Mesa 8.0 Nouveau Gallium3D Benchmarks of the Nouveau Gallium3D stack in Mesa. Comparing the NVIDIA GeForce performance between Mesa 7.11 and Mesa 8.0-devel of the different Nouveau NVC0 Fermi, NV50, etc open-source drivers with several different graphics cards. Testing for a future article by Michael Larabel of Phoronix.com for looking at Mesa 8.0 OpenGL performance. GeForce GTX 460: Mesa 7.11: Processor: Intel Core i7-3960X @ 3.20GHz (12 Cores), Motherboard: Intel DX79SI, Chipset: Intel Sandy DMI2, Memory: 16384MB, Disk: 240GB OCZ VERTEX3, Graphics: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 460 768MB (675/1800MHz), Audio: Realtek ALC892, Monitor: DELL P2210H, Network: Intel 82579LM Gigabit Connection OS: Ubuntu 11.10, Kernel: 3.2.0-030200-generic (x86_64), Desktop: Unity 4.22.0, Display Server: X Server 1.10.4, Display Driver: nouveau 0.0.16, OpenGL: 2.1 Mesa 7.11 (git-de8f22a) Gallium 0.4, Compiler: GCC 4.6.1 + llvm 2.9 (Ubuntu 2.9+dfsg-3ubuntu2), File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 1920x1080 GeForce GTX 460: Mesa 8.0-devel: Processor: Intel Core i7-3960X @ 3.20GHz (12 Cores), Motherboard: Intel DX79SI, Chipset: Intel Sandy DMI2, Memory: 16384MB, Disk: 240GB OCZ VERTEX3, Graphics: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 460 768MB (675/1800MHz), Audio: Realtek ALC892, Monitor: DELL P2210H, Network: Intel 82579LM Gigabit Connection OS: Ubuntu 11.10, Kernel: 3.2.0-030200-generic (x86_64), Desktop: Unity 4.22.0, Display Server: X Server 1.10.4, Display Driver: nouveau 0.0.16, OpenGL: 2.1 Mesa 8.0-devel (git-57665cb) Gallium 0.4, Compiler: GCC 4.6.1 + llvm 2.9 (Ubuntu 2.9+dfsg-3ubuntu2), File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 1920x1080 GeForce GTX 460: NVIDIA: Processor: Intel Core i7-3960X @ 3.20GHz (12 Cores), Motherboard: Intel DX79SI, Chipset: Intel Sandy DMI2, Memory: 16384MB, Disk: 240GB OCZ VERTEX3, Graphics: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 460/PCIe/SSE2 768MB (675/1800MHz), Audio: Realtek ALC892, Network: Intel 82579LM Gigabit Connection OS: Ubuntu 11.10, Kernel: 3.2.0-030200-generic (x86_64), Desktop: Unity 4.22.0, Display Server: X Server 1.10.4, Display Driver: NVIDIA 295.09, OpenGL: 4.2.0 NVIDIA 295.09, Compiler: GCC 4.6.1 + llvm 2.9 (Ubuntu 2.9+dfsg-3ubuntu2), File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 1920x1080 GeForce 9800GT: Mesa 7.11: Processor: Intel Core i7-3960X @ 3.20GHz (12 Cores), Motherboard: Intel DX79SI, Chipset: Intel Sandy DMI2, Memory: 16384MB, Disk: 240GB OCZ VERTEX3, Graphics: NVIDIA GeForce 9800 GT 512MB (660/950MHz), Audio: Realtek ALC892, Monitor: DELL P2210H, Network: Intel 82579LM Gigabit Connection OS: Ubuntu 11.10, Kernel: 3.2.0-030200-generic (x86_64), Desktop: Unity 4.22.0, Display Server: X Server 1.10.4, Display Driver: nouveau 0.0.16, OpenGL: 2.1 Mesa 7.11 (git-de8f22a) Gallium 0.4, Compiler: GCC 4.6.1 + llvm 2.9 (Ubuntu 2.9+dfsg-3ubuntu2), File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 1920x1080 GeForce 9800GT: Mesa 8.0-devel: Processor: Intel Core i7-3960X @ 3.20GHz (12 Cores), Motherboard: Intel DX79SI, Chipset: Intel Sandy DMI2, Memory: 16384MB, Disk: 240GB OCZ VERTEX3, Graphics: NVIDIA GeForce 9800 GT 512MB (660/950MHz), Audio: Realtek ALC892, Monitor: DELL P2210H, Network: Intel 82579LM Gigabit Connection OS: Ubuntu 11.10, Kernel: 3.2.0-030200-generic (x86_64), Desktop: Unity 4.22.0, Display Server: X Server 1.10.4, Display Driver: nouveau 0.0.16, OpenGL: 2.1 Mesa 8.0-devel (git-57665cb) Gallium 0.4, Compiler: GCC 4.6.1 + llvm 2.9 (Ubuntu 2.9+dfsg-3ubuntu2), File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 1920x1080 GeForce 9800GT: NVIDIA: Processor: Intel Core i7-3960X @ 3.20GHz (12 Cores), Motherboard: Intel DX79SI, Chipset: Intel Sandy DMI2, Memory: 16384MB, Disk: 240GB OCZ VERTEX3, Graphics: NVIDIA GeForce 9800 GT/PCIe/SSE2 512MB (660/950MHz), Audio: Realtek ALC892, Network: Intel 82579LM Gigabit Connection OS: Ubuntu 11.10, Kernel: 3.2.0-030200-generic (x86_64), Desktop: Unity 4.22.0, Display Server: X Server 1.10.4, Display Driver: NVIDIA 295.09, OpenGL: 3.3.0 NVIDIA 295.09, Compiler: GCC 4.6.1 + llvm 2.9 (Ubuntu 2.9+dfsg-3ubuntu2), File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 1920x1080 GeForce 9500GT: Mesa 7.11: Processor: Intel Core i7-3960X @ 3.20GHz (12 Cores), Motherboard: Intel DX79SI, Chipset: Intel Sandy DMI2, Memory: 16384MB, Disk: 240GB OCZ VERTEX3, Graphics: NVIDIA GeForce 9500 GT 1024MB (550/400MHz), Audio: Realtek ALC892, Monitor: DELL P2210H, Network: Intel 82579LM Gigabit Connection OS: Ubuntu 11.10, Kernel: 3.2.0-030200-generic (x86_64), Desktop: Unity 4.22.0, Display Server: X Server 1.10.4, Display Driver: nouveau 0.0.16, OpenGL: 2.1 Mesa 7.11 (git-de8f22a) Gallium 0.4, Compiler: GCC 4.6.1 + llvm 2.9 (Ubuntu 2.9+dfsg-3ubuntu2), File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 1920x1080 GeForce 9500GT: Mesa 8.0-devel: Processor: Intel Core i7-3960X @ 3.20GHz (12 Cores), Motherboard: Intel DX79SI, Chipset: Intel Sandy DMI2, Memory: 16384MB, Disk: 240GB OCZ VERTEX3, Graphics: NVIDIA GeForce 9500 GT 1024MB (550/400MHz), Audio: Realtek ALC892, Monitor: DELL P2210H, Network: Intel 82579LM Gigabit Connection OS: Ubuntu 11.10, Kernel: 3.2.0-030200-generic (x86_64), Desktop: Unity 4.22.0, Display Server: X Server 1.10.4, Display Driver: nouveau 0.0.16, OpenGL: 2.1 Mesa 8.0-devel (git-57665cb) Gallium 0.4, Compiler: GCC 4.6.1 + llvm 2.9 (Ubuntu 2.9+dfsg-3ubuntu2), File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 1920x1080 GeForce 9500GT: NVIDIA: Processor: Intel Core i7-3960X @ 3.20GHz (12 Cores), Motherboard: Intel DX79SI, Chipset: Intel Sandy DMI2, Memory: 16384MB, Disk: 240GB OCZ VERTEX3, Graphics: NVIDIA GeForce 9500 GT 1024MB (550/400MHz), Audio: Realtek ALC892, Network: Intel 82579LM Gigabit Connection OS: Ubuntu 11.10, Kernel: 3.2.0-030200-generic (x86_64), Desktop: Unity 4.22.0, Display Server: X Server 1.10.4, Display Driver: NVIDIA 295.09, OpenGL: 3.3.0 NVIDIA 295.09, Compiler: GCC 4.6.1 + llvm 2.9 (Ubuntu 2.9+dfsg-3ubuntu2), File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 1920x1080 GeForce 8600GTS: Mesa 7.11: Processor: Intel Core i7-3960X @ 3.20GHz (12 Cores), Motherboard: Intel DX79SI, Chipset: Intel Sandy DMI2, Memory: 16384MB, Disk: 240GB OCZ VERTEX3, Graphics: NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GTS 256MB (675/1008MHz), Audio: Realtek ALC892, Monitor: DELL P2210H, Network: Intel 82579LM Gigabit Connection OS: Ubuntu 11.10, Kernel: 3.2.0-030200-generic (x86_64), Desktop: Unity 4.22.0, Display Server: X Server 1.10.4, Display Driver: nouveau 0.0.16, OpenGL: 2.1 Mesa 7.11 (git-de8f22a) Gallium 0.4, Compiler: GCC 4.6.1 + llvm 2.9 (Ubuntu 2.9+dfsg-3ubuntu2), File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 1920x1080 GeForce 8600GTS: Mesa 8.0-devel: Processor: Intel Core i7-3960X @ 3.20GHz (12 Cores), Motherboard: Intel DX79SI, Chipset: Intel Sandy DMI2, Memory: 16384MB, Disk: 240GB OCZ VERTEX3, Graphics: NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GTS 256MB (675/1008MHz), Audio: Realtek ALC892, Monitor: DELL P2210H, Network: Intel 82579LM Gigabit Connection OS: Ubuntu 11.10, Kernel: 3.2.0-030200-generic (x86_64), Desktop: Unity 4.22.0, Display Server: X Server 1.10.4, Display Driver: nouveau 0.0.16, OpenGL: 2.1 Mesa 8.0-devel (git-57665cb) Gallium 0.4, Compiler: GCC 4.6.1 + llvm 2.9 (Ubuntu 2.9+dfsg-3ubuntu2), File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 1920x1080 GeForce 8600GTS: NVIDIA: Processor: Intel Core i7-3960X @ 3.20GHz (12 Cores), Motherboard: Intel DX79SI, Chipset: Intel Sandy DMI2, Memory: 16384MB, Disk: 240GB OCZ VERTEX3, Graphics: NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GTS 256MB (675/1008MHz), Audio: Realtek ALC892, Network: Intel 82579LM Gigabit Connection OS: Ubuntu 11.10, Kernel: 3.2.0-030200-generic (x86_64), Desktop: Unity 4.22.0, Display Server: X Server 1.10.4, Display Driver: NVIDIA 295.09, OpenGL: 3.3.0 NVIDIA 295.09, Compiler: GCC 4.6.1 + llvm 2.9 (Ubuntu 2.9+dfsg-3ubuntu2), File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 1920x1080 Doom 3 1.3.1 Resolution: 1920 x 1080 - Quality: Low Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better GeForce GTX 460: Mesa 7.11 ...... 8.00 |== GeForce GTX 460: Mesa 8.0-devel . 8.03 |== GeForce GTX 460: NVIDIA ......... 169.27 |===================================== GeForce 9800GT: Mesa 7.11 ....... 35.23 |======== GeForce 9800GT: Mesa 8.0-devel .. 35.13 |======== GeForce 9800GT: NVIDIA .......... 107.43 |======================= GeForce 9500GT: Mesa 7.11 ....... 19.70 |==== GeForce 9500GT: Mesa 8.0-devel .. 19.60 |==== GeForce 9500GT: NVIDIA .......... 28.67 |====== GeForce 8600GTS: Mesa 7.11 ...... 37.83 |======== GeForce 8600GTS: Mesa 8.0-devel . 37.87 |======== GeForce 8600GTS: NVIDIA ......... 39.33 |========= Nexuiz 2.5.2 Resolution: 1920 x 1080 - HDR: No - Sound: Off Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better GeForce GTX 460: Mesa 7.11 ...... 10.62 |== GeForce GTX 460: Mesa 8.0-devel . 1.00 | GeForce GTX 460: NVIDIA ......... 183.11 |===================================== GeForce 9800GT: Mesa 7.11 ....... 38.25 |======== GeForce 9800GT: Mesa 8.0-devel .. 1.00 | GeForce 9800GT: NVIDIA .......... 97.69 |==================== GeForce 9500GT: Mesa 7.11 ....... 23.34 |===== GeForce 9500GT: Mesa 8.0-devel .. 1.00 | GeForce 9500GT: NVIDIA .......... 24.85 |===== GeForce 8600GTS: Mesa 7.11 ...... 46.64 |========= GeForce 8600GTS: Mesa 8.0-devel . 1.00 | GeForce 8600GTS: NVIDIA ......... 25.13 |===== Warsow 0.61 Resolution: 1920 x 1080 Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better GeForce GTX 460: Mesa 7.11 ...... 16.40 |== GeForce GTX 460: Mesa 8.0-devel . 15.93 |== GeForce GTX 460: NVIDIA ......... 278.43 |===================================== GeForce 9800GT: Mesa 7.11 ....... 47.83 |====== GeForce 9800GT: Mesa 8.0-devel .. 51.83 |======= GeForce 9800GT: NVIDIA .......... 180.97 |======================== GeForce 9500GT: Mesa 7.11 ....... 28.43 |==== GeForce 9500GT: Mesa 8.0-devel .. 29.40 |==== GeForce 9500GT: NVIDIA .......... 42.97 |====== GeForce 8600GTS: Mesa 7.11 ...... 33.07 |==== GeForce 8600GTS: Mesa 8.0-devel . 34.13 |===== GeForce 8600GTS: NVIDIA ......... 36.63 |===== Lightsmark 2008 Resolution: 1920 x 1080 Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better GeForce GTX 460: Mesa 7.11 ...... 13.05 |= GeForce GTX 460: Mesa 8.0-devel . 13.24 |= GeForce GTX 460: NVIDIA ......... 490.97 |===================================== GeForce 9800GT: Mesa 7.11 ....... 38.72 |=== GeForce 9800GT: Mesa 8.0-devel .. 39.23 |=== GeForce 9800GT: NVIDIA .......... 282.10 |===================== GeForce 9500GT: NVIDIA .......... 54.75 |==== GeForce 8600GTS: Mesa 8.0-devel . 38.85 |=== GeForce 8600GTS: NVIDIA ......... 35.05 |=== VDrift 2010-06-30 Resolution: 1920 x 1080 Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better GeForce GTX 460: Mesa 8.0-devel . 13.60 |=== GeForce 9800GT: Mesa 7.11 ....... 53.95 |============ GeForce 9800GT: Mesa 8.0-devel .. 57.36 |============ GeForce 9500GT: Mesa 7.11 ....... 37.17 |======== GeForce 9500GT: Mesa 8.0-devel .. 37.23 |======== GeForce 8600GTS: Mesa 7.11 ...... 170.42 |===================================== GeForce 8600GTS: Mesa 8.0-devel . 75.84 |================ OpenArena 0.8.5 Resolution: 1920 x 1080 Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better GeForce GTX 460: Mesa 7.11 ...... 23.20 |== GeForce GTX 460: Mesa 8.0-devel . 23.20 |== GeForce GTX 460: NVIDIA ......... 502.33 |===================================== GeForce 9800GT: Mesa 7.11 ....... 91.67 |======= GeForce 9800GT: Mesa 8.0-devel .. 91.73 |======= GeForce 9800GT: NVIDIA .......... 390.17 |============================= GeForce 9500GT: Mesa 7.11 ....... 64.00 |===== GeForce 9500GT: Mesa 8.0-devel .. 63.87 |===== GeForce 9500GT: NVIDIA .......... 17.48 |= GeForce 8600GTS: Mesa 7.11 ...... 150.87 |=========== GeForce 8600GTS: Mesa 8.0-devel . 149.53 |=========== GeForce 8600GTS: NVIDIA ......... 108.33 |======== World of Padman 1.2 Resolution: 1920 x 1080 Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better GeForce GTX 460: Mesa 7.11 ...... 25.47 |== GeForce GTX 460: Mesa 8.0-devel . 23.93 |== GeForce GTX 460: NVIDIA ......... 453.93 |===================================== GeForce 9800GT: Mesa 7.11 ....... 86.77 |======= GeForce 9800GT: Mesa 8.0-devel .. 87.07 |======= GeForce 9800GT: NVIDIA .......... 386.20 |=============================== GeForce 9500GT: Mesa 7.11 ....... 65.50 |===== GeForce 9500GT: Mesa 8.0-devel .. 65.20 |===== GeForce 9500GT: NVIDIA .......... 91.40 |======= GeForce 8600GTS: Mesa 7.11 ...... 146.73 |============ GeForce 8600GTS: Mesa 8.0-devel . 146.30 |============ GeForce 8600GTS: NVIDIA ......... 110.20 |========= Doom 3 1.3.1 Resolution: 800 x 600 - Quality: Low Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better GeForce GTX 460: Mesa 7.11 ...... 27.93 |====== GeForce GTX 460: Mesa 8.0-devel . 27.90 |====== GeForce 9800GT: Mesa 7.11 ....... 78.33 |================= GeForce 9800GT: Mesa 8.0-devel .. 78.80 |================= GeForce 9800GT: NVIDIA .......... 170.30 |===================================== GeForce 9500GT: Mesa 7.11 ....... 59.07 |============= GeForce 9500GT: Mesa 8.0-devel .. 58.90 |============= GeForce 9500GT: NVIDIA .......... 112.77 |========================= GeForce 8600GTS: Mesa 7.11 ...... 81.20 |================== GeForce 8600GTS: Mesa 8.0-devel . 81.83 |================== GeForce 8600GTS: NVIDIA ......... 160.00 |=================================== Nexuiz 2.5.2 Resolution: 800 x 600 - HDR: No - Sound: Off Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better GeForce GTX 460: Mesa 7.11 ...... 26.33 |=== GeForce GTX 460: Mesa 8.0-devel . 1.00 | GeForce GTX 460: NVIDIA ......... 313.87 |===================================== GeForce 9800GT: Mesa 7.11 ....... 86.12 |========== GeForce 9800GT: Mesa 8.0-devel .. 1.00 | GeForce 9800GT: NVIDIA .......... 235.09 |============================ GeForce 9500GT: Mesa 7.11 ....... 57.80 |======= GeForce 9500GT: Mesa 8.0-devel .. 1.00 | GeForce 9500GT: NVIDIA .......... 58.38 |======= GeForce 8600GTS: Mesa 7.11 ...... 108.52 |============= GeForce 8600GTS: Mesa 8.0-devel . 1.00 | GeForce 8600GTS: NVIDIA ......... 119.85 |============== OpenArena 0.8.5 Resolution: 800 x 600 Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better GeForce GTX 460: Mesa 7.11 ...... 89.03 |====== GeForce GTX 460: Mesa 8.0-devel . 87.13 |====== GeForce GTX 460: NVIDIA ......... 568.63 |===================================== GeForce 9800GT: Mesa 7.11 ....... 257.33 |================= GeForce 9800GT: Mesa 8.0-devel .. 251.27 |================ GeForce 9800GT: NVIDIA .......... 3.00 | GeForce 9500GT: Mesa 7.11 ....... 232.00 |=============== GeForce 9500GT: Mesa 8.0-devel .. 224.50 |=============== GeForce 9500GT: NVIDIA .......... 3.00 | GeForce 8600GTS: Mesa 7.11 ...... 332.43 |====================== GeForce 8600GTS: Mesa 8.0-devel . 321.07 |===================== GeForce 8600GTS: NVIDIA ......... 476.33 |===============================