The Power Efficiency From A Radeon HD 4890 Through The RX 480 & R9 Fury

Here's a rough look at the meta performance-per-Watt across the tests ran for this article today. From this metric, going from the HD 4890 to R9 Fury is a 7.3x improvement in performance-per-Watt.

And here is the AC system power consumption of all of the graphics cards over all of the tests executed.

Here's a look at the CPU usage over the course of all the benchmarks ran. Overall, the results weren't too dramatically different across GPU generations.

The GPU temperature for what it's worth, while keeping in mind the cards used varied by AIB brand and many other factors.

Fun data to look at for seeing how AMD GPUs have evolved since the Radeon HD 4000 series launch in 2008 and also seeing that the open-source AMD Linux GPU driver stack is performing well on the newest Mesa and kernel code. Stay tuned for similar end-of-year NVIDIA Linux tests in the days ahead using their latest drivers plus other year-end articles. If you didn't see this weekend's big AMD Linux comparison with a number of more OpenGL Linux gaming tests, go check out that article.