesetting 1.18.3, OpenGL: 4.1 Mesa 12.1.0-devel- padoka PPA (git-6b0ac95) Gallium 0.4, Compiler: GCC 5.3.1 20160413, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 1920x1080
Processor Notes: Scaling Governor: intel_pstate performance
Graphics Notes: EXA
Testing initiated at 29 June 2016 17:42 by user pts.
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: Samsung SSD 950 PRO 256GB, Graphics: XFX AMD Radeon R9 285/380 2048MB, Audio: Realtek ALC1150, Monitor: Acer B286HK, Network: Intel Connection
OS: Ubuntu 16.04, Kernel: 4.7.0-rc2-polaris-test (x86_64) 20160625, Desktop: Unity 7.4.0, Display Server: X Server 1.18.3, Display Driver: modesetting 1.18.3, OpenGL: 4.3 Mesa 12.1.0-devel- padoka PPA (git-6b0ac95) Gallium 0.4, Compiler: GCC 5.3.1 20160413, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 1920x1080
Processor Notes: Scaling Governor: intel_pstate performance
Graphics Notes: GLAMOR
Testing initiated at 29 June 2016 19:08 by user phoronix.
Radeon HD 6870
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: Samsung SSD 950 PRO 256GB, Graphics: Sapphire AMD Radeon HD 6870 1024MB, Audio: Realtek ALC1150, Monitor: Acer B286HK, Network: Intel Connection
OS: Ubuntu 16.04, Kernel: 4.7.0-rc2-polaris-test (x86_64) 20160625, Desktop: Unity 7.4.0, Display Server: X Server 1.18.3, Display Driver: modesetting 1.18.3, OpenGL: 3.3 Mesa 12.1.0-devel- padoka PPA (git-6b0ac95) Gallium 0.4, Compiler: GCC 5.3.1 20160413, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 1920x1080
Processor Notes: Scaling Governor: intel_pstate performance
Graphics Notes: EXA
Testing initiated at 30 June 2016 07:18 by user phoronix.
Radeon HD 4870
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: Samsung SSD 950 PRO 256GB, Graphics: AMD Radeon HD 4870 512MB, Audio: Realtek ALC1150, Monitor: Acer B286HK, Network: Intel Connection
OS: Ubuntu 16.04, Kernel: 4.7.0-rc2-polaris-test (x86_64) 20160625, Desktop: Unity 7.4.0, Display Server: X Server 1.18.3, Display Driver: modesetting 1.18.3, OpenGL: 3.3 Mesa 12.1.0-devel- padoka PPA (git-6b0ac95) Gallium 0.4, Compiler: GCC 5.3.1 20160413, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 1920x1080
Processor Notes: Scaling Governor: intel_pstate performance
Graphics Notes: EXA
Testing initiated at 30 June 2016 08:12 by user phoronix.
Radeon HD 4850
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: Samsung SSD 950 PRO 256GB, Graphics: AMD Radeon HD 4850 512MB, Audio: Realtek ALC1150, Monitor: Acer B286HK, Network: Intel Connection
OS: Ubuntu 16.04, Kernel: 4.7.0-rc2-polaris-test (x86_64) 20160625, Desktop: Unity 7.4.0, Display Server: X Server 1.18.3, Display Driver: modesetting 1.18.3, OpenGL: 3.3 Mesa 12.1.0-devel- padoka PPA (git-6b0ac95) Gallium 0.4, Compiler: GCC 5.3.1 20160413, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 1920x1080
Processor Notes: Scaling Governor: intel_pstate performance
Graphics Notes: EXA
Testing initiated at 30 June 2016 09:35 by user phoronix.