How The Radeon OpenGL Performance Has Evolved From The HD 2900XT To RX Vega

Written by Michael Larabel in Graphics Cards on 15 August 2017 at 10:00 AM EDT. Page 3 of 6. 26 Comments.
Radeon HD 29800XT/HD4870/HD4890 To Radeon RX Vega On OpenGL Linux

The Tesseract GL2 open-source game is able to show scaling across all of the GPUs tested. Going from the pre-GCN Radeon HD 6950 to RX Vega 64 is a 3.7x improvement in performance for this game.

Radeon HD 29800XT/HD4870/HD4890 To Radeon RX Vega On OpenGL Linux
Radeon HD 29800XT/HD4870/HD4890 To Radeon RX Vega On OpenGL Linux

The RX 480 Polaris and R9 Fury Fiji hardware lead over the RX Vega 56/65 in performance-per-Watt.

Radeon HD 29800XT/HD4870/HD4890 To Radeon RX Vega On OpenGL Linux
Radeon HD 29800XT/HD4870/HD4890 To Radeon RX Vega On OpenGL Linux

And the classic open-source, ioquake3-powered game... OpenArena! The R9 Fury ends up doing slightly better than the RX Vega hardware for this game test at 1080p.


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