old gpu vs new AMD FX-8320 Eight-Core testing with a ASUS SABERTOOTH 990FX R2.0 and eVGA NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070 8192MB on Arch rolling via the Phoronix Test Suite. GTX 660Ti: Processor: AMD FX-8320 Eight-Core @ 4.30GHz (8 Cores), Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-970A-D3, Chipset: AMD RD890 bridge, Memory: 16384MB, Disk: 2 x 2000GB Seagate ST2000DM001-1CH1 + 120GB Samsung SSD 840 + 2000GB Seagate ST2000DM001-1ER1, Graphics: ASUS NVIDIA GeForce GTX 660 Ti 2048MB (967/3004MHz), Audio: AMD SBx00 Azalia, Monitor: GRUNDIG WUXGA + ViewSonic VA2431, Network: Realtek RTL8111/8168/8411 OS: Arch rolling, Kernel: 3.18.7-2-ck (x86_64), Desktop: KDE 4.14.5, Display Driver: NVIDIA 346.35, OpenGL: 4.5.0 NVIDIA 346.35, Compiler: GCC 4.9.2 20150204, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 3840x1080 GTX 970: Processor: AMD FX-8320 Eight-Core @ 4.30GHz (8 Cores), Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-970A-D3, Chipset: AMD RD890 bridge, Memory: 16384MB, Disk: 2 x 2000GB Seagate ST2000DM001-1CH1 + 120GB Samsung SSD 840 + 2000GB Seagate ST2000DM001-1ER1, Graphics: ASUS NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970 4096MB (405/324MHz), Audio: AMD SBx00 Azalia, Monitor: GRUNDIG WUXGA + ViewSonic VA2431, Network: Realtek RTL8111/8168/8411 OS: Arch rolling, Kernel: 3.18.7-2-ck (x86_64), Display Driver: NVIDIA 346.35, OpenGL: 4.5.0 NVIDIA 346.35, Compiler: GCC 4.9.2 20150204, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 3840x1080 GTX 970 with 352.09: Processor: AMD FX-8320 Eight-Core @ 4.20GHz (8 Cores), Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-970A-D3, Chipset: AMD RD890 bridge, Memory: 16384MB, Disk: 2 x 2000GB Seagate ST2000DM001-1CH1 + 120GB Samsung SSD 840 + 2000GB Seagate ST2000DM001-1ER1, Graphics: ASUS NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970 4096MB (1113/3505MHz), Audio: AMD SBx00 Azalia, Network: Realtek RTL8111/8168/8411 OS: Arch rolling, Kernel: 4.0.4-2-ARCH (x86_64), Desktop: MATE 1.8.2, Display Driver: NVIDIA 352.09, OpenGL: 4.4.0, Compiler: GCC 5.1.0, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 3840x1080 sterky - GTX 560 Ti asus: Processor: AMD FX-8320 Eight-Core @ 4.20GHz (8 Cores), Motherboard: Gigabyte 990XA-UD3, Chipset: AMD RD890 bridge, Memory: 16384MB, Disk: 128GB Samsung SSD 840 + 4001GB Seagate ST4000DM000-1F21, Graphics: ASUS NVIDIA GeForce GTX 560 Ti 1024MB (822/2004MHz), Audio: Realtek ALC889, Network: Realtek RTL8111/8168/8411 OS: Arch rolling, Kernel: 4.1.4-1-ARCH (x86_64), Desktop: MATE 1.10.1, Display Driver: NVIDIA 352.30, OpenGL: 4.4.0, Compiler: GCC 5.2.0 + Clang 3.6.2 + LLVM 3.6.2, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 3520x1200 GTX 1070 EVGA SC - sterky: Processor: AMD FX-8320 Eight-Core @ 4.60GHz (8 Cores), Motherboard: ASUS SABERTOOTH 990FX R2.0, Chipset: AMD RD890 bridge, Memory: 16384MB, Disk: 128GB Samsung SSD 840 + 4001GB Seagate ST4000DM000-1F21 + 256GB SAMSUNG MZVPV256HDGL-00000, Graphics: eVGA NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070 8192MB (1592/4006MHz), Audio: NVIDIA GP104 HD Audio, Monitor: ROG PG279Q, Network: Realtek RTL8111/8168/8411 OS: Arch rolling, Kernel: 4.7.0-1-ck (x86_64), Desktop: MATE 1.14.1, Display Driver: NVIDIA 367.35, OpenGL: 4.5.0, Vulkan: 1.0.21, Compiler: GCC 6.1.1 20160802 + Clang 3.8.1, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 4480x1440 Unigine Heaven 4.0 Resolution: 1920 x 1080 - Mode: Fullscreen Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better GTX 660Ti ................. 31.14 |=========== GTX 970 ................... 74.50 |========================= GTX 970 with 352.09 ....... 81.35 |=========================== sterky - GTX 560 Ti asus .. 26.03 |========= GTX 1070 EVGA SC - sterky . 127.35 |=========================================== Unigine Valley 1.0 Resolution: 1920 x 1080 - Mode: Fullscreen Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better GTX 660Ti ................. 49.01 |=========================== GTX 970 ................... 71.68 |======================================= GTX 970 with 352.09 ....... 72.72 |======================================== sterky - GTX 560 Ti asus .. 30.17 |================ GTX 1070 EVGA SC - sterky . 80.65 |============================================