LLVMpipe

LLVMpipe is a graphics processor. The LLVMpipe has been tested via the Phoronix Test Suite in the configurations listed below.

OpenBenchmarking.org Results

Global Results

CPU-TEST - Tests on NHRLIVE 3.0, Intel Xeon X5660, Gallium 0.4 on llvmpipe, HP ProLiant DL380 G7

CPU_TEST - Tests on NHRLIVE 3.0, Intel Xeon X5660, Gallium 0.4 on llvmpipe, HP ProLiant DL380 G7

Arash - Tests on LinuxMint 13, Intel Xeon 5140, Gallium 0.4 on llvmpipe, HP ProLiant DL380 G5

arash - Tests on LinuxMint 13, Intel Xeon E5405, Gallium 0.4 on llvmpipe, Dell 0J555H

cputest - Tests on LinuxMint 13, Intel Xeon 5130, Gallium 0.4 on llvmpipe, HP ProLiant DL360 G5

cputest - Tests on LinuxMint 13, Intel Xeon 5130, Gallium 0.4 on llvmpipe, HP ProLiant DL360 G5

08E4F8122E95 - Tests on LinuxMint 13, Intel Xeon 5130, Gallium 0.4 on llvmpipe, HP ProLiant DL360 G5

cputest - Tests on LinuxMint 13, Intel Xeon X5690, Gallium 0.4 on llvmpipe, HP ProLiant DL360 G7

CPUTEST - Tests on LinuxMint 13, Intel Xeon E5440, Gallium 0.4 on llvmpipe, HP ProLiant DL360 G5

test - Tests on Fedora 15, Intel Pentium G620, Gallium 0.4 on llvmpipe, MSI MS-7680

anon-29521-13519-27443 - Tests on Fedora release 15, Intel Pentium 4 2.60GHz, Gallium 0.4 on llvmpipe

anon-26976-31631-30478 - Tests on Fedora release 15, Intel Pentium 4 2.60GHz, Gallium 0.4 on llvmpipe

anon-21016-1343-14976 - Tests on Fedora release 15, Intel Pentium 4 2.60GHz, Gallium 0.4 on llvmpipe

anon-10284-22591-4230 - Tests on Fedora release 15, Intel Pentium 4 2.60GHz, Gallium 0.4 on llvmpipe

Phoronix Information

Gallium3D LLVMpipe Compared To Nine Graphics Cards: Yesterday after publishing the 15-way open-source vs. closed-source NVIDIA/AMD Linux graphics comparison there were some requests by Phoronix readers to also show how the LLVMpipe software rasterizer performance is in reference. For this article to end out the month are the OpenGL performance results from nine lower-end AMD Radeon and NVIDIA GeForce graphics cards running with their respective Mesa/Gallium3D drivers compared to the LLVMpipe software driver in two configurations.

Gallium3D's LLVMpipe Driver Is Now Much Faster: The Gallium3D LLVMpipe driver that's commonly used as the fallback software rasterizer on Linux desktop systems when no GPU hardware driver is present, is a heck of a lot faster with the current Mesa development code. The gains are surprising and quite remarkable.

OSMesa State Tracker + LLVMpipe Support Published: Brian Paul has published an initial OSMesa state tracker along with OSMesa support for the LLVMpipe and Softpipe drivers...

Gallium3D LLVMpipe Now Supports GLSL 1.40: The Gallium3D LLVMpipe driver has gone from supporting GLSL 1.20 to now handling not only GLSL 1.30 but also GLSL 1.40. Version 1.40 of the GL Shading Language is needed for OpenGL 3.1 compliance...

Gallium3D LLVMpipe Driver Shows Progress: With talking recently about LLVMpipe driver improvements and having not benchmarked this Gallium3D software driver in a while, here are new benchmarks of this LLVM-based software fallback driver when using Mesa 9.1-devel Git in conjunction with LLVM 3.3 SVN code, for the very latest look at the OpenGL software acceleration possibilities...

LLVMpipe Picks Up Support For New GL Extensions: While LLVMpipe is now commonly used as the default software fallback on the Linux desktop in cases where there is no OpenGL hardware driver available, it remains limited to OpenGL 2.1 compliance and doesn't see too much love by developers. Fortunately, VMware developers continue to take some care of this driver and today there's now support for two new OpenGL extensions pertaining to texture buffers...

IBM's Porting Gallium3D LLVMpipe To PowerPC: IBM is working on porting the Gallium3D open-source LLVMpipe software driver to the PowerPC architecture...

LLVMpipe Gallium3D Sees A Bit Of New Activity: A bit of new code was committed this week for Gallium3D's LLVMpipe software driver that attempts to provide modest OpenGL performance as a software fallback by taking advantage of LLVM to exploit multiple CPU cores and the latest instruction set extensions on modern processors.

OpenGL Transform Feedback For LLVMpipe: An initial patch for review has been published by David Airlie that implements OpenGL Transform Feedback support for the LLVMpipe driver...

Gallium3D LLVMpipe Isn't Yet Fit For ARM: While OpenGL is becoming a requirement for more of the Linux desktops out there, and ARM open-source graphics drivers aren't yet commonplace, using the Gallium3D LLVMpipe software rasterizer on ARM isn't yet a really viable solution...

Mesa 9.1-devel LLVMpipe With LLVM 3.1/3.2: With a number of commits made to the mainline Mesa repository recently that concern the LLVMpipe Gallium3D driver for pushing OpenGL onto the CPU, here are benchmarks of the very latest Mesa Gallium3D development code from and AMD FX-8350 Vishera Eight-Core CPU when using both LLVM 3.1 and LLVM 3.2 SVN.

Not All Linux Users Want To Toke On LLVMpipe: OpenGL support is becoming an increasing hard requirement on the Linux desktop. Even if your hardware comes up short, more desktops are requiring GL support, which means falling back to the CPU-based LLVMpipe Gallium3D driver...