Latest AMDGPU-PRO Ubuntu Linux Performance vs. NVIDIA, Including The GTX 1080

The AMDGPU-PRO driver hadn't worked with some of our newer OpenCL benchmarks in the test suite like FinanceBench and Mixbench, but it did work with some of the other GPGPU compute tests... At least more than the Clover-based open-source OpenCL support.

While AMDGPU-PRO was working, the performance was much lower than the NVIDIA hardware and their binary driver. Clearly still some AMDGPU-PRO issues in this test with the R9 Fury being even slower than the R9 285 and R9 290, which is why the above capped result was still left in.

The more-realistic single-precision FFT test in SHOC showed the Radeon hardware on AMDGPU-PRO still being a great deal behind even the GTX 760.

The MD5 hashing test in SHOC at least performed well on the AMDGPU-PRO driver, but the R9 Fury was still coming up short of the GTX 980.

The texture read speed with SHOC was still showing issues for AMDGPU-PRO with the R9 290 being faster than the R9 Fury, but still being slower than two generation old mid-range NVIDIA GPUs.

With LuxMark the Radeon R9 Fury results appeared to be very competitive with NVIDIA -- even competing with the GTX 1080 -- but this seems to be an extreme outlier and in stark contrast to our other OpenCL results, so who know's what's going on here.