AMD Radeon HD 7950 On Linux: Southern Islands Isn't Yet A Penguin Holiday
Using the fglrx 8.95 binary driver, the Radeon graphics cards that were tested for comparison to the XFX Radeon HD 7950 3GB (900/1375MHz) was a Radeon HD 6950 2GB (800/1250MHz), Radeon HD 6870 1GB (900/1050MHz), Radeon HD 5830 1GB (800/1000MHz), Radeon HD 5770 1GB (850/1200MHz), and Radeon HD 4890 1GB (900/975MHz). On the NVIDIA side with their binary 295.20 driver was a GeForce GTX 460 768MB and GeForce GTX 550 Ti 1GB. The graphics cards used for the Linux comparison were limited to the hardware available.
These graphics cards were tested from an Ubuntu 12.04 LTS system with an Intel Core i7 3960X Sandy Bridge Extreme Edition system that was overclocked to 4.5GHz. A Samsung 30-inch 2560 x 1600 DVI display was connected to each of the graphics cards. All benchmarking was facilitated in an automated manner using the Phoronix Test Suite and OpenBenchmarking.org.