Initial Linux Benchmarks Of The NVIDIA TITAN RTX Graphics Card For Compute & Gaming

Written by Michael Larabel in Graphics Cards on 22 December 2018 at 09:00 AM EST. Page 7 of 7. 18 Comments.
NVIDIA TITAN RTX Linux GPU Compute Benchmarks
NVIDIA TITAN RTX Linux GPU Compute Benchmarks
NVIDIA TITAN RTX Linux GPU Compute Benchmarks

That's the quick look at the NVIDIA TITAN RTX gaming performance under Linux with the tests carried out thus far.

NVIDIA TITAN RTX Linux GPU Compute Benchmarks

As for the power efficiency overall with the course of the many graphics tests carried out, the TITAN RTX did manage to deliver about 4% better power efficiency than the RTX 2080 Ti or 19% better than the GTX 1080 Ti and a 2.35x difference if you are still rocking a Maxwell TITAN X. The power efficiency of the current-generation AMD graphics cards continue only coming in line with the NVIDIA Maxwell~Pascal hardware.

NVIDIA TITAN RTX Linux GPU Compute Benchmarks

Under the gaming tests, the GPU core temperature of the TITAN RTX was a 65 degree average and a peak of 78 degrees.

NVIDIA TITAN RTX Linux GPU Compute Benchmarks

The overall AC system power consumption average on this Core i9 9900K box during testing was 270 Watts with the TITAN RTX and a 408 Watt peak, which is a few Watts lower than the Rx Vega 64.

If the $2499 price tag of the TITAN RTX is not a deterrent to you, this graphics card does offer stunning gaming and GPU compute performance potential, particularly for the latter with excellent FP16 performance thanks to the Turing architecture with tensor cores. At least under Linux it does appear to easily live up to NVIDIA's claim of being the world's most powerful desktop GPU as we end 2018. The TITAN RTX has been running great under Linux now in my albeit short time testing it out thus far with no driver issues to report. That's the initial data for sharing this holiday weekend while still throwing some more benchmarks at the TITAN RTX, stay tuned.

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