22-Way AMD+NVIDIA Graphics Card Tests With Metro Redux On Steam For Linux
The graphics cards used for testing came down to the modern AMD and NVIDIA hardware that was on hand and not busy in any of the other test systems or LinuxBenchmarking.com test farm, they included:
- NVIDIA GeForce GTX 460 768MB
- eVGA NVIDIA GeForce GT 520 1024MB
- eVGA NVIDIA GeForce GTX 550 Ti 1024MB
- Zotac NVIDIA GeForce GT 610 1024MB
- MSI NVIDIA GeForce GTX 650 1024MB
- NVIDIA GeForce GTX 680 2048MB
- eVGA NVIDIA GeForce GT 740 1024MB
- eVGA NVIDIA GeForce GTX 750 1024MB
- NVIDIA GeForce GTX 750 Ti 2048MB
- NVIDIA GeForce GTX 760 2048MB
- NVIDIA GeForce GTX 780 Ti 3072MB
- eVGA NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970 4096MB
- NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 4096MB
- HIS AMD Radeon HD 6450 1024MB
- Sapphire AMD Radeon HD 6570 512MB
- Sapphire AMD Radeon HD 6870 1024MB
- Sapphire AMD Radeon HD 6950 2048MB
- ASUS AMD Radeon HD 7850 1024MB
- XFX AMD Radeon HD 7950 3072MB
- AMD Radeon R9 270X 2048MB
- AMD Radeon R9 285 2048MB
- AMD Radeon R9 290 4096MB
All of these graphics cards were tested from the same system with an Intel Core i7 5960X Haswell-E processor, Gigabyte X99-UD4-CF motherboard, 16GB of DDR4 memory, 120GB OCZ Vector 150 SSD, and 2560 x 1600 Samsung SyncMaster panel. On the software side the Catalyst 14.12 and NVIDIA 346.22 drivers were tested on Ubuntu 14.10 x86_64 with the Linux 3.16 kernel, Unity 7.3.1, and X.Org Server 1.16.0. All hardware/software settings were at their defaults.
All of the benchmarking was controlled in a fully-automated and reproducible manner using the Phoronix Test Suite software. The Metro 2033 Redux and Metro Last Light Redux game settings were at their defaults as when running the benchmark mode from the command-line the game doesn't seem to support any arguments for setting any visual quality options or adjusting away from the default resolution of the monitor (2560 x 1600 in this case), but hopefully that will be pushed down with a future Steam update.
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