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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 Through GeForce RTX 5080/5090 GPU Compute Performance
Complementing the recent Linux GPU benchmarks of the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5080 and GeForce RTX 5090 looking at both the Linux / Steam Play gaming performance as well as GPU compute and other areas, in today's testing is a wide multi-generation look seeing how the NVIDIA GeForce performance has evolved going back to the GeForce GTX 980 Maxwell GPUs up through the newest GeForce RTX 5080/5090 graphics cards. Today's testing is a big historical look at how far NVIDIA GPU compute performance has come since the GeForce GTX 980 'Maxwell' days up through the brand new GeForce RTX 5080 and RTX 5090 'Blackwell' graphics cards.
The GeForce GTX 900 Maxwell generation was the cut-off just as the oldest GPUs supported by the NVIDIA 550.144.03 legacy driver with Kepler being unsupported there. All of the x80, x90, and Titan graphics cards of each generation going back from Maxwell through Blackwell were (re)tested for this article on the same Intel Arrow Lake Linux desktop. Page 1 - IntroductionPage 2 - BlenderPage 3 - V-RAY + IndigoBench + FluidX3D CFDPage 4 - FluidX3D CFD + clpeak OpenCLPage 5 - GpuOwl + OpenCL Benchmarks + Llama.cppPage 6 - Llama.cpp + NAMD + Overall Metrics
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