Nouveau Ubuntu 12.10 Unity 6.8
Benchmarking Unity 6.6 vs. Unity 6.8 desktops from ubuntu 12.10 Quantal to compare the performance under the open-source NVIDIA Nouveau graphics driver. Benchmarking for a future article on Phoronix.com.


Unity 6.6.0: 

	Processor: Intel Core i7 720Q @ 1.60GHz (8 Cores), Motherboard: LENOVO 4318CTO, Chipset: Intel Core DMI, Memory: 4096MB, Disk: 160GB INTEL SSDSA2M160, Graphics: NVIDIA Quadro FX 880M 1024MB (405/324MHz), Audio: Conexant CX20585, Network: Intel 82577LM Gigabit Connection + Intel Centrino Ultimate-N 6300

	OS: Ubuntu 12.10, Kernel: 3.6.0-030600-generic (x86_64), Desktop: Unity 6.6.0, Display Server: X Server 1.13.0, Display Driver: nouveau 1.0.2, OpenGL: 3.0 Mesa 9.0-devel Gallium 0.4, Compiler: GCC 4.7, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 1600x900

Unity 6.8.0: 

	Processor: Intel Core i7 720Q @ 1.60GHz (8 Cores), Motherboard: LENOVO 4318CTO, Chipset: Intel Core DMI, Memory: 4096MB, Disk: 160GB INTEL SSDSA2M160, Graphics: NVIDIA Quadro FX 880M 1024MB (405/324MHz), Audio: Conexant CX20585, Network: Intel 82577LM Gigabit Connection + Intel Centrino Ultimate-N 6300

	OS: Ubuntu 12.10, Kernel: 3.6.0-030600-generic (x86_64), Desktop: Unity 6.8.0, Display Server: X Server 1.13.0, Display Driver: nouveau 1.0.2, OpenGL: 3.0 Mesa 9.0-devel Gallium 0.4, Compiler: GCC 4.7, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 1600x900


Nexuiz 2.5.2
Resolution: 1600 x 900 - HDR: Yes - Sound: On
Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better
Unity 6.6.0 . 22.83 |==========================================================
Unity 6.8.0 . 22.80 |==========================================================


OpenArena 0.8.5
Resolution: 1600 x 900
Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better
Unity 6.6.0 . 63.37 |==========================================================
Unity 6.8.0 . 63.50 |==========================================================


OpenArena 0.8.8
Resolution: 1600 x 900
Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better
Unity 6.6.0 . 29.00 |==========================================================
Unity 6.8.0 . 29.03 |==========================================================


World of Padman 1.2
Resolution: 1600 x 900
Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better
Unity 6.6.0 . 97.50 |==========================================================
Unity 6.8.0 . 97.57 |==========================================================


VDrift 2010-06-30
Resolution: 1600 x 900
Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better
Unity 6.6.0 . 60.75 |==========================================================
Unity 6.8.0 . 60.74 |==========================================================


Warsow 1.0
Resolution: 1600 x 900
Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better
Unity 6.6.0 . 32.07 |==========================================================
Unity 6.8.0 . 32.23 |==========================================================


Xonotic 0.6
Resolution: 1600 x 900 - Effects Quality: Low
Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better
Unity 6.6.0 . 100.13 |=========================================================
Unity 6.8.0 . 99.77  |=========================================================


Xonotic 0.6
Resolution: 1600 x 900 - Effects Quality: High
Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better
Unity 6.6.0 . 37.77 |==========================================================
Unity 6.8.0 . 37.64 |==========================================================