Overclocking The Radeon RX 580 Under Linux Yesterday I posted the initial Radeon RX 580 Linux benchmarks while now with having more time with this “Polaris Evolved” card I’ve been able to try out a bit more, like the AMDGPU Linux overclocking support. Here are the ups and downs of overclocking the Radeon graphics card …
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AMD Ryzen 7 1800X Linux Benchmarks
AMD Ryzen 7 1800X Linux Benchmarks The day many of you have been waiting for is finally here: AMD Zen (Ryzen) processors are shipping! Thanks to AMD coming around at the last minute, I received a Ryzen 7 1800X yesterday evening and have been putting it through its paces. Here is my walkthrough of the …
Intel Celeron G3930 On Linux: A Dual-Core Kabylake CPU
Intel Celeron G3930 On Linux: A Dual-Core Kabylake CPU Earlier this week we posted Linux benchmarks of the Intel Pentium G4600 as a 3.6GHz processor for around $90 USD. It was an interesting processor for the value, but if your wallet is tighter, the Celeron G3930 is selling for about $40 as a dual-core sub-3GHz …
Intel Core i7 7700K Linux Benchmarks
Intel Core i7 7700K Linux Benchmarks If you have been curious how well Intel’s new Core i7 7700K “Kabylake” processor performs under Linux, I received his CPU a few days ago and have begun putting it through its paces. Here are my initial i7-7700K Linux benchmarks compared to various other Intel CPUs running Clear Linux… …
Intel Kaby Lake Linux Testing With MSI’s Cubi 2 Mini PC
Intel Kaby Lake Linux Testing With MSI’s Cubi 2 Mini PC Kaby Lake mobile processors began shipping last month and while we’ve seen a number of laptop designs using these processors that succeed Skylake, so far the Intel NUCs haven’t surfaced nor many other SFF PCs making use of the next-generation hardware. That changed last …
MSI X99A Workstation Motherboard Runs Nicely On Linux
MSI X99A Workstation Motherboard Runs Nicely On Linux The past few weeks I’ve been testing out the MSI X99A Workstation motherboard courtesy of MSI Computer and it’s been working out very well across a spectrum of open-source Linux (as well as BSD) use-cases for those in need of a LGA-2011 v3 motherboard… at Phoronix
AMD Radeon RX 480 Graphics Card On Linux Review
AMD Radeon RX 480 Graphics Card On Linux Review After weeks of anticipation, AMD’s high-end Radeon RX 480 “Polaris” graphics card is officially launching today! This graphics card starts at just $199 USD (or $239 USD for the 8GB version) and has day-one Linux support! There’s available open-source driver support as well as an AMDGPU-PRO …
How Ubuntu 16.04 Is Performing Compared To Five Other Linux Distributions
How Ubuntu 16.04 Is Performing Compared To Five Other Linux Distributions As it’s been a month since our last large Linux distribution comparison (a 10-way Linux distribution battle), here are some fresh benchmarks of six Linux distributions to see how their out-of-the-box performance compares. From a Core i7 Broadwell system, the updated versions of Clear …
NVIDIA GeForce GT 710: Trying NVIDIA’s Newest Sub-$50 GPU On Linux
NVIDIA GeForce GT 710: Trying NVIDIA’s Newest Sub-$50 GPU On Linux At the end of January NVIDIA rolled out the GeForce GT 710. This isn’t some shiny new low-end Maxwell card, but rather from the Kepler lineage and retails for under $50 USD as a discrete solution to compete with integrated Intel and AMD graphics. …
1080p NVIDIA Linux Comparison From GeForce 8 To GeForce 900 Series
1080p NVIDIA Linux Comparison From GeForce 8 To GeForce 900 Series Earlier this week I carried out an OpenGL performance comparison of NVIDIA GPUs going back 10 years that included 27 different graphics cards from the GeForce 8 series through the latest-generation GeForce 900 Maxwell graphics cards. In this weekend article are some complementary tests …
AMD’s Vulkan (Linux) Driver Will Only Work With The AMDGPU Kernel Driver
AMD’s Vulkan (Linux) Driver Will Only Work With The AMDGPU Kernel Driver I’ve just received confirmation from AMD that their forthcoming Vulkan driver will only work with the AMDGPU DRM kernel driver. This means that unless this AMDGPU kernel driver is extended to support pre-VI hardware, only the very latest AMD GPUs on Linux will …
Intel Broadwell/Skylake Graphics Performance For Steam Linux Gaming
Intel Broadwell/Skylake Graphics Performance For Steam Linux Gaming Complementing yesterday’s Are The Open-Source Graphics Drivers Good Enough For Steam Linux Gaming? article is a look at the Steam Linux gaming performance for three different Intel Linux systems running Ubuntu 15.10 and firing up the latest Steam client. This is the last of the planned series …
Intel Broadwell Iris Pro Graphics: Windows 10 vs. Linux
Intel Broadwell Iris Pro Graphics: Windows 10 vs. Linux Resulting from the What Windows 10 vs. Linux Benchmarks Would You Like To See and The Phoronix Test Suite Is Running On Windows 10, here are our first benchmarks comparing the performance of Microsoft’s newly released Windows 10 Pro x64 against Fedora 22 when looking at …
AMD’s Latest Open-Source Driver On Linux Is Getting Competitive With Catalyst 15.7
AMD’s Latest Open-Source Driver On Linux Is Getting Competitive With Catalyst 15.7 With the big Catalyst 15.7 Linux driver update released last week and the continued evolution of the open-source AMD Linux driver in the Linux kernel and Mesa Gallium3D, here are fresh benchmarks of six different AMD Radeon graphics cards when being tested on …
AMD Catalyst Linux OpenGL Driver Now Faster Than Windows Driver In Some Tests
AMD Catalyst Linux OpenGL Driver Now Faster Than Windows Driver In Some Tests Earlier this week I showed benchmarks of AMD’s incredible year for their open-source Linux driver and how the open-source Radeon Gallium3D driver moved closer to performance parity with Catalyst. One of the lingering questions though is how does the Catalyst 14.12 Omega …
AMD Catalyst 14.12 Omega Driver Brings Mixed Results For Linux Users
AMD Catalyst 14.12 Omega Driver Brings Mixed Results For Linux Users There are some significant performance improvements to find with this week’s Linux version of the AMD Catalyst 14.12 “Omega” driver, but there’s also some Linux OpenGL performance regressions to note too. Feedback from the Linux community as well to this new driver has been …
PC Gaming on Ubuntu Linux
In this article I’m going to be talking about PC gaming with Ubuntu Linux. I will discuss several areas that at the end I hope will give you a better understanding of PC gaming on a Linux based OS and how it compares to traditional Windows PC gaming that you may be considering moving away from or to try something different. While I will give examples and basic instructions within Ubuntu. This article is not meant to a full guide on using Ubuntu, and as such, if there are sections that you have trouble understanding or want more help or information, askubuntu.com is a great place for help with specific problems or questions you may have with the OS. That being said, let’s get started!
Intel Bay Trail NUC Linux Performance Preview
Intel Bay Trail NUC Linux Performance Preview Last week on Phoronix I shared my initial impressions of the Intel “Bay Trail” NUC Kit when running Ubuntu Linux. I’ve been impressed by the size, features, and price of this barebones Intel system sporting a low-power SoC with built-in HD Graphics capabilities that work well under Linux. …
SteamOS vs. Ubuntu 13.10 Linux Benchmarks
SteamOS vs. Ubuntu 13.10 Linux Benchmarks Complementing the SteamOS vs. Windows 8.1 performance benchmarks published earlier in the week, here are more NVIDIA OpenGL Linux benchmarks when comparing Valve’s Debian-based SteamOS performance to Ubuntu 13.10. Source: Phoronix
AMD APU On Linux: Gallium3D Can Be 80%+ As Fast As Catalyst
AMD APU On Linux: Gallium3D Can Be 80%+ As Fast As Catalyst After running earlier this week a 21-way graphics card comparison with Intel, AMD, and NVIDIA GPUs, there were requests by some Phoronix readers to see some new APU performance numbers. For ending out November, here’s new Catalyst vs. Gallium3D driver benchmarks on Ubuntu …
AMD Radeon R9 290 Graphics Card on Linux Review
AMD Radeon R9 290 Graphics Card on Linux Review AMD unveiled the Radeon R9 290 graphics card at the beginning of November as one step down from the new flagship Radeon R9 290X graphics card. Numerous Windows reviews praised the graphics card for its great performance, but what wasn’t clear at the time was how …
NVIDIA GeForce GT 610 Video Card On Linux Review
NVIDIA GeForce GT 610 Video Card On Linux Review If you are after a low-end graphics card for use on Linux, up for review today is the Zotac GeForce GT 610 Synergy 1GB graphics card that sells for less than $50 USD. The results in this Linux hardware review compare the GT 610 to a …
Windows 8 Beats Ubuntu Linux For Intel “Haswell” OpenGL Performance
Windows 8 Beats Ubuntu Linux For Intel “Haswell” OpenGL Performance While we have published many Linux articles about Intel Haswell since the debut of the processors a month and a half ago, coming out now are our first benchmarks of the Microsoft Windows 8 performance against Ubuntu 13.10 Linux when using an Intel Core i7 …
Direct3D 9 Support Released For Linux Via Gallium3D, Running Games
Direct3D 9 Support Released For Linux Via Gallium3D, Running Games Linux desktop systems can now have working support for Microsoft’s Direct3D 9 API via a new Gallium3D state tracker. Unlike the earlier Direct3D 10/11 state tracker for Gallium3D on Linux, this new code actually can run D3D9 games and at better performance than what’s offered …
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