The Performance-Per-Watt Of NVIDIA Fermi To Pascal, AMD R700 To Polaris Benchmarks
Written by Michael Larabel in Graphics Cards on 24 December 2016 at 10:00 AM EST. Page 3 of 6. 14 Comments.
As another game that can be easily tested on all of the hardware was Valve's Portal game...
With Portal the performance-per-Watt puts AMD's latest Polaris and Fiji cards as more competitive with NVIDIA's Maxwell and Pascal, but the GTX 1060/1070/1080 still have a much stronger showing. With Portal the perf-per-Watt when going from a GTX 460 to GTX 1060 on these latest Linux drivers is up by 7x! With the AMD hardware going from the HD 4890 (RV790) to R9 Fury is a 7.8x improvement.
The CPU usage when using the NVIDIA driver with OpenGL is indeed higher than the AMD Linux driver stack.