R500 Texture Semaphore
R500 Texture Sempahore benchmarking from Tom Stellard's tex-sem branch as of 6 October. Testing compared to mainline Mesa and with varying RADEON_TEX_GROUP values.


Reference: 

	Processor: Intel Core i5-2500K @ 3.30GHz (4 Cores), Motherboard: SAPPHIRE Pure Black P67 Hydra, Chipset: Intel 2nd Generation Core Family, Memory: 3072MB, Disk: 500GB Western Digital WDC WD5000AAKX-0, Graphics: AMD Radeon X1800, Audio: Realtek ALC892, Monitor: DELL P2210H, Network: Marvell 88E8057 PCI-E Gigabit

	OS: Ubuntu 11.10, Kernel: 3.1.0-999-generic (x86_64), Desktop: Unity 4.22.0, Display Server: X Server 1.10.4, Display Driver: radeon 6.14.99, OpenGL: 2.1 Mesa 7.12-devel (git-09fcd01) Gallium 0.4, Compiler: GCC 4.6.1 + llvm 2.8 (Ubuntu 2.8-7build1), File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 1920x1080

RADEON_TEX_GROUP=2: 

	Processor: Intel Core i5-2500K @ 3.30GHz (4 Cores), Motherboard: SAPPHIRE Pure Black P67 Hydra, Chipset: Intel 2nd Generation Core Family, Memory: 3072MB, Disk: 500GB Western Digital WDC WD5000AAKX-0, Graphics: AMD Radeon X1800, Audio: Realtek ALC892, Monitor: DELL P2210H, Network: Marvell 88E8057 PCI-E Gigabit

	OS: Ubuntu 11.10, Kernel: 3.1.0-999-generic (x86_64), Desktop: Unity 4.22.0, Display Server: X Server 1.10.4, Display Driver: radeon 6.14.99, OpenGL: 2.1 Mesa 7.12-devel (git-ca80b50) Gallium 0.4, Compiler: GCC 4.6.1 + llvm 2.8 (Ubuntu 2.8-7build1), File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 1920x1080

RADEON_TEX_GROUP=4: 

	Processor: Intel Core i5-2500K @ 3.30GHz (4 Cores), Motherboard: SAPPHIRE Pure Black P67 Hydra, Chipset: Intel 2nd Generation Core Family, Memory: 3072MB, Disk: 500GB Western Digital WDC WD5000AAKX-0, Graphics: AMD Radeon X1800, Audio: Realtek ALC892, Monitor: DELL P2210H, Network: Marvell 88E8057 PCI-E Gigabit

	OS: Ubuntu 11.10, Kernel: 3.1.0-999-generic (x86_64), Desktop: Unity 4.22.0, Display Server: X Server 1.10.4, Display Driver: radeon 6.14.99, OpenGL: 2.1 Mesa 7.12-devel (git-ca80b50) Gallium 0.4, Compiler: GCC 4.6.1 + llvm 2.8 (Ubuntu 2.8-7build1), File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 1920x1080

RADEON_TEX_GROUP=8: 

	Processor: Intel Core i5-2500K @ 3.30GHz (4 Cores), Motherboard: SAPPHIRE Pure Black P67 Hydra, Chipset: Intel 2nd Generation Core Family, Memory: 3072MB, Disk: 500GB Western Digital WDC WD5000AAKX-0, Graphics: AMD Radeon X1800, Audio: Realtek ALC892, Monitor: DELL P2210H, Network: Marvell 88E8057 PCI-E Gigabit

	OS: Ubuntu 11.10, Kernel: 3.1.0-999-generic (x86_64), Desktop: Unity 4.22.0, Display Server: X Server 1.10.4, Display Driver: radeon 6.14.99, OpenGL: 2.1 Mesa 7.12-devel (git-ca80b50) Gallium 0.4, Compiler: GCC 4.6.1 + llvm 2.8 (Ubuntu 2.8-7build1), File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 1920x1080

RADEON_TEX_GROUP=12: 

	Processor: Intel Core i5-2500K @ 3.30GHz (4 Cores), Motherboard: SAPPHIRE Pure Black P67 Hydra, Chipset: Intel 2nd Generation Core Family, Memory: 3072MB, Disk: 500GB Western Digital WDC WD5000AAKX-0, Graphics: AMD Radeon X1800, Audio: Realtek ALC892, Monitor: DELL P2210H, Network: Marvell 88E8057 PCI-E Gigabit

	OS: Ubuntu 11.10, Kernel: 3.1.0-999-generic (x86_64), Desktop: Unity 4.22.0, Display Server: X Server 1.10.4, Display Driver: radeon 6.14.99, OpenGL: 2.1 Mesa 7.12-devel (git-ca80b50) Gallium 0.4, Compiler: GCC 4.6.1 + llvm 2.8 (Ubuntu 2.8-7build1), File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 1920x1080

RADEON_TEX_GROUP=16: 

	Processor: Intel Core i5-2500K @ 3.30GHz (4 Cores), Motherboard: SAPPHIRE Pure Black P67 Hydra, Chipset: Intel 2nd Generation Core Family, Memory: 3072MB, Disk: 500GB Western Digital WDC WD5000AAKX-0, Graphics: AMD Radeon X1800, Audio: Realtek ALC892, Monitor: DELL P2210H, Network: Marvell 88E8057 PCI-E Gigabit

	OS: Ubuntu 11.10, Kernel: 3.1.0-999-generic (x86_64), Desktop: Unity 4.22.0, Display Server: X Server 1.10.4, Display Driver: radeon 6.14.99, OpenGL: 2.1 Mesa 7.12-devel (git-ca80b50) Gallium 0.4, Compiler: GCC 4.6.1 + llvm 2.8 (Ubuntu 2.8-7build1), File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 1920x1080


Nexuiz 2.5.2
Resolution: 1920 x 1080 - HDR: No - Sound: Off
Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better
Reference ........... 4.66  |========
RADEON_TEX_GROUP=2 .. 5.58  |=========
RADEON_TEX_GROUP=4 .. 30.08 |==================================================
RADEON_TEX_GROUP=8 .. 29.79 |==================================================
RADEON_TEX_GROUP=12 . 29.85 |==================================================
RADEON_TEX_GROUP=16 . 24.84 |=========================================


Lightsmark 2008
Resolution: 1920 x 1080
Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better
Reference ........... 28.28 |======================================
RADEON_TEX_GROUP=2 .. 26.68 |===================================
RADEON_TEX_GROUP=4 .. 28.74 |======================================
RADEON_TEX_GROUP=8 .. 37.34 |==================================================
RADEON_TEX_GROUP=12 . 37.64 |==================================================
RADEON_TEX_GROUP=16 . 37.61 |==================================================


VDrift 2010-06-30
Resolution: 1920 x 1080
Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better
Reference ........... 34.94 |=================================================
RADEON_TEX_GROUP=2 .. 34.31 |================================================
RADEON_TEX_GROUP=4 .. 34.50 |================================================
RADEON_TEX_GROUP=8 .. 35.39 |=================================================
RADEON_TEX_GROUP=12 . 32.47 |=============================================
RADEON_TEX_GROUP=16 . 35.81 |==================================================


Warsow 0.61
Resolution: 1920 x 1080
Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better
Reference ........... 9.87  |================================================
RADEON_TEX_GROUP=2 .. 9.73  |===============================================
RADEON_TEX_GROUP=4 .. 9.73  |===============================================
RADEON_TEX_GROUP=8 .. 10.17 |==================================================
RADEON_TEX_GROUP=12 . 10.27 |==================================================
RADEON_TEX_GROUP=16 . 10.07 |=================================================