AMD Radeon 680M Graphics Are A Great Upgrade With RDNA2, Excellent On Linux

Written by Michael Larabel in Graphics Cards on 25 July 2022 at 11:15 AM EDT. Page 4 of 8. 44 Comments.
AMD Radeon 680M Linux Graphics
AMD Radeon 680M Linux Graphics

Half-Life 2 Episode Two with Vulkan and OpenGL saw the Core i7 1280P with Xe Graphics performing similar to the Ryzen 7 PRO 6850U for raw performance in this Linux native game.

AMD Radeon 680M Linux Graphics
AMD Radeon 680M Linux Graphics

But on a performance-per-Watt basis, the Ryzen 7 PRO 6850U was more than twice as efficient as the Core i7 1280P tested in the MSI Evo notebook.

AMD Radeon 680M Linux Graphics
AMD Radeon 680M Linux Graphics

Two of the games tested where the Intel Alder Lake P graphics outperformed the Rembrandt RDNA2 graphics on Linux were Left 4 Dead 2 and Metro: Last Light Redux -- possibly an area where it may be needing just more Mesa RADV Vulkan and RadeonSI Gallium3D driver optimizations...

AMD Radeon 680M Linux Graphics
AMD Radeon 680M Linux Graphics

In any event the Ryzen 7 PRO 6850U was still showing a commanding lead for driving up the performance-per-Watt.


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