firt Intel Core i5-4670 testing with a ASRock Z87 Extreme4 and AMD Radeon HD 6870 1024MB on LinuxMint 18.1 via the Phoronix Test Suite. AMD Radeon HD 6870: Processor: Intel Core i5-4670 @ 3.80GHz (4 Cores), Motherboard: ASRock Z87 Extreme4, Chipset: Intel 4th Gen Core DRAM, Memory: 3 x 8192 MB DDR3-1600MHz, Disk: 2000GB Seagate ST2000DM006-2DM1 + 2000GB Seagate ST2000DM001-1CH1, Graphics: AMD Radeon HD 6870 1024MB (300/300MHz), Audio: Realtek ALC1150, Monitor: VA2448, Network: Intel Connection I217-V OS: LinuxMint 18.1, Kernel: 4.4.0-83-lowlatency (x86_64), Desktop: Cinnamon 3.2.7, Display Server: X Server 1.18.4, Display Driver: radeon 7.7.0, OpenGL: 3.3 Mesa 12.0.6 Gallium 0.4, Compiler: GCC 5.4.0 20160609, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 1920x1080 OpenArena 0.8.8 Resolution: 1920 x 1080 Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better AMD Radeon HD 6870 . 60 |====================================================== OpenArena 0.8.8 Resolution: 1920 x 1080 - Total Frame Time Milliseconds < Lower Is Better AMD Radeon HD 6870 . MIN: 11.0 AVG: 16.6 MAX: 20.0 Tesseract 2014-05-12 Resolution: 1920 x 1080 Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better AMD Radeon HD 6870 . 144.52 |================================================== Unigine Valley 1.0 Resolution: 1920 x 1080 - Mode: Windowed Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better AMD Radeon HD 6870 . 20.92 |=================================================== Unigine Valley 1.0 Resolution: 1920 x 1080 - Mode: Fullscreen Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better AMD Radeon HD 6870 . 20.55 |=================================================== GpuTest 0.7.0 Test: Plot3D - Resolution: 1920 x 1080 - Mode: Windowed Points > Higher Is Better AMD Radeon HD 6870 . 12300 |=================================================== GpuTest 0.7.0 Test: Plot3D - Resolution: 1920 x 1080 - Mode: Fullscreen Points > Higher Is Better AMD Radeon HD 6870 . 16525 |===================================================