GPU Intel AMD Linux Open-Source Comparison Benchmark results by Michael Larabel for a future article. Radeon HD 6870: Processor: Intel Core i5-6600K @ 3.50GHz (4 Cores), Motherboard: MSI Z170A GAMING PRO (MS-7984) v1.0, Chipset: Intel Sky Lake, Memory: 16384MB, Disk: 256GB TS256GSSD370S, Graphics: Sapphire AMD Radeon HD 6870 1024MB, Audio: Realtek ALC1150, Monitor: DELL P2210H, Network: Intel Connection OS: Ubuntu 15.04, Kernel: 4.2.0-996-generic (x86_64) 20150825, Desktop: Xfce 4.12, Display Server: X Server 1.17.1, Display Driver: radeon 7.5.99, OpenGL: 3.3 Mesa 11.0.0-rc1 (git-ab94875) Gallium 0.4, Compiler: GCC 4.9.2 + LLVM 3.8.0, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 1920x1080 Skylake HD Graphics 530: Processor: Intel Core i5-6600K @ 3.50GHz (4 Cores), Motherboard: MSI Z170A GAMING PRO (MS-7984) v1.0, Chipset: Intel Sky Lake, Memory: 15360MB, Disk: 256GB TS256GSSD370S, Graphics: Intel Sky Lake (1150MHz), Audio: Realtek ALC1150, Monitor: DELL P2210H, Network: Intel Connection OS: Ubuntu 15.04, Kernel: 4.2.0-996-generic (x86_64) 20150825, Desktop: Xfce 4.12, Display Server: X Server 1.17.1, Display Driver: intel 2.99.917, OpenGL: 3.3 Mesa 11.0.0-rc1 (git-ab94875), Compiler: GCC 4.9.2 + LLVM 3.8.0, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 1920x1080 Radeon HD 7950: Processor: Intel Core i5-6600K @ 3.50GHz (4 Cores), Motherboard: MSI Z170A GAMING PRO (MS-7984) v1.0, Chipset: Intel Sky Lake, Memory: 16384MB, Disk: 256GB TS256GSSD370S, Graphics: XFX AMD Radeon HD 7950/8950 OEM / R9 280 3072MB, Audio: Realtek ALC1150, Monitor: DELL P2210H, Network: Intel Connection OS: Ubuntu 15.04, Kernel: 4.2.0-996-generic (x86_64) 20150825, Desktop: Xfce 4.12, Display Server: X Server 1.17.1, Display Driver: radeon 7.5.99, OpenGL: 4.1 Mesa 11.0.0-rc1 (git-ab94875) Gallium 0.4, Compiler: GCC 4.9.2 + LLVM 3.8.0, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 1920x1080 Radeon HD 6950: Processor: Intel Core i5-6600K @ 3.50GHz (4 Cores), Motherboard: MSI Z170A GAMING PRO (MS-7984) v1.0, Chipset: Intel Sky Lake, Memory: 16384MB, Disk: 256GB TS256GSSD370S, Graphics: Sapphire AMD Radeon HD 6950 2048MB, Audio: Realtek ALC1150, Monitor: DELL P2210H, Network: Intel Connection OS: Ubuntu 15.04, Kernel: 4.2.0-996-generic (x86_64) 20150825, Desktop: Xfce 4.12, Display Server: X Server 1.17.1, Display Driver: radeon 7.5.99, OpenGL: 3.3 Mesa 11.0.0-rc1 (git-ab94875) Gallium 0.4, Compiler: GCC 4.9.2 + LLVM 3.8.0, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 1920x1080 Radeon R9 290: Processor: Intel Core i5-6600K @ 3.50GHz (4 Cores), Motherboard: MSI Z170A GAMING PRO (MS-7984) v1.0, Chipset: Intel Sky Lake, Memory: 16384MB, Disk: 256GB TS256GSSD370S, Graphics: XFX AMD Radeon R9 290 4096MB, Audio: Realtek ALC1150, Monitor: DELL P2210H, Network: Intel Connection OS: Ubuntu 15.04, Kernel: 4.2.0-996-generic (x86_64) 20150825, Desktop: Xfce 4.12, Display Server: X Server 1.17.1, Display Driver: radeon 7.5.99, OpenGL: 4.1 Mesa 11.0.0-rc1 (git-ab94875) Gallium 0.4, Compiler: GCC 4.9.2 + LLVM 3.8.0, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 1920x1080 Radeon R7 370: Processor: Intel Core i5-6600K @ 3.50GHz (4 Cores), Motherboard: MSI Z170A GAMING PRO (MS-7984) v1.0, Chipset: Intel Sky Lake, Memory: 16384MB, Disk: 256GB TS256GSSD370S, Graphics: MSI AMD Radeon R9 270 4096MB, Audio: Realtek ALC1150, Monitor: DELL P2210H, Network: Intel Connection OS: Ubuntu 15.04, Kernel: 4.2.0-996-generic (x86_64) 20150825, Desktop: Xfce 4.12, Display Server: X Server 1.17.1, Display Driver: radeon 7.5.99, OpenGL: 4.1 Mesa 11.0.0-rc1 (git-ab94875) Gallium 0.4, Compiler: GCC 4.9.2 + LLVM 3.8.0, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 1920x1080 Radeon HD 6570: Processor: Intel Core i5-6600K @ 3.50GHz (4 Cores), Motherboard: MSI Z170A GAMING PRO (MS-7984) v1.0, Chipset: Intel Sky Lake, Memory: 16384MB, Disk: 256GB TS256GSSD370S, Graphics: Sapphire AMD Radeon HD 6570/7570/8550 512MB, Audio: Realtek ALC1150, Monitor: DELL P2210H, Network: Intel Connection OS: Ubuntu 15.04, Kernel: 4.2.0-996-generic (x86_64) 20150825, Desktop: Xfce 4.12, Display Server: X Server 1.17.1, Display Driver: radeon 7.5.99, OpenGL: 3.3 Mesa 11.0.0-rc1 (git-ab94875) Gallium 0.4, Compiler: GCC 4.9.2 + LLVM 3.8.0, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 1920x1080 Molly_AMDGPU_201704: Processor: Intel Core i5-6600K @ 3.90GHz (4 Cores), Motherboard: ASRock Z170 Gaming-ITX/ac, Chipset: Intel Skylake, Memory: 16384MB, Disk: 250GB Samsung SSD 850 + 256GB SAMSUNG SSD SM84 + 120GB Samsung SSD 840 + 4001GB Western Digital WD40EFRX-68W, Graphics: MSI AMD Radeon R7 360 / R9 360 OEM 2048MB, Audio: Realtek ALC1150, Monitor: Q2770, Network: Intel Connection + Broadcom Limited BCM4352 802.11ac Wireless OS: Ubuntu 17.04, Kernel: 4.10.0-20-generic (x86_64), Desktop: GNOME Shell 3.24.0, Display Driver: modesetting 1.17.2, OpenGL: 4.5 Mesa 17.0.3 Gallium 0.4 (LLVM 4.0.0), Compiler: GCC 6.3.0 20170406 + Clang 4.0.0-1ubuntu1, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 2560x1440 OpenArena 0.8.8 Resolution: 1920 x 1080 Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better Radeon HD 6870 .......... 180.43 |===================================== Skylake HD Graphics 530 . 69.37 |============== Radeon HD 7950 .......... 218.82 |============================================= Radeon HD 6950 .......... 113.10 |======================= Radeon R9 290 ........... 208.53 |=========================================== Radeon R7 370 ........... 203.43 |========================================== Radeon HD 6570 .......... 71.57 |=============== Molly_AMDGPU_201704 ..... 185.83 |====================================== OpenArena 0.8.8 Resolution: 1920 x 1080 - Total Frame Time Milliseconds < Lower Is Better Radeon HD 6870 .......... MIN: 2.0 AVG: 5.5 MAX: 10.0 Skylake HD Graphics 530 . MIN: 11.0 AVG: 14.1 MAX: 48.0 Radeon HD 7950 .......... MIN: 2.0 AVG: 5.0 MAX: 25.0 Radeon HD 6950 .......... MIN: 4.0 AVG: 8.8 MAX: 14.0 Radeon R9 290 ........... MIN: 1.0 AVG: 4.8 MAX: 30.0 Radeon R7 370 ........... MIN: 1.0 AVG: 5.1 MAX: 29.0 Radeon HD 6570 .......... MIN: 7.0 AVG: 14.0 MAX: 19.0 Tesseract 2014-05-12 Resolution: 1920 x 1080 Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better Radeon HD 6870 .......... 140.28 |=================================== Skylake HD Graphics 530 . 55.71 |============== Radeon HD 7950 .......... 156.17 |======================================= Radeon HD 6950 .......... 113.90 |============================ Radeon R9 290 ........... 180.95 |============================================= Radeon R7 370 ........... 152.67 |====================================== Radeon HD 6570 .......... 46.50 |============ Unigine Tropics 1.3 Resolution: 1920 x 1080 - Mode: Fullscreen Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better Radeon HD 6870 ...... 67.44 |====================== Radeon HD 7950 ...... 108.94 |==================================== Radeon HD 6950 ...... 81.67 |=========================== Radeon R9 290 ....... 147.71 |================================================= Radeon R7 370 ....... 97.16 |================================ Radeon HD 6570 ...... 19.15 |====== Molly_AMDGPU_201704 . 83.77 |============================ Unigine Valley 1.0 Resolution: 1920 x 1080 - Mode: Fullscreen Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better Radeon HD 6870 .......... 22.79 |================= Skylake HD Graphics 530 . 8.09 |====== Radeon HD 7950 .......... 39.67 |============================== Radeon HD 6950 .......... 30.02 |======================= Radeon R9 290 ........... 60.78 |============================================== Radeon R7 370 ........... 35.37 |=========================== Radeon HD 6570 .......... 5.70 |==== Molly_AMDGPU_201704 ..... 26.28 |==================== Xonotic 0.8 Resolution: 1920 x 1080 - Effects Quality: Ultra Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better Radeon HD 6870 .......... 152.05 |===================================== Skylake HD Graphics 530 . 80.44 |=================== Radeon HD 7950 .......... 170.56 |========================================= Radeon HD 6950 .......... 144.27 |=================================== Radeon R9 290 ........... 172.36 |========================================== Radeon R7 370 ........... 169.92 |========================================= Radeon HD 6570 .......... 54.36 |============= Molly_AMDGPU_201704 ..... 186.59 |============================================= Xonotic 0.8 Resolution: 1920 x 1080 - Effects Quality: Ultimate Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better Radeon HD 6870 .......... 106.68 |================================== Skylake HD Graphics 530 . 62.31 |==================== Radeon HD 7950 .......... 138.41 |============================================ Radeon HD 6950 .......... 114.28 |==================================== Radeon R9 290 ........... 143.12 |============================================= Radeon R7 370 ........... 135.68 |=========================================== Radeon HD 6570 .......... 32.30 |========== Molly_AMDGPU_201704 ..... 142.64 |============================================= GpuTest 0.7.0 Test: Plot3D - Resolution: 1920 x 1080 - Mode: Fullscreen Points > Higher Is Better Radeon HD 6870 .......... 16565 |============== Skylake HD Graphics 530 . 7847 |======= Radeon HD 7950 .......... 43657 |====================================== Radeon HD 6950 .......... 26615 |======================= Radeon R9 290 ........... 50854 |============================================ Radeon R7 370 ........... 52894 |============================================== Radeon HD 6570 .......... 4136 |==== Molly_AMDGPU_201704 ..... 37779 |================================= GpuTest 0.7.0 Test: Furmark - Resolution: 1920 x 1080 - Mode: Fullscreen Points > Higher Is Better Radeon HD 6870 .......... 2076 |================== Skylake HD Graphics 530 . 702 |====== Radeon HD 7950 .......... 2954 |========================== Radeon HD 6950 .......... 2221 |==================== Radeon R9 290 ........... 5351 |=============================================== Radeon R7 370 ........... 3315 |============================= Radeon HD 6570 .......... 702 |====== Molly_AMDGPU_201704 ..... 1321 |============ GpuTest 0.7.0 Test: Triangle - Resolution: 1920 x 1080 - Mode: Fullscreen Points > Higher Is Better Radeon HD 6870 .......... 105618 |================ Skylake HD Graphics 530 . 22625 |=== Radeon HD 7950 .......... 270752 |========================================== Radeon HD 6950 .......... 91847 |============== Radeon R9 290 ........... 290910 |============================================= Radeon R7 370 ........... 276510 |=========================================== Radeon HD 6570 .......... 24073 |==== Molly_AMDGPU_201704 ..... 226984 |=================================== GpuTest 0.7.0 Test: Pixmark Piano - Resolution: 1920 x 1080 - Mode: Fullscreen Points > Higher Is Better Radeon HD 6870 ...... 39132 |======================== Radeon HD 7950 ...... 684 | Radeon HD 6950 ...... 81766 |================================================== Radeon R9 290 ....... 1147 |= Radeon R7 370 ....... 510 | Radeon HD 6570 ...... 23642 |============== Molly_AMDGPU_201704 . 156 | GpuTest 0.7.0 Test: Pixmark Volplosion - Resolution: 1920 x 1080 - Mode: Fullscreen Points > Higher Is Better Radeon HD 6870 .......... 28421 |============== Skylake HD Graphics 530 . 391 | Radeon HD 7950 .......... 1766 |= Radeon HD 6950 .......... 92389 |============================================== Radeon R9 290 ........... 2926 |= Radeon R7 370 ........... 1313 |= Radeon HD 6570 .......... 21801 |=========== Molly_AMDGPU_201704 ..... 534 | OpenArena 0.8.8 Resolution: 1920 x 1080 - Total Frame Time Milliseconds < Lower Is Better Molly_AMDGPU_201704 . MIN: 1.0 AVG: 5.3 MAX: 25.0