22 NVIDIA and AMD Cards Put To The Test in SteamOS – Team Green Takes The Lead By a Massive Margin
When SteamOS launched, it was a public release but in Beta state. That it still is but it is being updated from time to time, adding enhancements to the UI, improving performance and providing a more robust experience.
Since the OS is Linux based, we have seen a majority of hardware manufacturers are optimizing their products to be well suited for the new OS. The task is quite important for CPU and GPU makers but more critical for GPU makers as Linux is well-optimized on the CPU side but still needed work on the GPU side. The GPU side pushed their focus to Linux when a mass migration of PC users installed SteamOS on their platform as soon as the OS launched.
Looking at the influx of PC gamers, GPU vendors went in action to optimize gaming performance on SteamOS as they did if before on Windows and OSX platforms.
Phoronix, a well-known technology website that primarily focuses on Linux hardware has assembled a vast test setup to determine the current state of gaming performance on SteamOS. In late June, Valve announced their latest SteamOS 2.0 version codenamed Brewmaster based on the latest Debian 8.1 stable release. A few days ago, the 2.40 version was also released with additional patches but overall, both versions are somewhat similar when comparing core features. Phoronix did a really well job by pitting 22 NVIDIA and AMD cards against each other to get to know what kind of performance numbers that both vendors are pumping out with their current and older GPU releases. The NVIDIA cards were tested with the GeForce 352.30 and AMD cards were tested on the Catalyst 15.9 driver since that is what the SteamOS 2.0 Brewmaster currently allows. Do note that 15.9 is the latest driver available for AMD hardware while NVIDIA has launched GeForce 358.50 that adds significant performance improvements. Following is a list of cards that were tested, they range from Kepler to Maxwell on the NVIDIA front and HD 6000 series up to the Radeon R9 Fury on the AMD front.
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 460 768MB
eVGA NVIDIA GeForce GTX 550 Ti 1024MB
Zotac NVIDIA GeForce GT 610 1024MB
MSI NVIDIA GeForce GTX 650 1024MB
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 680 2048MB
eVGA NVIDIA GeForce GTX 750 1024MB
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 750 Ti 2048MB
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 760 2048MB
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 780 Ti 3072MB
eVGA NVIDIA GeForce GTX 950 2048MB
eVGA NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960 2048MB
eVGA NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970 4096MB
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 4096MB
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 Ti 6144MB
NVIDIA GeForce GTX TITAN X 12288MB
Sapphire AMD Radeon HD 6570 512MB
Sapphire AMD Radeon HD 6870 1024MB
Sapphire AMD Radeon HD 6950 2048MB
XFX AMD Radeon HD 7950 3072MB
XFX AMD Radeon R9 285 2048MB
XFX AMD Radeon R9 290 4096MB
Sapphire AMD Radeon R9 Fury 4096MB
AMD and NVIDIA Gaming Performance in SteamOS 2.0:
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http://wccftech.com/nvdia-amd-steamos-gaming-performance/