Mesa 8.0 LLVMpipe Gallium3D
Mesa 8.0 testing for a future article on Phoronix.com. This time looking at the LLVMpipe software driver performance using LLVM 3.0 on an Intel Core i7 quad-core notebook with Hyper Threading. It's a Lenovo ThinkPad W510 notebook.


Mesa 7.11.2 Git: 

	Processor: Intel Core i7 720Q @ 1.60GHz (8 Cores), Motherboard: LENOVO 4318CTO, Chipset: Intel Core DMI, Memory: 4096MB, Disk: 160GB INTEL SSDSA2M160, Graphics: LLVMpipe, Audio: Conexant CX20585, Network: Intel 82577LM Gigabit Connection + Intel Centrino Ultimate-N 6300

	OS: Ubuntu 11.10, Kernel: 3.0.0-12-generic (x86_64), Desktop: Unity 4.22.0, Display Server: X Server 1.10.4, Display Driver: vesa 2.3.0, OpenGL: 2.1 Mesa 7.11.2 (git-7722a54) Gallium 0.4, Compiler: GCC 4.6.1 + LLVM 3.0, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 1600x900

Mesa 8.0-devel: 

	Processor: Intel Core i7 720Q @ 1.60GHz (8 Cores), Motherboard: LENOVO 4318CTO, Chipset: Intel Core DMI, Memory: 4096MB, Disk: 160GB INTEL SSDSA2M160, Graphics: LLVMpipe, Audio: Conexant CX20585, Network: Intel 82577LM Gigabit Connection + Intel Centrino Ultimate-N 6300

	OS: Ubuntu 11.10, Kernel: 3.0.0-12-generic (x86_64), Desktop: Unity 4.22.0, Display Server: X Server 1.10.4, Display Driver: vesa 2.3.0, OpenGL: 2.1 Mesa 8.0-devel (git-1e51d4b) Gallium 0.4, Compiler: GCC 4.6.1 + LLVM 3.0, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 1600x900


World of Padman 1.2
Resolution: 1600 x 900
Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better
Mesa 7.11.2 Git . 12.33 |======================================================
Mesa 8.0-devel .. 12.37 |======================================================


World of Padman 1.2
Resolution: 1440 x 900
Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better
Mesa 7.11.2 Git . 13.67 |======================================================
Mesa 8.0-devel .. 13.67 |======================================================


World of Padman 1.2
Resolution: 1024 x 768
Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better
Mesa 7.11.2 Git . 18.30 |======================================================
Mesa 8.0-devel .. 18.43 |======================================================


World of Padman 1.2
Resolution: 800 x 600
Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better
Mesa 7.11.2 Git . 24.33 |======================================================
Mesa 8.0-devel .. 24.17 |======================================================


World of Padman 1.2
Resolution: 640 x 480
Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better
Mesa 7.11.2 Git . 29.33 |======================================================
Mesa 8.0-devel .. 29.27 |======================================================


OpenArena 0.8.5
Resolution: 1600 x 900
Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better
Mesa 7.11.2 Git . 11.83 |======================================================
Mesa 8.0-devel .. 11.93 |======================================================


OpenArena 0.8.5
Resolution: 1440 x 900
Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better
Mesa 7.11.2 Git . 13.13 |=====================================================
Mesa 8.0-devel .. 13.30 |======================================================


OpenArena 0.8.5
Resolution: 1024 x 768
Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better
Mesa 7.11.2 Git . 18.63 |======================================================
Mesa 8.0-devel .. 18.37 |=====================================================


OpenArena 0.8.5
Resolution: 800 x 600
Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better
Mesa 7.11.2 Git . 26.23 |======================================================
Mesa 8.0-devel .. 26.13 |======================================================


OpenArena 0.8.5
Resolution: 640 x 480
Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better
Mesa 7.11.2 Git . 31.60 |======================================================
Mesa 8.0-devel .. 31.63 |======================================================