September 2018 Drivers: The Current Linux Performance & Perf-Per-Watt From NVIDIA Kepler To Pascal vs. AMD

Written by Michael Larabel in Display Drivers on 11 September 2018 at 05:35 PM EDT. Page 9 of 9. 18 Comments.
NVIDIA vs. AMD Radeon - Linux Benchmarks, Sep. 2018
NVIDIA vs. AMD Radeon - Linux Benchmarks, Sep. 2018

Unigine Heaven has the RX Vega 64 coming in a few frames shy of the GTX 1070.

NVIDIA vs. AMD Radeon - Linux Benchmarks, Sep. 2018

With Unigine Superposition, the RX Vega 64 manages to come ahead of the GTX 1070.

NVIDIA vs. AMD Radeon - Linux Benchmarks, Sep. 2018

During the benchmarking process, the Phoronix Test Suite was also monitoring each GPU's core operating temperature... While these numbers don't mean too much overall considering the many different coolers from the different AIB vendors, here is a look at the temperatures on the cards tested.

NVIDIA vs. AMD Radeon - Linux Benchmarks, Sep. 2018

Lastly is a look at the overall AC system power consumption during all of the benchmarks carried out on each of the graphics cards. It will certainly be interesting to see where the RTX 2080 series fits in...

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