AMDGPU-PRO Radeon RX 460/470/480 vs. NVIDIA Linux GPU Benchmarks

Written by Michael Larabel in Display Drivers on 17 August 2016 at 10:20 AM EDT. Page 2 of 6. 94 Comments.
AMDGPU-PRO RX 400 Polaris Update

First up was the Linux port of BioShock Infinite. Keep in mind with the RX 470 results it's from a factory-overclocked Sapphire Nitro+ graphics card, which is why the RX 470 performance is close to the speed of the stock Radeon RX 480. Here all of the AMD Polaris graphics cards along with the R9 Fury came up short of the GTX 1060 when using the AMDGPU-PRO driver stack.

AMDGPU-PRO RX 400 Polaris Update
AMDGPU-PRO RX 400 Polaris Update

When looking at the performance-per-Watt with BioShock Infinite, the AMD Polaris cards were only in line with NVIDIA's previous-generation Maxwell cards.

AMDGPU-PRO RX 400 Polaris Update

A look at CS:GO at 1080p for looking at the low-end RX 460 performance... The NVIDIA cards all end up being CPU bound at 1080p, but 4K tests are below.

AMDGPU-PRO RX 400 Polaris Update

The factory-overclocked RX 470 and stock RX 480 perform in between the GTX 960 and GTX 970.

AMDGPU-PRO RX 400 Polaris Update

NVIDIA's Pascal cards continue to dominate on performance-per-Watt.


Related Articles