Radeon vs. NVIDIA Serious Sam 2017 Linux Gaming Tests Serious Sam 2017 Fusion. Tests by Michael Larabel for a future article on Phoronix of Radeon vs. NVIDIA GPUs Vulkan. Radeon RX 480: Processor: Intel Core i7-7700K @ 4.50GHz (8 Cores), Motherboard: MSI Z270-A PRO (MS-7A71) v1.0, Chipset: Intel Device 591f, Memory: 16384MB, Disk: Samsung SSD 950 PRO 256GB, Graphics: AMD Radeon RX 470/480 8192MB, Audio: Realtek ALC892, Monitor: Acer B286HK, Network: Realtek RTL8111/8168/8411 OS: Ubuntu 16.10, Kernel: 4.11.0-999-generic (x86_64) 20170320, Desktop: Unity 7.5.0, Display Server: X Server 1.18.4, Display Driver: amdgpu 1.3.0, OpenGL: 4.5 Mesa 17.1.0-devel- padoka PPA Gallium 0.4 (LLVM 5.0.0), Vulkan: 1.0.21, Compiler: GCC 6.2.0 20161005, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 3840x2160 Radeon R9 Fury: Processor: Intel Core i7-7700K @ 4.50GHz (8 Cores), Motherboard: MSI Z270-A PRO (MS-7A71) v1.0, Chipset: Intel Device 591f, Memory: 16384MB, Disk: Samsung SSD 950 PRO 256GB, Graphics: Sapphire AMD Radeon R9 FURY / NANO 4096MB, Audio: Realtek ALC892, Monitor: Acer B286HK, Network: Realtek RTL8111/8168/8411 OS: Ubuntu 16.10, Kernel: 4.11.0-999-generic (x86_64) 20170320, Desktop: Unity 7.5.0, Display Server: X Server 1.18.4, Display Driver: modesetting 1.18.4, OpenGL: 4.5 Mesa 17.1.0-devel- padoka PPA Gallium 0.4 (LLVM 5.0.0), Vulkan: 1.0.21, Compiler: GCC 6.2.0 20161005, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 3840x2160 GeForce GTX 780 Ti: Processor: Intel Core i7-7700K @ 4.50GHz (8 Cores), Motherboard: MSI Z270-A PRO (MS-7A71) v1.0, Chipset: Intel Device 591f, Memory: 16384MB, Disk: Samsung SSD 950 PRO 256GB, Graphics: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 780 Ti 3072MB (875/3500MHz), Audio: Realtek ALC892, Network: Realtek RTL8111/8168/8411 OS: Ubuntu 16.10, Kernel: 4.8.0-41-generic (x86_64), Desktop: Unity 7.5.0, Display Server: X Server 1.18.4, Display Driver: NVIDIA 375.27.14, OpenGL: 4.5.0, Vulkan: 1.0.21, Compiler: GCC 6.2.0 20161005, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 3840x2160 GeForce GTX 970: Processor: Intel Core i7-7700K @ 4.50GHz (8 Cores), Motherboard: MSI Z270-A PRO (MS-7A71) v1.0, Chipset: Intel Device 591f, Memory: 16384MB, Disk: Samsung SSD 950 PRO 256GB, Graphics: eVGA NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970 4096MB (1163/3505MHz), Audio: Realtek ALC892, Network: Realtek RTL8111/8168/8411 OS: Ubuntu 16.10, Kernel: 4.8.0-41-generic (x86_64), Desktop: Unity 7.5.0, Display Server: X Server 1.18.4, Display Driver: NVIDIA 375.27.14, OpenGL: 4.5.0, Vulkan: 1.0.21, Compiler: GCC 6.2.0 20161005, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 3840x2160 GeForce GTX 980: Processor: Intel Core i7-7700K @ 4.50GHz (8 Cores), Motherboard: MSI Z270-A PRO (MS-7A71) v1.0, Chipset: Intel Device 591f, Memory: 16384MB, Disk: Samsung SSD 950 PRO 256GB, Graphics: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 4096MB (1126/3505MHz), Audio: Realtek ALC892, Network: Realtek RTL8111/8168/8411 OS: Ubuntu 16.10, Kernel: 4.8.0-41-generic (x86_64), Desktop: Unity 7.5.0, Display Server: X Server 1.18.4, Display Driver: NVIDIA 375.27.14, OpenGL: 4.5.0, Vulkan: 1.0.21, Compiler: GCC 6.2.0 20161005, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 3840x2160 GeForce GTX 980 Ti: Processor: Intel Core i7-7700K @ 4.50GHz (8 Cores), Motherboard: MSI Z270-A PRO (MS-7A71) v1.0, Chipset: Intel Device 591f, Memory: 16384MB, Disk: Samsung SSD 950 PRO 256GB, Graphics: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 Ti 6144MB (999/3505MHz), Audio: Realtek ALC892, Network: Realtek RTL8111/8168/8411 OS: Ubuntu 16.10, Kernel: 4.8.0-41-generic (x86_64), Desktop: Unity 7.5.0, Display Server: X Server 1.18.4, Display Driver: NVIDIA 375.27.14, OpenGL: 4.5.0, Vulkan: 1.0.21, Compiler: GCC 6.2.0 20161005, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 3840x2160 GeForce GTX 1050: Processor: Intel Core i7-7700K @ 4.50GHz (8 Cores), Motherboard: MSI Z270-A PRO (MS-7A71) v1.0, Chipset: Intel Device 591f, Memory: 16384MB, Disk: Samsung SSD 950 PRO 256GB, Graphics: Zotac NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 2048MB (1316/3504MHz), Audio: Realtek ALC892, Network: Realtek RTL8111/8168/8411 OS: Ubuntu 16.10, Kernel: 4.8.0-41-generic (x86_64), Desktop: Unity 7.5.0, Display Server: X Server 1.18.4, Display Driver: NVIDIA 375.27.14, OpenGL: 4.5.0, Vulkan: 1.0.21, Compiler: GCC 6.2.0 20161005, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 3840x2160 GeForce GTX 1050 Ti: Processor: Intel Core i7-7700K @ 4.50GHz (8 Cores), Motherboard: MSI Z270-A PRO (MS-7A71) v1.0, Chipset: Intel Device 591f, Memory: 16384MB, Disk: Samsung SSD 950 PRO 256GB, Graphics: eVGA NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 Ti 4096MB (1341/3504MHz), Audio: Realtek ALC892, Network: Realtek RTL8111/8168/8411 OS: Ubuntu 16.10, Kernel: 4.8.0-41-generic (x86_64), Desktop: Unity 7.5.0, Display Server: X Server 1.18.4, Display Driver: NVIDIA 375.27.14, OpenGL: 4.5.0, Vulkan: 1.0.21, Compiler: GCC 6.2.0 20161005, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 3840x2160 GeForce GTX 1060: Processor: Intel Core i7-7700K @ 4.50GHz (8 Cores), Motherboard: MSI Z270-A PRO (MS-7A71) v1.0, Chipset: Intel Device 591f, Memory: 16384MB, Disk: Samsung SSD 950 PRO 256GB, Graphics: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 6GB 6144MB (1505/4006MHz), Audio: Realtek ALC892, Network: Realtek RTL8111/8168/8411 OS: Ubuntu 16.10, Kernel: 4.8.0-41-generic (x86_64), Desktop: Unity 7.5.0, Display Server: X Server 1.18.4, Display Driver: NVIDIA 375.27.14, OpenGL: 4.5.0, Vulkan: 1.0.21, Compiler: GCC 6.2.0 20161005, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 3840x2160 GeForce GTX 1070: Processor: Intel Core i7-7700K @ 4.50GHz (8 Cores), Motherboard: MSI Z270-A PRO (MS-7A71) v1.0, Chipset: Intel Device 591f, Memory: 16384MB, Disk: Samsung SSD 950 PRO 256GB, Graphics: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070 8192MB (1505/4006MHz), Audio: Realtek ALC892, Network: Realtek RTL8111/8168/8411 OS: Ubuntu 16.10, Kernel: 4.8.0-41-generic (x86_64), Desktop: Unity 7.5.0, Display Server: X Server 1.18.4, Display Driver: NVIDIA 375.27.14, OpenGL: 4.5.0, Vulkan: 1.0.21, Compiler: GCC 6.2.0 20161005, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 3840x2160 GeForce GTX 1080: Processor: Intel Core i7-7700K @ 4.50GHz (8 Cores), Motherboard: MSI Z270-A PRO (MS-7A71) v1.0, Chipset: Intel Device 591f, Memory: 16384MB, Disk: Samsung SSD 950 PRO 256GB, Graphics: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 8192MB (1602/5005MHz), Audio: Realtek ALC892, Network: Realtek RTL8111/8168/8411 OS: Ubuntu 16.10, Kernel: 4.8.0-41-generic (x86_64), Desktop: Unity 7.5.0, Display Server: X Server 1.18.4, Display Driver: NVIDIA 375.27.14, OpenGL: 4.5.0, Vulkan: 1.0.21, Compiler: GCC 6.2.0 20161005, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 3840x2160 GeForce GTX 1080 Ti: Processor: Intel Core i7-7700K @ 4.50GHz (8 Cores), Motherboard: MSI Z270-A PRO (MS-7A71) v1.0, Chipset: Intel Device 591f, Memory: 16384MB, Disk: Samsung SSD 950 PRO 256GB, Graphics: unknown board 11264MB (1475/5508MHz), Audio: Realtek ALC892, Network: Realtek RTL8111/8168/8411 OS: Ubuntu 16.10, Kernel: 4.8.0-41-generic (x86_64), Desktop: Unity 7.5.0, Display Server: X Server 1.18.4, Display Driver: NVIDIA 375.27.14, OpenGL: 4.5.0, Vulkan: 1.0.21, Compiler: GCC 6.2.0 20161005, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 3840x2160 Serious Sam Fusion 2017 Resolution: 1920 x 1080 - Quality: Low - Renderer: Vulkan Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better Radeon RX 480 ....... 421.73 |========================= Radeon R9 Fury ...... 440.00 |========================== GeForce GTX 780 Ti .. 536.70 |================================ GeForce GTX 970 ..... 505.93 |============================== GeForce GTX 980 ..... 566.30 |================================== GeForce GTX 980 Ti .. 694.57 |========================================== GeForce GTX 1050 .... 316.15 |=================== GeForce GTX 1050 Ti . 358.05 |===================== GeForce GTX 1060 .... 555.87 |================================= GeForce GTX 1070 .... 710.95 |=========================================== GeForce GTX 1080 .... 773.53 |============================================== GeForce GTX 1080 Ti . 816.40 |================================================= Serious Sam Fusion 2017 Resolution: 1920 x 1080 - Quality: High - Renderer: Vulkan Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better Radeon RX 480 ....... 127.40 |=============== Radeon R9 Fury ...... 163.93 |=================== GeForce GTX 780 Ti .. 183.87 |===================== GeForce GTX 970 ..... 167.07 |=================== GeForce GTX 980 ..... 190.50 |====================== GeForce GTX 980 Ti .. 234.37 |=========================== GeForce GTX 1050 .... 102.27 |============ GeForce GTX 1050 Ti . 117.85 |============== GeForce GTX 1060 .... 195.80 |======================= GeForce GTX 1070 .... 273.17 |=============================== GeForce GTX 1080 .... 326.80 |====================================== GeForce GTX 1080 Ti . 425.87 |================================================= Serious Sam Fusion 2017 Resolution: 1920 x 1080 - Quality: Ultra - Renderer: Vulkan Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better Radeon RX 480 ....... 97.83 |=============== Radeon R9 Fury ...... 123.67 |=================== GeForce GTX 780 Ti .. 138.70 |===================== GeForce GTX 970 ..... 126.43 |=================== GeForce GTX 980 ..... 143.20 |====================== GeForce GTX 980 Ti .. 179.50 |=========================== GeForce GTX 1050 .... 76.47 |=========== GeForce GTX 1050 Ti . 88.03 |============= GeForce GTX 1060 .... 145.55 |====================== GeForce GTX 1070 .... 200.97 |============================== GeForce GTX 1080 .... 247.03 |===================================== GeForce GTX 1080 Ti . 326.20 |================================================= Serious Sam Fusion 2017 Resolution: 3840 x 2160 - Quality: Low - Renderer: Vulkan Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better Radeon RX 480 ....... 142.60 |================== Radeon R9 Fury ...... 175.40 |====================== GeForce GTX 780 Ti .. 176.90 |====================== GeForce GTX 970 ..... 156.30 |==================== GeForce GTX 980 ..... 177.57 |====================== GeForce GTX 980 Ti .. 223.48 |============================ GeForce GTX 1050 .... 95.57 |============ GeForce GTX 1050 Ti . 103.25 |============= GeForce GTX 1060 .... 171.33 |====================== GeForce GTX 1070 .... 233.33 |============================= GeForce GTX 1080 .... 287.43 |==================================== GeForce GTX 1080 Ti . 388.73 |================================================= Serious Sam Fusion 2017 Resolution: 3840 x 2160 - Quality: High - Renderer: OpenGL Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better Radeon RX 480 ....... 45.13 |================== Radeon R9 Fury ...... 59.75 |======================== GeForce GTX 780 Ti .. 58.27 |======================= GeForce GTX 970 ..... 52.63 |===================== GeForce GTX 980 ..... 59.50 |======================== GeForce GTX 980 Ti .. 72.53 |============================= GeForce GTX 1050 .... 31.13 |============ GeForce GTX 1050 Ti . 35.23 |============== GeForce GTX 1060 .... 58.63 |======================= GeForce GTX 1070 .... 79.67 |================================ GeForce GTX 1080 .... 97.23 |======================================= GeForce GTX 1080 Ti . 123.57 |================================================= Serious Sam Fusion 2017 Resolution: 3840 x 2160 - Quality: High - Renderer: Vulkan Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better Radeon RX 480 ....... 40.53 |=============== Radeon R9 Fury ...... 59.23 |====================== GeForce GTX 780 Ti .. 54.43 |==================== GeForce GTX 970 ..... 48.80 |================== GeForce GTX 980 ..... 55.50 |===================== GeForce GTX 980 Ti .. 70.97 |=========================== GeForce GTX 1050 .... 32.83 |============ GeForce GTX 1050 Ti . 32.00 |============ GeForce GTX 1060 .... 55.50 |===================== GeForce GTX 1070 .... 78.87 |============================== GeForce GTX 1080 .... 96.53 |==================================== GeForce GTX 1080 Ti . 130.77 |================================================= Serious Sam Fusion 2017 Resolution: 3840 x 2160 - Quality: Ultra - Renderer: OpenGL Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better Radeon RX 480 ....... 35.57 |================== Radeon R9 Fury ...... 51.73 |========================== GeForce GTX 780 Ti .. 46.70 |======================== GeForce GTX 970 ..... 41.30 |===================== GeForce GTX 980 ..... 46.53 |======================== GeForce GTX 980 Ti .. 56.83 |============================= GeForce GTX 1050 .... 16.80 |========= GeForce GTX 1050 Ti . 27.93 |============== GeForce GTX 1060 .... 45.50 |======================= GeForce GTX 1070 .... 62.23 |================================ GeForce GTX 1080 .... 76.30 |======================================= GeForce GTX 1080 Ti . 98.33 |================================================== Serious Sam Fusion 2017 Resolution: 3840 x 2160 - Quality: Ultra - Renderer: Vulkan Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better Radeon RX 480 ....... 31.73 |================ Radeon R9 Fury ...... 45.83 |======================= GeForce GTX 780 Ti .. 41.77 |===================== GeForce GTX 970 ..... 36.73 |=================== GeForce GTX 980 ..... 41.90 |===================== GeForce GTX 980 Ti .. 53.30 |=========================== GeForce GTX 1050 Ti . 24.03 |============ GeForce GTX 1060 .... 40.30 |==================== GeForce GTX 1070 .... 58.83 |============================== GeForce GTX 1080 .... 71.23 |==================================== GeForce GTX 1080 Ti . 98.65 |==================================================