LLVMpipe vs. SWR Mesa On Intel Xeon Gold
2 x Intel Xeon Gold 6138 testing with a TYAN S7106 and llvmpipe and SWR for a future article on Phoronix.


LLVMpipe Mesa 17.0: 

	Processor: 2 x Intel Xeon Gold 6138 @ 3.70GHz (80 Cores), Motherboard: TYAN S7106, Chipset: Intel Device 2020, Memory: 96256MB, Disk: 256GB Samsung SSD 850 + 2000GB Seagate ST2000DM006-2DM1 + 2 x 120GB TOSHIBA-TR150, Graphics: LLVMpipe, Monitor: Acer P243W, Network: Intel I210 Gigabit Connection

	OS: Ubuntu 16.04, Kernel: 4.10.0-32-generic (x86_64), Desktop: Unity 7.4.0, Display Driver: modesetting 1.19.3, OpenGL: 3.3 Mesa 17.0.7 Gallium 0.4 (LLVM 4.0 256 bits), Compiler: GCC 5.4.0 20160609, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 1920x1200

SWR Mesa 17.3-dev: 

	Processor: 2 x Intel Xeon Gold 6138 @ 3.70GHz (80 Cores), Motherboard: TYAN S7106, Chipset: Intel Device 2020, Memory: 96256MB, Disk: 256GB Samsung SSD 850 + 2000GB Seagate ST2000DM006-2DM1 + 2 x 120GB TOSHIBA-TR150, Graphics: SWR 95360MB, Monitor: Acer P243W, Network: Intel I210 Gigabit Connection

	OS: Ubuntu 16.04, Kernel: 4.10.0-32-generic (x86_64), Desktop: Unity 7.4.0, Display Driver: modesetting 1.19.3, OpenGL: 3.3 Mesa 17.3.0-devel (git-fff1327547) (LLVM 6.0 256 bits), Compiler: GCC 5.4.0 20160609, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 1920x1200

LLVMpipe Mesa 17.3-dev: 

	Processor: 2 x Intel Xeon Gold 6138 @ 3.70GHz (80 Cores), Motherboard: TYAN S7106, Chipset: Intel Device 2020, Memory: 96256MB, Disk: 256GB Samsung SSD 850 + 2000GB Seagate ST2000DM006-2DM1 + 2 x 120GB TOSHIBA-TR150, Graphics: llvmpipe 95360MB, Monitor: Acer P243W, Network: Intel I210 Gigabit Connection

	OS: Ubuntu 16.04, Kernel: 4.10.0-32-generic (x86_64), Desktop: Unity 7.4.0, Display Driver: modesetting 1.19.3, OpenGL: 3.3 Mesa 17.3.0-devel (git-fff1327547) (LLVM 6.0 256 bits), Compiler: GCC 5.4.0 20160609, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 1920x1200


GLmark2 276
Resolution: 1024 x 768
Score > Higher Is Better
LLVMpipe Mesa 17.0 ..... 201 |============================================
SWR Mesa 17.3-dev ...... 222 |=================================================
LLVMpipe Mesa 17.3-dev . 223 |=================================================


GpuTest 0.7.0
Test: Plot3D - Resolution: 1024 x 768 - Mode: Windowed
Points > Higher Is Better
LLVMpipe Mesa 17.0 ..... 392 |=======================================
SWR Mesa 17.3-dev ...... 490 |=================================================
LLVMpipe Mesa 17.3-dev . 477 |================================================


GpuTest 0.7.0
Test: Furmark - Resolution: 1024 x 768 - Mode: Windowed
Points > Higher Is Better
LLVMpipe Mesa 17.0 ..... 48 |===============================================
SWR Mesa 17.3-dev ...... 48 |===============================================
LLVMpipe Mesa 17.3-dev . 51 |==================================================


GpuTest 0.7.0
Test: Triangle - Resolution: 1024 x 768 - Mode: Windowed
Points > Higher Is Better
LLVMpipe Mesa 17.0 ..... 28171 |=================================
SWR Mesa 17.3-dev ...... 39658 |===============================================
LLVMpipe Mesa 17.3-dev . 38561 |==============================================


GpuTest 0.7.0
Test: Pixmark Piano - Resolution: 1024 x 768 - Mode: Windowed
Points > Higher Is Better
LLVMpipe Mesa 17.0 ..... 95  |============================================
SWR Mesa 17.3-dev ...... 106 |=================================================
LLVMpipe Mesa 17.3-dev . 105 |=================================================


GpuTest 0.7.0
Test: Pixmark Volplosion - Resolution: 1024 x 768 - Mode: Windowed
Points > Higher Is Better
LLVMpipe Mesa 17.0 ..... 245 |============================================
SWR Mesa 17.3-dev ...... 271 |=================================================
LLVMpipe Mesa 17.3-dev . 265 |================================================


OpenArena 0.8.8
Resolution: 1280 x 1024
Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better
LLVMpipe Mesa 17.0 ..... 11.67 |===================
SWR Mesa 17.3-dev ...... 27.90 |==============================================
LLVMpipe Mesa 17.3-dev . 28.27 |===============================================


OpenArena 0.8.8
Resolution: 1280 x 1024 - Total Frame Time
Milliseconds < Lower Is Better
LLVMpipe Mesa 17.0 ..... MIN: 8  AVG: 81   MAX: 99 
SWR Mesa 17.3-dev ...... MIN: 3  AVG: 34   MAX: 95 
LLVMpipe Mesa 17.3-dev . MIN: 4  AVG: 35   MAX: 92 


Xonotic 0.8.2
Resolution: 3840 x 2160 - Effects Quality: Low
Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better
LLVMpipe Mesa 17.0 ..... 8.24  |======================
SWR Mesa 17.3-dev ...... 17.71 |===============================================
LLVMpipe Mesa 17.3-dev . 17.62 |===============================================