ASUS Radeon HD 7850 DirectCU

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Phoronix: ASUS Radeon HD 7850 DirectCU

Up for review today is the ASUS Radeon HD 7850 1GB DirectCU graphics card. This "Windows 8 Ready" AMD Radeon graphics card is being benchmarked under Ubuntu Linux and compared to an assortment of AMD Radeon and NVIDIA GeForce graphics cards.

http://www.phoronix.com/vr.php?view=18554

[Asariati]

How can the 7850 OC be more than twice as fast in Unigine Tropics v1.3 in 1920x1080 when 2560p shows the expected difference after overclocking???

[Dukenukemx]

Minor complaint, but can't their be benchmarks done with games from Steam? Prey? Quake 3? Think we need some games that throw a little more stress out there.

[rrohbeck]

> Using the Radeon HD 7850 graphics card with the open-source driver at this point would be borderline insanity.

I object to that, having run the open driver stack since last year. But I have to admit it was only because fglrx didn't work with my configuration (7850, Debian wheezy, 4 monitors.)

The open stack worked quite well after I figured it out with help from Alex and Michel. It's good enough for daily work and it's stable but I can't say anything about game performance.

[Calinou]

> Using the Radeon HD 7850 graphics card with the open-source driver at this point would be borderline insanity.

I object to that, having run the open driver stack since last year. But I have to admit it was only because fglrx didn't work with my configuration (7850, Debian wheezy, 4 monitors.)

The open stack worked quite well after I figured it out with help from Alex and Michel. It's good enough for daily work and it's stable but I can't say anything about game performance.

You bought a middle end graphics card yet you don't play games? What are you, Phenom user? :P

Minor complaint, but can't their be benchmarks done with games from Steam? Prey? Quake 3? Think we need some games that throw a little more stress out there.

Quake 3 is ridiculously inexpensive on the GPU; the Unigine benchmarks and Xonotic are much more demanding.

/me would like to see Sauerbraten/Red Eclipse/Tesseract benchmarks.

[rrohbeck]

You bought a middle end graphics card yet you don't play games? What are you, Phenom user? :P

No, it looked like the most reasonable card to drive my four monitors.

[smitty3268]

Minor complaint, but can't their be benchmarks done with games from Steam? Prey? Quake 3? Think we need some games that throw a little more stress out there.

I used to complain about this, but i came to a realization.

Phoronix is not a site about benchmarking linux or graphics.

It's a site about showing off PTS.

Which means, if PTS can't do it, it's not getting on Phoronix.

[Kano]

I did some initial tests with TF2 but without PTS. The problem i see is that you need overrides for all quality settings otherwise it is not compareable across other systems. As you can parse a log file it should be possible to integrate TF2 into pts. It is just not that much fun as the load times are really long.

[gilboa]

Something is seriously wrong the nVidia 460 / 550Ti results.
Last time I checked, my aging 470GTX ran the Heaven benchmark (w/o PTS) at ~30fps at 2560x1440... far, far from 4fps under 1280x1024.
Granted, my Xeon workstation has more CPU power than the test-bed machine, but 4FPS!??!?!

- Gilboa

[Asariati]

Don't worry, there are some bogus results (see my post above) and Michael does not seem to care or comment....