Quad-Monitor AMD/NVIDIA Linux Gaming: What You Need To Know

With having the setup experience covered for the NVIDIA GeForce and AMD Radeon graphics cards on both the open and closed-source Linux graphics drivers, let's get to the benchmark results for running some popular Linux OpenGL tests in the quad-monitor single-card configurations.

The graphics cards to share benchmark results on today are the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 680, NVIDIA GeForce GTX 760, NVIDIA GeForce GTX 770, NVIDIA GeForce GTX TITAN, NVIDIA GeForce GTX 780 Ti, AMD Radeon HD 6950, and AMD Radeon R9 290. All testing except for the Radeon HD 6950 was done using the respective binary drivers, due to the aforementioned limitations. The range of graphics cards tested was limited based upon the aforementioned issues and the hardware I have access to.

An Intel Core i7 4770K "Haswell" system was powering this Ubuntu 13.10 system with the Linux 3.12 kernel. All benchmarks were facilitated via our flagship Phoronix Test Suite open-source benchmarking software.