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

Next up is SHOC, the Scalable Heterogeneous Computing platform.

With the max SP test the R9 Fury had a strong showing, the RX 480 performed as desired with coming out slightly ahead of the GTX 980 (unlike most of the OpenGL tests), and the NVIDIA cards performed as they should -- unlike the GTX 1080 issue plaguing LuxMark.

If looking at the power efficiency for this basic test looking at the single-precision potential of these graphics cards, the NVIDIA Pascal cards continued to perform well beyond the previous-generation NVIDIA Maxwell cards and the current offerings from AMD's Pascal and the older R9 Fury (Fiji) GPU.

The NVIDIA hardware and their Linux driver seemed to be much faster with the texture read bandwidth potential as measured by SHOC.