AMD Radeon R9 285 Tonga Performance On Linux

Unigine's Valley tech demo remains one of the most demanding OpenGL workloads currently available on Linux. With the Radeon R9 285 the performance was just a bit faster than the Radeon R9 270X but compared to the NVIDIA Linux performance it was coming up short. The GeForce GTX 760 was about 30% faster for Unigine Valley at 1920 x 1080 -- 43 FPS for the R9 285 Tonga and 56 FPS for the GK104 GTX 760.

When pushing the graphics cards even harder by running Unigine Valley at 4K, the R9 285 performance was closer to the GTX 760 but still coming up short under Ubuntu Linux.

Next up was Xonotic, which remains one of the most visually advanced open-source OpenGL games. At 4K, the R9 285 with ultra image quality settings could push out 141 FPS compared to 129 FPS with the GTX 760, which is a modest win against Tonga's closest competitor. With the next Xonotic release though the NVIDIA Linux delta will increase further though as I was just informed a few days ago about some continued Xonotic NVIDIA performance optimizations.