1440p Mid Range Linux Gaming 1440p Linux gaming benchmarks by Michael Larabel for a future article on Phoronix.com.. RX 590: Processor: Intel Core i9-9900K @ 5.00GHz (8 Cores / 16 Threads), Motherboard: ASUS PRIME Z390-A (0602 BIOS), Chipset: Intel Cannon Lake PCH Shared SRAM, Memory: 16384MB, Disk: 2000GB SABRENT + Samsung SSD 970 EVO 250GB, Graphics: Sapphire AMD Radeon RX 470/480 8GB (1560/2100MHz), Audio: Realtek ALC1220, Monitor: Acer B286HK, Network: Intel I219-V OS: Ubuntu 18.04, Kernel: 4.20.0-042000-generic (x86_64), Desktop: Xfce 4.12, Display Server: X Server 1.19.6, OpenGL: 4.5 Mesa 19.0.0-devel padoka PPA (LLVM 8.0.0), Vulkan: 1.1.90, Compiler: GCC 7.3.0 + LLVM 6.0.0 + CUDA 10.0, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 3840x2160 RX Vega 56: Processor: Intel Core i9-9900K @ 5.00GHz (8 Cores / 16 Threads), Motherboard: ASUS PRIME Z390-A (0602 BIOS), Chipset: Intel Cannon Lake PCH Shared SRAM, Memory: 16384MB, Disk: 2000GB SABRENT + Samsung SSD 970 EVO 250GB, Graphics: AMD Radeon RX Vega 8GB (1590/800MHz), Audio: Realtek ALC1220, Monitor: Acer B286HK, Network: Intel I219-V OS: Ubuntu 18.04, Kernel: 4.20.0-042000-generic (x86_64), Desktop: Xfce 4.12, Display Server: X Server 1.19.6, OpenGL: 4.5 Mesa 19.0.0-devel padoka PPA (LLVM 8.0.0), Vulkan: 1.1.90, Compiler: GCC 7.3.0 + LLVM 6.0.0 + CUDA 10.0, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 3840x2160 RX Vega 64: Processor: Intel Core i9-9900K @ 5.00GHz (8 Cores / 16 Threads), Motherboard: ASUS PRIME Z390-A (0602 BIOS), Chipset: Intel Cannon Lake PCH Shared SRAM, Memory: 16384MB, Disk: 2000GB SABRENT + Samsung SSD 970 EVO 250GB, Graphics: AMD Radeon RX Vega 8GB (1630/945MHz), Audio: Realtek ALC1220, Monitor: Acer B286HK, Network: Intel I219-V OS: Ubuntu 18.04, Kernel: 4.20.0-042000-generic (x86_64), Desktop: Xfce 4.12, Display Server: X Server 1.19.6, OpenGL: 4.5 Mesa 19.0.0-devel padoka PPA (LLVM 8.0.0), Vulkan: 1.1.90, Compiler: GCC 7.3.0 + LLVM 6.0.0 + CUDA 10.0, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 3840x2160 GTX 1060: Processor: Intel Core i9-9900K @ 5.00GHz (8 Cores / 16 Threads), Motherboard: ASUS PRIME Z390-A (0602 BIOS), Chipset: Intel Cannon Lake PCH Shared SRAM, Memory: 16384MB, Disk: 2000GB SABRENT + Samsung SSD 970 EVO 250GB, Graphics: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 6GB (1506/4006MHz), Audio: Realtek ALC1220, Monitor: Acer B286HK, Network: Intel I219-V OS: Ubuntu 18.04, Kernel: 4.20.0-042000-generic (x86_64), Desktop: Xfce 4.12, Display Server: X Server 1.19.6, Display Driver: NVIDIA 415.25, OpenGL: 4.6.0, Vulkan: 1.1.84, Compiler: GCC 7.3.0 + LLVM 6.0.0 + CUDA 10.0, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 3840x2160 GTX 1070: Processor: Intel Core i9-9900K @ 5.00GHz (8 Cores / 16 Threads), Motherboard: ASUS PRIME Z390-A (0602 BIOS), Chipset: Intel Cannon Lake PCH Shared SRAM, Memory: 16384MB, Disk: 2000GB SABRENT + Samsung SSD 970 EVO 250GB, Graphics: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070 8GB (1506/4006MHz), Audio: Realtek ALC1220, Monitor: Acer B286HK, Network: Intel I219-V OS: Ubuntu 18.04, Kernel: 4.20.0-042000-generic (x86_64), Desktop: Xfce 4.12, Display Server: X Server 1.19.6, Display Driver: NVIDIA 415.25, OpenGL: 4.6.0, Vulkan: 1.1.84, Compiler: GCC 7.3.0 + LLVM 6.0.0 + CUDA 10.0, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 3840x2160 GTX 1080: Processor: Intel Core i9-9900K @ 5.00GHz (8 Cores / 16 Threads), Motherboard: ASUS PRIME Z390-A (0602 BIOS), Chipset: Intel Cannon Lake PCH Shared SRAM, Memory: 16384MB, Disk: 2000GB SABRENT + Samsung SSD 970 EVO 250GB, Graphics: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 8GB (1607/5005MHz), Audio: Realtek ALC1220, Monitor: Acer B286HK, Network: Intel I219-V OS: Ubuntu 18.04, Kernel: 4.20.0-042000-generic (x86_64), Desktop: Xfce 4.12, Display Server: X Server 1.19.6, Display Driver: NVIDIA 415.25, OpenGL: 4.6.0, Vulkan: 1.1.84, Compiler: GCC 7.3.0 + LLVM 6.0.0 + CUDA 10.0, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 3840x2160 RTX 2060: Processor: Intel Core i9-9900K @ 5.00GHz (8 Cores / 16 Threads), Motherboard: ASUS PRIME Z390-A (0602 BIOS), Chipset: Intel Cannon Lake PCH Shared SRAM, Memory: 16384MB, Disk: 2000GB SABRENT + Samsung SSD 970 EVO 250GB, Graphics: Device 6GB (1365/7000MHz), Audio: Realtek ALC1220, Monitor: Acer B286HK, Network: Intel I219-V OS: Ubuntu 18.04, Kernel: 4.20.0-042000-generic (x86_64), Desktop: Xfce 4.12, Display Server: X Server 1.19.6, Display Driver: NVIDIA 415.25, OpenGL: 4.6.0, Vulkan: 1.1.84, Compiler: GCC 7.3.0 + LLVM 6.0.0 + CUDA 10.0, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 3840x2160 RTX 2070: Processor: Intel Core i9-9900K @ 5.00GHz (8 Cores / 16 Threads), Motherboard: ASUS PRIME Z390-A (0602 BIOS), Chipset: Intel Cannon Lake PCH Shared SRAM, Memory: 16384MB, Disk: 2000GB SABRENT + Samsung SSD 970 EVO 250GB, Graphics: ASUS NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2070 8GB (1410/7000MHz), Audio: Realtek ALC1220, Monitor: Acer B286HK, Network: Intel I219-V OS: Ubuntu 18.04, Kernel: 4.20.0-042000-generic (x86_64), Desktop: Xfce 4.12, Display Server: X Server 1.19.6, Display Driver: NVIDIA 415.25, OpenGL: 4.6.0, Vulkan: 1.1.84, Compiler: GCC 7.3.0 + LLVM 6.0.0 + CUDA 10.0, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 3840x2160 F1 2018 Configuration: 2560 x 1440 - Ultra High Quality - Total Frame Time Milliseconds < Lower Is Better RX 590 ..... MIN: 9.8 AVG: 17.3 MAX: 45.5 RX Vega 56 . MIN: 8.2 AVG: 14.4 MAX: 51.0 RX Vega 64 . MIN: 7.3 AVG: 13.0 MAX: 31.6 GTX 1060 ... MIN: 10.8 AVG: 18.7 MAX: 38.1 GTX 1070 ... MIN: 7.7 AVG: 13.5 MAX: 25.5 GTX 1080 ... MIN: 6.2 AVG: 10.7 MAX: 30.1 RTX 2060 ... MIN: 6.3 AVG: 10.9 MAX: 30.3 RTX 2070 ... MIN: 5.4 AVG: 9.6 MAX: 33.7 OpenArena 0.8.8 Resolution: 2560 x 1440 - Total Frame Time Milliseconds < Lower Is Better RX 590 ..... MIN: 1.0 AVG: 3.2 MAX: 33.0 RX Vega 56 . MIN: 1.0 AVG: 2.6 MAX: 32.0 RX Vega 64 . MIN: 1.0 AVG: 2.3 MAX: 31.0 GTX 1060 ... MIN: 1.0 AVG: 2.2 MAX: 23.0 GTX 1070 ... MIN: 1.0 AVG: 1.7 MAX: 24.0 GTX 1080 ... MIN: 1.0 AVG: 1.6 MAX: 24.0 RTX 2060 ... MIN: 1.0 AVG: 1.7 MAX: 23.0 RTX 2070 ... MIN: 1.0 AVG: 1.7 MAX: 23.0 Counter-Strike: Global Offensive Resolution: 2560 x 1440 - Total Frame Time Milliseconds < Lower Is Better RX 590 ..... MIN: 2 AVG: 5 MAX: 4215 RX Vega 56 . MIN: 2 AVG: 6 MAX: 4174 RX Vega 64 . MIN: 2 AVG: 5 MAX: 4240 GTX 1060 ... MIN: 3 AVG: 7 MAX: 4248 GTX 1070 ... MIN: 2 AVG: 5 MAX: 3850 GTX 1080 ... MIN: 2 AVG: 4 MAX: 3862 RTX 2060 ... MIN: 2 AVG: 5 MAX: 3850 RTX 2070 ... MIN: 2 AVG: 4 MAX: 3877 F1 2017 Resolution: 2560 x 1440 - Graphics Preset: High - Anti Aliasing: TAA Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better RX 590 ..... 94 |========================================= RX Vega 56 . 111 |================================================ RX Vega 64 . 124 |====================================================== GTX 1060 ... 63 |=========================== GTX 1070 ... 105 |============================================= GTX 1080 ... 132 |========================================================= RTX 2060 ... 125 |====================================================== RTX 2070 ... 141 |============================================================= OpenArena 0.8.8 Resolution: 2560 x 1440 Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better RX 590 ..... 309 |============================== RX Vega 56 . 388 |===================================== RX Vega 64 . 429 |========================================= GTX 1060 ... 453 |=========================================== GTX 1070 ... 578 |======================================================= GTX 1080 ... 637 |============================================================= RTX 2060 ... 570 |======================================================= RTX 2070 ... 579 |======================================================= Portal Resolution: 2560 x 1440 Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better RX 590 ..... 562 |========================================== RX Vega 56 . 710 |===================================================== RX Vega 64 . 823 |============================================================= GTX 1060 ... 401 |============================== GTX 1070 ... 555 |========================================= GTX 1080 ... 717 |===================================================== RTX 2060 ... 559 |========================================= RTX 2070 ... 634 |=============================================== A Total War Saga: THRONES OF BRITANNIA Resolution: 2560 x 1440 - Graphics Preset: High - Total Frame Time Milliseconds < Lower Is Better RX 590 ..... MIN: 7 AVG: 15 MAX: 854 RX Vega 56 . MIN: 8 AVG: 12 MAX: 256 RX Vega 64 . MIN: 6 AVG: 11 MAX: 882 GTX 1060 ... MIN: 7 AVG: 16 MAX: 829 GTX 1070 ... MIN: 7 AVG: 12 MAX: 254 GTX 1080 ... MIN: 6 AVG: 10 MAX: 794 RTX 2060 ... MIN: 6 AVG: 10 MAX: 250 RTX 2070 ... MIN: 5 AVG: 9 MAX: 279 Total War: WARHAMMER II 1.0 Resolution: 2560 x 1440 - Graphics Preset: High - Scenario: Skaven Battle - Total Frame Time Milliseconds < Lower Is Better RX 590 ..... MIN: 6 AVG: 20 MAX: 831 RX Vega 56 . MIN: 5 AVG: 16 MAX: 66 .X.. RX Vega 64 . MIN: 5 AVG: 13 MAX: 62 .X. GTX 1060 ... MIN: 6 AVG: 22 MAX: 67 .X.. GTX 1070 ... MIN: 6 AVG: 16 MAX: 59 .X. GTX 1080 ... MIN: 6 AVG: 12 MAX: 63 |X. RTX 2060 ... MIN: 6 AVG: 14 MAX: 62 .X. RTX 2070 ... MIN: 5 AVG: 12 MAX: 62 |X. Total War: WARHAMMER II 1.0 Resolution: 2560 x 1440 - Graphics Preset: High - Scenario: Fallen Gates Battle - Total Frame Time Milliseconds < Lower Is Better RX 590 ..... MIN: 4.6 AVG: 23.4 MAX: 59.9 RX Vega 56 . MIN: 4.6 AVG: 18.8 MAX: 51.3 RX Vega 64 . MIN: 5.5 AVG: 16.0 MAX: 44.8 GTX 1060 ... MIN: 4.5 AVG: 26.3 MAX: 62.1 GTX 1070 ... MIN: 7.5 AVG: 19.2 MAX: 54.0 GTX 1080 ... MIN: 4.3 AVG: 15.1 MAX: 50.7 RTX 2060 ... MIN: 5.1 AVG: 16.5 MAX: 49.2 RTX 2070 ... MIN: 5.1 AVG: 14.4 MAX: 48.4 F1 2018 Configuration: 2560 x 1440 - Ultra High Quality Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better RX 590 ..... 57 |================================= RX Vega 56 . 69 |======================================== RX Vega 64 . 76 |============================================ GTX 1060 ... 53 |=============================== GTX 1070 ... 73 |========================================== GTX 1080 ... 93 |====================================================== RTX 2060 ... 91 |===================================================== RTX 2070 ... 105 |============================================================= Serious Sam 3: BFE Resolution: 2560 x 1440 - Quality: High - Renderer: Vulkan Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better RX 590 ..... 37.73 |=============================== RX Vega 56 . 58.05 |================================================ RX Vega 64 . 64.66 |===================================================== GTX 1060 ... 44.33 |==================================== GTX 1070 ... 57.38 |=============================================== GTX 1080 ... 68.48 |======================================================== RTX 2060 ... 60.67 |================================================== RTX 2070 ... 71.98 |=========================================================== The Talos Principle Renderer: Vulkan - Resolution: 2560 x 1440 Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better RX 590 ..... 46.43 |================================ RX Vega 56 . 65.67 |============================================= RX Vega 64 . 73.70 |================================================== GTX 1060 ... 47.73 |================================= GTX 1070 ... 65.60 |============================================= GTX 1080 ... 79.97 |======================================================= RTX 2060 ... 73.07 |================================================== RTX 2070 ... 86.53 |=========================================================== Counter-Strike: Global Offensive Resolution: 2560 x 1440 Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better RX 590 ..... 247 |================================================== RX Vega 56 . 244 |================================================== RX Vega 64 . 251 |=================================================== GTX 1060 ... 162 |================================= GTX 1070 ... 278 |========================================================= GTX 1080 ... 300 |============================================================= RTX 2060 ... 284 |========================================================== RTX 2070 ... 291 |=========================================================== Total War: WARHAMMER II 1.0 Resolution: 2560 x 1440 - Graphics Preset: High - Scenario: Fallen Gates Battle Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better RX 590 ..... 42.73 |==================================== RX Vega 56 . 52.97 |============================================= RX Vega 64 . 61.70 |==================================================== GTX 1060 ... 37.87 |================================ GTX 1070 ... 52.10 |============================================ GTX 1080 ... 66.50 |======================================================== RTX 2060 ... 60.50 |=================================================== RTX 2070 ... 69.70 |=========================================================== Total War: WARHAMMER II 1.0 Resolution: 2560 x 1440 - Graphics Preset: High - Scenario: Skaven Battle Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better RX 590 ..... 51.47 |==================================== RX Vega 56 . 63.63 |============================================ RX Vega 64 . 74.87 |==================================================== GTX 1060 ... 46.17 |================================ GTX 1070 ... 64.03 |============================================= GTX 1080 ... 80.97 |======================================================== RTX 2060 ... 72.60 |=================================================== RTX 2070 ... 84.80 |=========================================================== DiRT Rally Resolution: 2560 x 1440 - Graphics Preset: Ultra Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better RX 590 ..... 114.00 |============================================ RX Vega 56 . 141.00 |====================================================== RX Vega 64 . 151.00 |========================================================== GTX 1060 ... 85.81 |================================= GTX 1070 ... 116.47 |============================================= GTX 1080 ... 138.00 |===================================================== RTX 2060 ... 120.00 |============================================== RTX 2070 ... 129.00 |================================================== A Total War Saga: THRONES OF BRITANNIA Resolution: 2560 x 1440 - Graphics Preset: High Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better RX 590 ..... 68.87 |===================================== RX Vega 56 . 84.83 |============================================= RX Vega 64 . 95.83 |=================================================== GTX 1060 ... 62.57 |================================= GTX 1070 ... 86.20 |============================================== GTX 1080 ... 104.60 |======================================================= RTX 2060 ... 95.30 |=================================================== RTX 2070 ... 109.33 |========================================================== Metro: Last Light Redux Resolution: 2560 x 1440 Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better RX 590 ..... 69.22 |================================= RX Vega 56 . 83.74 |======================================== RX Vega 64 . 89.16 |=========================================== GTX 1060 ... 71.00 |================================== GTX 1070 ... 98.77 |================================================ GTX 1080 ... 120.07 |========================================================== RTX 2060 ... 106.74 |=================================================== RTX 2070 ... 120.58 |========================================================== Dota 2 Resolution: 2560 x 1440 - Renderer: Vulkan Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better RX 590 ..... 135 |======================================================== RX Vega 56 . 132 |======================================================= RX Vega 64 . 134 |======================================================== GTX 1060 ... 103 |=========================================== GTX 1070 ... 144 |============================================================ GTX 1080 ... 143 |============================================================ RTX 2060 ... 146 |============================================================= RTX 2070 ... 145 |============================================================= BioShock Infinite Resolution: 2560 x 1440 - Effects Quality: Ultra Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better RX 590 ..... 218 |================================================== RX Vega 56 . 209 |================================================ RX Vega 64 . 207 |=============================================== GTX 1060 ... 190 |=========================================== GTX 1070 ... 264 |============================================================ GTX 1080 ... 267 |============================================================= RTX 2060 ... 266 |============================================================= RTX 2070 ... 267 |============================================================= X-Plane 11 Quality: Very High - Resolution: 2560 x 1440 Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better RX 590 ..... 65.88 |============================================ RX Vega 56 . 83.20 |======================================================== RX Vega 64 . 86.64 |========================================================== GTX 1060 ... 77.54 |==================================================== GTX 1070 ... 87.84 |=========================================================== GTX 1080 ... 87.88 |=========================================================== RTX 2060 ... 86.93 |========================================================== RTX 2070 ... 87.12 |==========================================================