The Most Power Efficient & Best Value Of AMD GPUs For Linux Gamers

Written by Michael Larabel in Linux Gaming on 26 August 2015 at 12:00 PM EDT. Page 6 of 9. 13 Comments.
4K AMD Catalyst Perf Per Dollar

With Civilization: Beyond Earth at 4K, only the R9 Fury was running close to a sixty FPS average.

4K AMD Catalyst Perf Per Dollar
4K AMD Catalyst Perf Per Dollar

The R9 Fury will obviously deliver the best power efficiency being the newest AMD GPU tech, but the performance-per-dollar still goes with the R9 290 and R7 370.

4K AMD Catalyst Perf Per Dollar
4K AMD Catalyst Perf Per Dollar
4K AMD Catalyst Perf Per Dollar

When running BioShock Infinite at 1080p, none of the four AMD graphics cards on Catalyst could run at decent frame-rates.

4K AMD Catalyst Perf Per Dollar

Hopefully BioShock Infinite will be better optimized in future Catalyst Linux releases.


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