Radeon X300 Linux Driver; Catalyst Gallium3D Future article on Phoronix.com by Michael Larabel looking at Mobility Radeon X300 on ThinkPad R51 notebook in various driver configurations under Ubuntu Linux. Ubuntu 8.04.4 LTS with Catalyst 8.3 (found in Ubuntu 8.04 Hardy repo) compared to Ubuntu 11.10 Linux with its stock stack and then latest Git graphics packages -- Linux 3.2, Mesa 8.0 Gallium3D, etc. Swap buffers wait for the Radeon X.Org driver was disabled.
HTML result view exported from: https://openbenchmarking.org/result/1201156-BY-X300RADEO73 .
Radeon X300 Linux Driver; Catalyst Gallium3D Processor Motherboard Chipset Memory Disk Graphics Audio Network OS Kernel Desktop Display Server Display Driver OpenGL Compiler File-System Screen Resolution Ubuntu 8.04.4 - Catalyst 8.3 Ubuntu 11.10 - Stock Ubuntu 11.10 - Latest Intel Pentium M @ 1.86GHz (1 Core) IBM 18494WU Intel Mobile 915GM/PM/GMS/910GML + ICH6M 2048MB 80GB Hitachi HTS541080G9AT00 AMD Mobility Radeon X300 Intel 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW Broadcom NetXtreme BCM5751M Gigabit PCI + Intel PRO/Wireless Ubuntu 8.04 2.6.24-26-generic (i686) GNOME 2.22.3 X Server 1.4.0.90 fglrx 8.47.3 2.1.7412 GCC 4.2.4 ext3 1400x1050 Intel Pentium M 1.86GHz @ 1.87GHz (1 Core) AMD Mobility Radeon X300 128MB Ubuntu 11.10 3.0.0-12-generic (i686) Unity 4.22.0 X Server 1.10.4 radeon 6.14.99 2.1 Mesa 7.11 Gallium 0.4 GCC 4.6.1 ext4 3.2.1-030201-generic-pae (i686) 2.1 Mesa 8.0-devel (git-faa90ab) Gallium 0.4 GCC 4.6.1 + llvm 2.9 (Ubuntu 2.9+dfsg-3ubuntu2) OpenBenchmarking.org System Details - Compiz was running on this system.
Radeon X300 Linux Driver; Catalyst Gallium3D doom3: 1400 x 1050 - Low nexuiz: 1400 x 1050 - No - Off warsow: 1400 x 1050 lightsmark: 1400 x 1050 openarena: 1400 x 1050 padman: 1400 x 1050 urbanterror: 1400 x 1050 doom3: 800 x 600 - Low openarena: 800 x 600 warsow: 800 x 600 nexuiz: 800 x 600 - No - Off Ubuntu 8.04.4 - Catalyst 8.3 Ubuntu 11.10 - Stock Ubuntu 11.10 - Latest 7.68 5.38 11.18 8.34 29.33 8.93 40.07 22.25 56.80 24.00 16.75 2.40 2.83 6.37 3.79 3 9.20 20 8.17 27.50 10.90 11.67 2.40 2.81 4.17 3.07 7.70 8 8.20 8.47 28.10 4.20 11.85 OpenBenchmarking.org
Doom 3 Resolution: 1400 x 1050 - Quality: Low OpenBenchmarking.org Frames Per Second, More Is Better Doom 3 1.3.1 Resolution: 1400 x 1050 - Quality: Low Ubuntu 8.04.4 - Catalyst 8.3 Ubuntu 11.10 - Stock Ubuntu 11.10 - Latest 2 4 6 8 10 SE +/- 0.13, N = 4 SE +/- 0.00, N = 3 SE +/- 0.00, N = 3 7.68 2.40 2.40
Nexuiz Resolution: 1400 x 1050 - HDR: No - Sound: Off OpenBenchmarking.org Frames Per Second, More Is Better Nexuiz 2.5.2 Resolution: 1400 x 1050 - HDR: No - Sound: Off Ubuntu 8.04.4 - Catalyst 8.3 Ubuntu 11.10 - Stock Ubuntu 11.10 - Latest 1.2105 2.421 3.6315 4.842 6.0525 SE +/- 0.00, N = 3 SE +/- 0.00, N = 3 SE +/- 0.03, N = 3 5.38 2.83 2.81
Warsow Resolution: 1400 x 1050 OpenBenchmarking.org Frames Per Second, More Is Better Warsow 0.5 Resolution: 1400 x 1050 Ubuntu 8.04.4 - Catalyst 8.3 Ubuntu 11.10 - Stock Ubuntu 11.10 - Latest 3 6 9 12 15 SE +/- 0.27, N = 6 SE +/- 0.95, N = 6 SE +/- 0.03, N = 3 11.18 6.37 4.17
Lightsmark Resolution: 1400 x 1050 OpenBenchmarking.org Frames Per Second, More Is Better Lightsmark 2008 Resolution: 1400 x 1050 Ubuntu 8.04.4 - Catalyst 8.3 Ubuntu 11.10 - Stock Ubuntu 11.10 - Latest 2 4 6 8 10 SE +/- 0.00, N = 3 SE +/- 0.01, N = 3 SE +/- 0.03, N = 3 8.34 3.79 3.07
OpenArena Resolution: 1400 x 1050 OpenBenchmarking.org Frames Per Second, More Is Better OpenArena 0.8.5 Resolution: 1400 x 1050 Ubuntu 8.04.4 - Catalyst 8.3 Ubuntu 11.10 - Stock Ubuntu 11.10 - Latest 7 14 21 28 35 SE +/- 0.63, N = 6 SE +/- 0.00, N = 3 SE +/- 0.00, N = 3 29.33 3.00 7.70
World of Padman Resolution: 1400 x 1050 OpenBenchmarking.org Frames Per Second, More Is Better World of Padman 1.2 Resolution: 1400 x 1050 Ubuntu 8.04.4 - Catalyst 8.3 Ubuntu 11.10 - Stock Ubuntu 11.10 - Latest 3 6 9 12 15 SE +/- 0.03, N = 3 SE +/- 0.00, N = 3 SE +/- 0.00, N = 3 8.93 9.20 8.00
Urban Terror Resolution: 1400 x 1050 OpenBenchmarking.org Frames Per Second, More Is Better Urban Terror 4.1 Resolution: 1400 x 1050 Ubuntu 8.04.4 - Catalyst 8.3 Ubuntu 11.10 - Stock Ubuntu 11.10 - Latest 9 18 27 36 45 SE +/- 0.03, N = 3 SE +/- 0.00, N = 3 SE +/- 0.00, N = 3 40.07 20.00 8.20
Doom 3 Resolution: 800 x 600 - Quality: Low OpenBenchmarking.org Frames Per Second, More Is Better Doom 3 1.3.1 Resolution: 800 x 600 - Quality: Low Ubuntu 8.04.4 - Catalyst 8.3 Ubuntu 11.10 - Stock Ubuntu 11.10 - Latest 5 10 15 20 25 SE +/- 0.47, N = 6 SE +/- 0.09, N = 3 SE +/- 0.03, N = 3 22.25 8.17 8.47
OpenArena Resolution: 800 x 600 OpenBenchmarking.org Frames Per Second, More Is Better OpenArena 0.8.5 Resolution: 800 x 600 Ubuntu 8.04.4 - Catalyst 8.3 Ubuntu 11.10 - Stock Ubuntu 11.10 - Latest 13 26 39 52 65 SE +/- 0.12, N = 3 SE +/- 0.45, N = 3 SE +/- 0.00, N = 3 56.80 27.50 28.10
Warsow Resolution: 800 x 600 OpenBenchmarking.org Frames Per Second, More Is Better Warsow 0.5 Resolution: 800 x 600 Ubuntu 8.04.4 - Catalyst 8.3 Ubuntu 11.10 - Stock Ubuntu 11.10 - Latest 6 12 18 24 30 SE +/- 0.15, N = 3 SE +/- 0.10, N = 3 SE +/- 0.00, N = 3 24.00 10.90 4.20
Nexuiz Resolution: 800 x 600 - HDR: No - Sound: Off OpenBenchmarking.org Frames Per Second, More Is Better Nexuiz 2.5.2 Resolution: 800 x 600 - HDR: No - Sound: Off Ubuntu 8.04.4 - Catalyst 8.3 Ubuntu 11.10 - Stock Ubuntu 11.10 - Latest 4 8 12 16 20 SE +/- 0.00, N = 3 SE +/- 0.02, N = 3 SE +/- 0.01, N = 3 16.75 11.67 11.85
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