NVIDIA Slaughters AMD Catalyst On Linux In OpenGL 4.x Micro-Benchmarks

Written by Michael Larabel in Display Drivers on 15 June 2014 at 12:30 AM EDT. Page 5 of 5. 61 Comments.

Besides the Radeon graphics cards routinely getting beaten by the NVIDIA GeForce graphics cards by wide margins, in several of the cases the AMD Catalyst driver couldn't even handle the tests.

APITest Linux NVIDIA vs. AMD
APITest Linux NVIDIA vs. AMD
APITest Linux NVIDIA vs. AMD
APITest Linux NVIDIA vs. AMD
APITest Linux NVIDIA vs. AMD

More of these benchmark results can be found on OpenBenchmarking.org via 1406068-KH-APITESTLI84.

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