AMD Radeon R9 270X On Linux

Written by Michael Larabel in Graphics Cards on 22 October 2013 at 12:53 PM EDT. Page 4 of 10. 17 Comments.

For comparing the performance of the Radeon R9 270X graphics card on Linux, the comparison Radeon GPUs I used were the Radeon HD 5830, HD 6870, HD 6950, HD 7850, and HD 7950 graphics cards. On the NVIDIA side was the GeForce GTX 460, GT 520, GTX 550 Ti, and GTX 680. The comparison of NVIDIA GeForce and AMD Radeon graphics cards used for evaluating the R9 270X graphics card were limited to the graphics cards I had on hand.

When it comes to overclocking the Gigabyte Radeon R9 270X graphics card, the card could be pushed from 1050MHz with 1400MHz core to a 1200MHz core and about 1550MHz for its video memory. The AMD GPU overclocking has to be done with OverDrive in the Catalyst driver via the amdconfig utility. While overclocking isn't our main focus at Phoronix, with 1200MHz / 1550MHz clock speeds the graphics card was stable for a majority of the tests but there would be an occasional lock-up, at 1180 / 1520MHz the system was stable throughout all testing.

The system setup was based around the Intel Core i7 4770K "Haswell" system with a 240GB OCZ Vertex 3 SSD with 16GB of RAM. Ubuntu 13.04 x86_64 was used during all testing with the Linux 3.10 kernel, Unity 7.0 desktop and X.Org Server 1.13.3. Catalyst 13.11 Beta is the fglrx 13.20.6 driver and OpenGL 4.3.12458 version. For the NVIDIA driver testing was NVIDIA 331.13 with OpenGL 4.4.0.

AMD Radeon R9 270X Linux Benchmarks

All Linux GPU benchmarking was handled in a fully automated and streamlined manner using the open-source Phoronix Test Suite software with test results and data then archived on OpenBenchmarking.org. So finally, here are our AMD Radeon R9 270X Linux benchmark results!


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