Massive 60+ GPU Linux testing by Phoronix

by Pete Vagiakos · June 4, 2014

Phoronix turns 10 years old (congrats guys!) and to celebrate, they decided to do a huge GPU comparison test, using Linux Open Source drives. And huge is not an understatement here.

They tested more than 60 GPUs from all major players, which amounts to weeks of testing and benchmarking. Here’s a peek:

In this article the OpenGL performance for this vast assortment of graphics cards from over the years is being tested using the latest open-source graphics driver code for thee three big vendors. This article is just part one while other upcoming articles to round out this testing include: a look at the Linux 2D acceleration performance for many of these GPUs, delivering an article that looks at these graphics results when measuring the power consumption / performance-per-Watt / GPU temperatures, and then lastly is re-doing all of the graphics card testing but using the proprietary AMD and NVIDIA Linux graphics drivers. I’ve been working on this set of articles for the massive Linux GPU drivers for weeks in celebration of Phoronix turning ten years old.

The only restrictions for this massive Linux graphics processor comparison were limited to GPUs within my possession that were PCI Express compatible or when it came to the integrated Intel HD Graphics, the available Haswell CPUs. The GPUs tested cover both low and high-end GPUs and go back several generations on the AMD and NVIDIA side. The GPUs I had available for testing in this article included:

Intel HD Graphics 4400 (Core i3 4130)
Intel HD Graphics 4600 (Core i7 4770K)
AMD Radeon X800XL 256MB
AMD Radeon X1800XL 256MB
AMD Radeon X1800XT 256MB
AMD Radeon X1950PRO 256MB
AMD Radeon HD 2600PRO 256MB
AMD Radeon HD 2900XT 512MB
AMD Radeon HD 3650 512MB
AMD Radeon HD 3850 256MB
AMD Radeon HD 4550 512MB
AMD Radeon HD 4650 512MB
AMD Radeon HD 4670 512MB
AMD Radeon HD 4770 512MB
AMD Radeon HD 4830 512MB
AMD Radeon HD 4850 512MB
AMD Radeon HD 4870 512MB
AMD Radeon HD 4870 X2 2GB
AMD Radeon HD 4890 1GB
AMD Radeon HD 5450 512MB
AMD Radeon HD 5750 1GB
AMD Radeon HD 5770 1GB
AMD Radeon HD 5830 1GB
AMD Radeon HD 6450 1GB
AMD Radeon HD 6570 1GB
AMD Radeon HD 6770 1GB
AMD Radeon HD 6870 1GB
AMD Radeon HD 6950 2GB
AMD Radeon HD 7850 1GB
AMD Radeon HD 7950 3GB
AMD Radeon R7 260X 2GB
AMD Radeon R9 270X 2GB
AMD Radeon R9 290 4GB
AMD FirePro V3800 512MB
AMD FirePro V4800 1GB
AMD FirePro V4900 1GB
AMD FirePro V5800 1GB
AMD FirePro V5900 2GB
AMD FirePro V7800 2GB
AMD FirePro V7900 2GB
AMD FireGL V8600 1GB
AMD FirePro V8700 1GB
AMD FirePro V8750 2GB
AMD FirePro V8800 2GB
NVIDIA GeForce 8500GT 256MB
NVIDIA GeForce 8600GT 256MB
NVIDIA GeForce 8800GT 256MB
NVIDIA GeForce 9500GT 1024MB
NVIDIA GeForce 9600GSO 512MB
NVIDIA GeForce 9800GT 512MB
NVIDIA GeForce 9800GTX 512MB
NVIDIA GeForce GT 220 1GB
NVIDIA GeForce GT 240 512MB
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 460 768MB
NVIDIA GeForce GT 520 1024MB
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 550 Ti 1GB
NVIDIA GeForce GT 610 1GB
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 650 1GB
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 680 2GB
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 750 1GB
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 750 Ti
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 760 2GB
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 770 2GB
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 780 Ti 3GB
NVIDIA GeForce GTX TITAN 6GB