Radeon vs. NVIDIA vs. Intel 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 Intel HD Graphics 630: Processor: Intel Core i7-7700K @ 4.50GHz (8 Cores), Motherboard: MSI Z270-A PRO (MS-7A71) v1.0, Chipset: Intel Device 591f, Memory: 15360MB, Disk: Samsung SSD 950 PRO 256GB, Graphics: Intel HD 630 (Kaby Lake GT2) 3072MB (1150MHz), Audio: Realtek ALC892, Monitor: Acer B286HK, Network: Realtek RTL8111/8168/8411 OS: Ubuntu 16.10, Kernel: 4.11.0-999-generic (x86_64) 20170326, 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, 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 |=============================================== Intel HD Graphics 630 . 69.17 |==== 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 |=============================================== Intel HD Graphics 630 . 17.87 |== 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 |=============================================== Intel HD Graphics 630 . 14.10 |== 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 |=============================================== Intel HD Graphics 630 . 18.27 |== 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 |=============================================== Intel HD Graphics 630 . 5.60 |== 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 |=============================================== Intel HD Graphics 630 . 4.93 |== 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 |================================================ Intel HD Graphics 630 . 4.47 |== 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 |================================================ Intel HD Graphics 630 . 3.80 |==