15-Way OpenCL Comparison With NVIDIA On Linux, ROCm 1.6 For Radeon

For those interested in the Ethereum Ethminer performance, the NVIDIA GPUs were dominating and the R9 Fury with ROCm 1.6 was coming in behind a GeForce GTX 970.

And a look at the Ethminer performance-per-Watt for energy efficient mining... the GeForce GTX 1070 topped this chart.

Lastly is a look at each GPU's system power consumption during the entire duration of the OpenCL benchmarks executed for this article.

If you wish to see how your own Linux OpenCL system(s) compare to these Radeon ROCm 1.6 and NVIDIA OpenCL results, simply install the Phoronix Test Suite and run phoronix-test-suite benchmark 1707100-PTS-OPENCLAM71. Overall, Radeon Open Compute appears to be maturing nicely. There still are some areas where the Radeon results are abnormal, but for the most part are becoming more competitive with NVIDIA than in the past. And the benefit of ROCm is AMD's OpenCL stack is now fully open-source albeit it still appears to be a while before all of the system component changes will be mainlined to their respective projects, thus it's not yet trivial to deploy ROCm OpenCL except for on the few supported distributions by AMD.