NVIDIA GeForce vs. Radeon/AMDGPU OpenGL Performance On Ubuntu 16.04

Lastly, some synthetic results

The red team at least does well in the synthetic Furmark test that's known for warming up your GPU(s) well.

So while it's exciting that the open-source Radeon Linux driver stack is maturing and becoming much more competitive with Catalyst, the whole AMD Linux driver stack with regard to OpenGL performance still needs to be improved. In several of these tests, all of the tested AMD hardware was slower than all of the NVIDIA GeForce hardware -- to the point a GTX 950 can beat out a Radeon R9 Fury using this driver stack to be found by default on Ubuntu 16.04. Hopefully AMD will become more competitive with NVIDIA in the Linux Vulkan space, but we still have to see AMD publicly release their AMDGPU-based Vulkan driver.

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