NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070 On Linux: Testing With OpenGL, OpenCL, CUDA & Vulkan

14 June 2016

"NVIDIA sent over a GeForce GTX 1070 and I've been putting it through its paces under Linux with a variety of OpenGL, OpenCL, and Vulkan benchmarks along with CUDA and deep learning benchmarks. Here's the first look at the GeForce GTX 1070 performance under Ubuntu Linux.

In conjunction with the NVIDIA 367 proprietary driver on Linux, the GeForce GTX 1070 ran into no difficulties running under Ubuntu Linux throughout my initial testing. As noted in my GTX 1080 Linux review, there wasn't any overclocking support available when enabling the CoolBits options and this is a similar limitation with the GTX 1070 (yesterday NVIDIA did release a new 367 Linux driver that I have yet to test but its official change-log at least didn't make note of any overclocking additions).

Since my earlier GTX 1080 review, nothing has changed with regards to the open-source driver support. I have yet to see any experimental patches published for at least kernel mode-setting in Nouveau while any accelerated support for Pascal will not happen until NVIDIA is able to release the signed firmware binary images for usage by the Nouveau driver. I haven't received any word from NVIDIA Corp yet when that Pascal firmware availability is expected, but at least the proprietary driver support is in good shape.

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 Well, that's all the initial data I have to share on the GeForce GTX 1070 after hammering it under Linux the past 24 hours. The GeForce GTX 1070 is a very nice upgrade over the GeForce GTX 900 series and especially if you are still using a Kepler graphics card or later. In many of our Linux benchmarks, the GeForce GTX 1070 was around 60% faster than the GTX 970! The GTX 1070 was commonly beating the GTX 980 Ti and GTX TITAN X while the GeForce GTX 1080 still delivers the maximum performance possible for a desktop graphics card at this time. The GTX 1070 (and GTX 1080) aren't only stunning for their raw performance but the power efficiency is also a significant push forward. Particularly when the GeForce GTX 1070 AIB cards begin appearing in the coming weeks at $399, the GeForce GTX 1070 should be a very nice option for Linux gamers looking to get the maximum performance for 1440p or 4K gaming. It will be fun to see later this month how the Radeon RX 480 compares, but considering the state of the Radeon Linux drivers, chances are you'll want to stick to the green side for the best Linux gaming experience unless you are a devout user of open-source drivers."

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