The Power Efficiency From A Radeon HD 4890 Through The RX 480 & R9 Fury

Written by Michael Larabel in Graphics Cards on 19 December 2016 at 11:49 AM EST. Page 3 of 5. 26 Comments.

Metro Last Light Redux only runs with OpenGL 4 support on Linux, which unfortunately for pre-GCN hardware is only supported with the HD 5800 / HD 6900 series having native FP64 support while the other cards on R600g don't yet have any soft FP64 support implemented. Thus for this game test it couldn't be run on all of the cards available.

Still, even from the HD 5830 to RX 480 / R9 Fury there is a big improvement in power efficiency.

Portal meanwhile easily runs on all the hardware tested and continues to scale into several hundred frames per second.

The Portal performance-per-Watt from the Radeon HD 4890 to Radeon R9 Fury is a 7.8x improvement!


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