16-Way OpenCL Compute Comparison Of The Latest Polaris & Pascal GPUs

First up with Mixbench it's surprising to see how well the AMDGPU-PRO stack was performing. The Radeon R9 Fury in this test was on par with the GTX 1070 / TITAN X (Maxwell) and the Radeon RX 480 was faster than the GTX 980. In the OpenGL tests, the RX 480 tends to perform only better than the GTX 960 or so. OpenCL tends to be one of the AMD proprietary driver's stronger areas and keep in mind this is AMDGPU-PRO with its closed-source OpenCL implementation rather than Gallium3D Clover. Also keep in mind this is the first test of many to come in this article.

With Mixbench's double-precision test, the AMDGPU-PRO driver wasn't working properly so we just have the look at the NVIDIA numbers.

With the integer test of Mixbench, the AMDGPU-PRO results are strange in that the R9 290 is faster than the R9 Fury. Additionally, the Radeon GPUs are no longer as competitive as they were when doing the single precision test. Here the RX 480 was performing between the GTX 960 and GTX 970.