AMD Radeon R9 290 Linux Update With Source Engine On Ubuntu 14.04 LTS

Similar to Counter-Strike: Source, Team Fortress 2 was becoming CPU bottlenecked and not seeing much of an advantage out of the higher-end graphics hardware from AMD and NVIDIA. However, like CS: Source, the Radeon R9 290 and other higher-end Radeon GPUs were topping out at a noticeably lower frame-rate than the GeForce hardware with NVIDIA's Linux driver. At 1920 x 1080 the R9 290 averaged out to 155 FPS while the NVIDIA GPUs were pushing 195 FPS. Likewise, at 2560 x 1600, the R9 290 topped out at 157 FPS while the NVIDIA hardware could easily reach between 170~190 FPS with this popular Valve free-to-play game.

Stay tuned for more Ubuntu 14.04 LTS AMD / Intel / NVIDIA graphics card benchmarks in the days ahead with a diverse selection of OpenGL games as the "Trusty Tahr" release approaches in mid-April. Have feedback or new test suggestions? Let us know via @MichaelLarabel on Twitter or through our forums by hitting the article comment link.

As a bonus I have also uploaded some more Radeon R9 290 Ubuntu 14.04 LTS benchmarks of HL2: Lost Coast and Portal at different resolutions via this OpenBenchmarking.org result file. Feel free to run your own comparisons with the Phoronix Test Suite.