amd AMD Phenom II X4 965 testing with a MSI 790FX-GD70 (MS-7577) v1.0 and AMD Radeon HD 7970/8970 OEM / R9 280X 3072MB on Ubuntu 16.04 via the Phoronix Test Suite. 6990: Processor: AMD Phenom II X4 965 @ 3.40GHz (4 Cores), Motherboard: MSI 790FX-GD70 (MS-7577) v1.0, Chipset: AMD RD790 + SB7x0/SB8x0/SB9x0, Memory: 8192MB, Disk: 750GB Western Digital WD7502AAEX-0 + 320GB MAXTOR STM332061, Graphics: ASUS AMD Radeon HD 6990 2048MB, Audio: Realtek ALC889, Monitor: 1943W, Network: Realtek RTL8111/8168/8411 OS: Ubuntu 16.04, Kernel: 4.4.0-45-generic (x86_64), Desktop: GNOME, Display Server: X Server 1.18.4, Display Driver: modesetting 1.18.4, OpenGL: 4.1 Mesa 13.1.0-devel- padoka PPA Gallium 0.4, Vulkan: 1.0.8, Compiler: GCC 5.4.0 20160609, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 1366x768 7970: Processor: AMD Phenom II X4 965 @ 3.40GHz (4 Cores), Motherboard: MSI 790FX-GD70 (MS-7577) v1.0, Chipset: AMD RD790 + SB7x0/SB8x0/SB9x0, Memory: 8192MB, Disk: 750GB Western Digital WD7502AAEX-0 + 320GB MAXTOR STM332061, Graphics: AMD Radeon HD 7970/8970 OEM / R9 280X 3072MB, Audio: Realtek ALC889, Monitor: 1943W, Network: Realtek RTL8111/8168/8411 OS: Ubuntu 16.04, Kernel: 4.4.0-45-generic (x86_64), Desktop: GNOME, Display Server: X Server 1.18.4, Display Driver: modesetting 1.18.4, OpenGL: 4.2 Mesa 13.1.0-devel- padoka PPA Gallium 0.4, Vulkan: 1.0.8, Compiler: GCC 5.4.0 20160609, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 1366x768 Company of Heroes 2 Resolution: 1024 x 768 - Graphics Preset: Medium Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better 6990 . 18.42 |================================================================= 7970 . 18.50 |================================================================= Counter-Strike: Global Offensive Resolution: 1366 x 768 Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better 6990 . 57.46 |========================================= 7970 . 90.35 |================================================================= DiRT Showdown Resolution: 1366 x 768 - Graphics Preset: High - Multi-Sampling: 2x MSAA Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better 6990 . 55.97 |======================================================== 7970 . 64.55 |================================================================= Metro 2033 Redux Phoronix Test Suite v6.4.0 Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better 6990 . 34.28 |============================================== 7970 . 48.41 |================================================================= The Talos Principle Renderer: OpenGL - Resolution: 1366 x 768 Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better 6990 . 23.97 |======================================= 7970 . 39.48 |================================================================= Unigine Valley 1.0 Resolution: 1366 x 768 - Mode: Fullscreen Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better 6990 . 32.80 |=========================================== 7970 . 49.62 |=================================================================