old gpu vs new AMD Ryzen 5 3600 6-Core testing with a MSI MPG X570 GAMING PRO CARBON WIFI (MS-7B93) v1.0 (1.B1 BIOS) and eVGA NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660 Ti 6GB on Ubuntu 20.04 via the Phoronix Test Suite. GTX 660Ti: Processor: AMD FX-8320 Eight-Core @ 4.30GHz (8 Cores), Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-970A-D3, Chipset: AMD RD890 bridge, Memory: 16384MB, Disk: 2 x 2000GB Seagate ST2000DM001-1CH1 + 120GB Samsung SSD 840 + 2000GB Seagate ST2000DM001-1ER1, Graphics: ASUS NVIDIA GeForce GTX 660 Ti 2048MB (967/3004MHz), Audio: AMD SBx00 Azalia, Monitor: GRUNDIG WUXGA + ViewSonic VA2431, Network: Realtek RTL8111/8168/8411 OS: Arch rolling, Kernel: 3.18.7-2-ck (x86_64), Desktop: KDE 4.14.5, Display Driver: NVIDIA 346.35, OpenGL: 4.5.0 NVIDIA 346.35, Compiler: GCC 4.9.2 20150204, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 3840x1080 GTX 970: Processor: AMD FX-8320 Eight-Core @ 4.30GHz (8 Cores), Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-970A-D3, Chipset: AMD RD890 bridge, Memory: 16384MB, Disk: 2 x 2000GB Seagate ST2000DM001-1CH1 + 120GB Samsung SSD 840 + 2000GB Seagate ST2000DM001-1ER1, Graphics: ASUS NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970 4096MB (405/324MHz), Audio: AMD SBx00 Azalia, Monitor: GRUNDIG WUXGA + ViewSonic VA2431, Network: Realtek RTL8111/8168/8411 OS: Arch rolling, Kernel: 3.18.7-2-ck (x86_64), Display Driver: NVIDIA 346.35, OpenGL: 4.5.0 NVIDIA 346.35, Compiler: GCC 4.9.2 20150204, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 3840x1080 GTX 970 with 352.09: Processor: AMD FX-8320 Eight-Core @ 4.20GHz (8 Cores), Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-970A-D3, Chipset: AMD RD890 bridge, Memory: 16384MB, Disk: 2 x 2000GB Seagate ST2000DM001-1CH1 + 120GB Samsung SSD 840 + 2000GB Seagate ST2000DM001-1ER1, Graphics: ASUS NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970 4096MB (1113/3505MHz), Audio: AMD SBx00 Azalia, Network: Realtek RTL8111/8168/8411 OS: Arch rolling, Kernel: 4.0.4-2-ARCH (x86_64), Desktop: MATE 1.8.2, Display Driver: NVIDIA 352.09, OpenGL: 4.4.0, Compiler: GCC 5.1.0, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 3840x1080 SYNTH WAVE: Processor: AMD Ryzen 5 3600 6-Core (6 Cores / 12 Threads), Motherboard: MSI MPG X570 GAMING PRO CARBON WIFI (MS-7B93) v1.0 (1.B1 BIOS), Chipset: AMD Starship/Matisse, Memory: 32GB, Disk: 500GB HGST HTS545050A7 + 16GB Cruzer Glide, Graphics: eVGA NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660 Ti 6GB (1500/6000MHz), Audio: NVIDIA TU116 HD Audio, Monitor: WC34DX9019, Network: Intel I211 + Intel Wi-Fi 6 AX200 OS: Ubuntu 20.04, Kernel: 5.4.0-58-generic (x86_64), Desktop: GNOME Shell 3.36.4, Display Server: X Server 1.20.8, Display Driver: NVIDIA 455.38, OpenGL: 4.6.0, Compiler: GCC 9.3.0, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 3440x1440 Unigine Valley 1.0 Resolution: 1920 x 1080 - Mode: Fullscreen Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better GTX 660Ti ........... 49.01 |====================== GTX 970 ............. 71.68 |================================ GTX 970 with 352.09 . 72.72 |================================ SYNTH WAVE .......... 110.91 |================================================= Unigine Heaven 4.0 Resolution: 1920 x 1080 - Mode: Fullscreen Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better GTX 660Ti ........... 31.14 |=============== GTX 970 ............. 74.50 |=================================== GTX 970 with 352.09 . 81.35 |====================================== SYNTH WAVE .......... 105.12 |=================================================