Intel i965 Gallium3D Mesa Performance
Benchmarking the experimental Intel i965 Gallium3D driver compared to the i965 classic Mesa DRi driver. Benchmarking from an Intel Core i7 Ivy Bridge processor with Intel HD 4000 graphics. OpenGL benchmarking from Ubuntu 13.04. Testing by Michael Larabel for a future article on Phoronix.com.


i965 Gallium3D: 

	Processor: Intel Core i7-3517UE @ 2.10GHz (4 Cores), Motherboard: CompuLab Intense-PC, Chipset: Intel 3rd Gen Core DRAM, Memory: 8192MB, Disk: 500GB Hitachi HCC54755, Graphics: Intel 3rd Gen Core, Audio: Realtek ALC888, Monitor: Acer P243W, Network: Intel 82579LM Gigabit Connection + Realtek RTL8188CE 802.11b/g/n

	OS: Ubuntu 13.04, Kernel: 3.9.0-999-generic (x86_64), Desktop: Unity 6.6.0, Display Server: X Server 1.13.3, Display Driver: intel 2.21.5, OpenGL: 2.1 Mesa 9.2.0 (git-10004a0) Gallium 0.4, Compiler: GCC 4.7 + LLVM 3.2, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 1920x1200

i965 Classic Mesa: 

	Processor: Intel Core i7-3517UE @ 2.10GHz (4 Cores), Motherboard: CompuLab Intense-PC, Chipset: Intel 3rd Gen Core DRAM, Memory: 8192MB, Disk: 500GB Hitachi HCC54755, Graphics: Intel 3rd Gen Core, Audio: Realtek ALC888, Monitor: Acer P243W, Network: Intel 82579LM Gigabit Connection + Realtek RTL8188CE 802.11b/g/n

	OS: Ubuntu 13.04, Kernel: 3.9.0-999-generic (x86_64), Desktop: Unity 6.6.0, Display Server: X Server 1.13.3, Display Driver: intel 2.21.5, OpenGL: 3.0 Mesa 9.2.0 (git-10004a0), Compiler: GCC 4.7 + LLVM 3.2, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 1920x1200


Xonotic 0.6
Resolution: 1920 x 1200 - Effects Quality: High
Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better
i965 Gallium3D .... 21.41 |============================
i965 Classic Mesa . 39.89 |====================================================


Xonotic 0.6
Resolution: 1920 x 1200 - Effects Quality: Low
Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better
i965 Gallium3D .... 45.19 |===========================
i965 Classic Mesa . 86.31 |====================================================


Xonotic 0.6
Resolution: 1024 x 768 - Effects Quality: High
Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better
i965 Gallium3D .... 34.24 |=======================
i965 Classic Mesa . 77.73 |====================================================


Xonotic 0.6
Resolution: 1024 x 768 - Effects Quality: Low
Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better
i965 Gallium3D .... 77.97  |===============================
i965 Classic Mesa . 128.46 |===================================================


Warsow 1.0
Resolution: 1920 x 1200
Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better
i965 Gallium3D .... 21.50 |==============================
i965 Classic Mesa . 37.07 |====================================================


Urban Terror 4.1
Resolution: 1920 x 1200
Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better
i965 Gallium3D .... 38.90 |============================
i965 Classic Mesa . 70.98 |====================================================


Reaction Quake 3 1.0 Beta
Resolution: 1920 x 1200
Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better
i965 Gallium3D .... 32.67 |===========================
i965 Classic Mesa . 62.87 |====================================================


Reaction Quake 3 1.0 Beta
Resolution: 1280 x 1024
Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better
i965 Gallium3D .... 32.60 |===========================
i965 Classic Mesa . 62.83 |====================================================


World of Padman 1.2
Resolution: 1920 x 1200
Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better
i965 Gallium3D .... 56.57  |======================
i965 Classic Mesa . 131.83 |===================================================


OpenArena 0.8.8
Resolution: 1920 x 1200
Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better
i965 Gallium3D .... 18.27 |===================================
i965 Classic Mesa . 27.10 |====================================================


OpenArena 0.8.8
Resolution: 800 x 600
Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better
i965 Gallium3D .... 46.87  |========================
i965 Classic Mesa . 100.87 |===================================================


OpenArena 0.8.5
Resolution: 1920 x 1200
Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better
i965 Gallium3D .... 65.00  |========================
i965 Classic Mesa . 138.47 |===================================================


Nexuiz 2.5.2
Resolution: 1920 x 1200 - HDR: Yes - Sound: Off
Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better
i965 Gallium3D .... 15.97 |=====================================
i965 Classic Mesa . 22.34 |====================================================


Nexuiz 2.5.2
Resolution: 1280 x 1024 - HDR: Yes - Sound: Off
Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better
i965 Gallium3D .... 10.59 |=================
i965 Classic Mesa . 31.48 |====================================================