Radeon Gallium3D MSAA Linux
Some Radeon HD 6950 R600 Gallium3D MSAA anti-aliasing benchmarks using the GALLIUM_MSAA environment variable. Tests by Michael Larabel for a future article on Phoronix.com.


No AA: 

	Processor: AMD A10-6800K APU @ 4.70GHz (4 Cores), Motherboard: MSI FM2-A85XA-G65 (MS-7793) v1.0, Chipset: AMD Family 15h, Memory: 8192MB, Disk: 64GB OCZ AGILITY, Graphics: Sapphire AMD Radeon HD 6950 2048MB, Audio: Realtek ALC892, Monitor: SyncMaster, Network: Realtek RTL8111/8168/8411

	OS: Ubuntu 13.10, Kernel: 3.13.0-999-generic (x86_64), Desktop: Unity 7.1.2, Display Server: X Server 1.14.3, Display Driver: radeon 7.2.99, OpenGL: 3.1 Mesa 10.1.0-devel (git-5b331f6 saucy-oibaf-ppa) Gallium 0.4, Compiler: GCC 4.8, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 2560x1600

2x MSAA: 

	Processor: AMD A10-6800K APU @ 4.70GHz (4 Cores), Motherboard: MSI FM2-A85XA-G65 (MS-7793) v1.0, Chipset: AMD Family 15h, Memory: 8192MB, Disk: 64GB OCZ AGILITY, Graphics: Sapphire AMD Radeon HD 6950 2048MB, Audio: Realtek ALC892, Monitor: SyncMaster, Network: Realtek RTL8111/8168/8411

	OS: Ubuntu 13.10, Kernel: 3.13.0-999-generic (x86_64), Desktop: Unity 7.1.2, Display Server: X Server 1.14.3, Display Driver: radeon 7.2.99, OpenGL: 3.1 Mesa 10.1.0-devel (git-5b331f6 saucy-oibaf-ppa) Gallium 0.4, Compiler: GCC 4.8, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 2560x1600

4x MSAA: 

	Processor: AMD A10-6800K APU @ 4.70GHz (4 Cores), Motherboard: MSI FM2-A85XA-G65 (MS-7793) v1.0, Chipset: AMD Family 15h, Memory: 8192MB, Disk: 64GB OCZ AGILITY, Graphics: Sapphire AMD Radeon HD 6950 2048MB, Audio: Realtek ALC892, Monitor: SyncMaster, Network: Realtek RTL8111/8168/8411

	OS: Ubuntu 13.10, Kernel: 3.13.0-999-generic (x86_64), Desktop: Unity 7.1.2, Display Server: X Server 1.14.3, Display Driver: radeon 7.2.99, OpenGL: 3.1 Mesa 10.1.0-devel (git-5b331f6 saucy-oibaf-ppa) Gallium 0.4, Compiler: GCC 4.8, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 2560x1600

6x MSAA: 

	Processor: AMD A10-6800K APU @ 4.70GHz (4 Cores), Motherboard: MSI FM2-A85XA-G65 (MS-7793) v1.0, Chipset: AMD Family 15h, Memory: 8192MB, Disk: 64GB OCZ AGILITY, Graphics: Sapphire AMD Radeon HD 6950 2048MB, Audio: Realtek ALC892, Monitor: SyncMaster, Network: Realtek RTL8111/8168/8411

	OS: Ubuntu 13.10, Kernel: 3.13.0-999-generic (x86_64), Desktop: Unity 7.1.2, Display Server: X Server 1.14.3, Display Driver: radeon 7.2.99, OpenGL: 3.1 Mesa 10.1.0-devel (git-5b331f6 saucy-oibaf-ppa) Gallium 0.4, Compiler: GCC 4.8, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 2560x1600


Doom 3 1.3.1
Resolution: 1920 x 1080 - Quality: High
Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better
No AA ... 91.03 |==============================================================
2x MSAA . 87.43 |============================================================
4x MSAA . 80.50 |=======================================================
6x MSAA . 61.60 |==========================================


OpenArena 0.8.8
Resolution: 1920 x 1080
Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better
No AA ... 109.80 |=============================================================
2x MSAA . 79.00  |============================================
4x MSAA . 73.87  |=========================================
6x MSAA . 66.53  |=====================================


OpenArena 0.8.8
Resolution: 1920 x 1080 - Total Frame Time
Milliseconds < Lower Is Better
No AA ... MIN: 5.0  AVG: 9.1   MAX: 33.0 
2x MSAA . MIN: 7.0  AVG: 12.6  MAX: 34.0 
4x MSAA . MIN: 8.0  AVG: 13.5  MAX: 34.0 
6x MSAA . MIN: 8.0  AVG: 15.0  MAX: 34.0 


Prey 1.4.119
Resolution: 1920 x 1080
Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better
No AA ... 138.93 |=============================================================
2x MSAA . 117.67 |====================================================
4x MSAA . 106.33 |===============================================
6x MSAA . 84.60  |=====================================


Xonotic 0.7
Resolution: 1920 x 1080 - Effects Quality: High
Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better
No AA ... 144.03 |=============================================================
2x MSAA . 96.97  |=========================================
4x MSAA . 94.75  |========================================
6x MSAA . 90.32  |======================================