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. Also tests of Ubuntu 6.06 LTS Dapper Drake thrown into the mix...
Compare your own system(s) to this result file with the
Phoronix Test Suite by running the command:
phoronix-test-suite benchmark 1201158-BY-AMDHARDY843
Radeon X300; Old Catalyst vs. 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. Also tests of Ubuntu 6.06 LTS Dapper Drake thrown into the mix...
,,"Ubuntu 8.04.4 - Catalyst 8.3","Ubuntu 11.10 - Stock","Ubuntu 11.10 - Latest","Ubuntu 6.06.1 LTS - fglrx 8.25.18"
Processor,,Intel Pentium M @ 1.86GHz (1 Core),Intel Pentium M 1.86GHz @ 1.87GHz (1 Core),Intel Pentium M 1.86GHz @ 1.87GHz (1 Core),Intel Pentium M 1.86GHz @ 1.87GHz (1 Core)
Motherboard,,IBM 18494WU,IBM 18494WU,IBM 18494WU,ThinkPad R52
Chipset,,Intel Mobile 915GM/PM/GMS/910GML + ICH6M,Intel Mobile 915GM/PM/GMS/910GML + ICH6M,Intel Mobile 915GM/PM/GMS/910GML + ICH6M,Intel Mobile 915GM/PM/GMS/910GML + ICH6M
Memory,,2048MB,2048MB,2048MB,2048MB
Disk,,80GB Hitachi HTS541080G9AT00,80GB Hitachi HTS541080G9AT00,80GB Hitachi HTS541080G9AT00,80GB Hitachi HTS541080G9AT00
Graphics,,AMD Mobility Radeon X300,AMD Mobility Radeon X300 128MB,AMD Mobility Radeon X300 128MB,AMD Radeon Mobility M300
Audio,,Intel 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW,Intel 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW,Intel 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW,Intel 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW
Network,,Broadcom NetXtreme BCM5751M Gigabit PCI + Intel PRO/Wireless,Broadcom NetXtreme BCM5751M Gigabit PCI + Intel PRO/Wireless,Broadcom NetXtreme BCM5751M Gigabit PCI + Intel PRO/Wireless,Broadcom NetXtreme BCM5751M Gigabit PCI + Intel PRO/Wireless
OS,,Ubuntu 8.04,Ubuntu 11.10,Ubuntu 11.10,Ubuntu 6.06
Kernel,,2.6.24-26-generic (i686),3.0.0-12-generic (i686),3.2.1-030201-generic-pae (i686),2.6.15-26-386 (i686)
Desktop,,GNOME 2.22.3,Unity 4.22.0,Unity 4.22.0,GNOME 2.14.3
Display Server,,X Server 1.4.0.90,X Server 1.10.4,X Server 1.10.4,X Server 7.0.0
Display Driver,,fglrx 8.47.3,radeon 6.14.99,radeon 6.14.99,fglrx 8.25.18
OpenGL,,2.1.7412,2.1 Mesa 7.11 Gallium 0.4,2.1 Mesa 8.0-devel (git-faa90ab) Gallium 0.4,2.0.5814
Compiler,,GCC 4.2.4,GCC 4.6.1,GCC 4.6.1 + llvm 2.9 (Ubuntu 2.9+dfsg-3ubuntu2),GCC 4.0.3
File-System,,ext3,ext4,ext4,ext3
Screen Resolution,,1400x1050,1400x1050,1400x1050,1400x1050
,,"Ubuntu 8.04.4 - Catalyst 8.3","Ubuntu 11.10 - Stock","Ubuntu 11.10 - Latest","Ubuntu 6.06.1 LTS - fglrx 8.25.18"
"OpenArena - Resolution: 1400 x 1050 (FPS)",HIB,29.33,3,7.70,
"Warsow - Resolution: 800 x 600 (FPS)",HIB,24.00,10.90,4.20,7.07
"Urban Terror - Resolution: 1400 x 1050 (FPS)",HIB,40.07,20,8.20,21.47
"Doom 3 - Resolution: 1400 x 1050 - Quality: Low (FPS)",HIB,7.68,2.40,2.40,5.40
"Doom 3 - Resolution: 800 x 600 - Quality: Low (FPS)",HIB,22.25,8.17,8.47,16.00
"Lightsmark - Resolution: 1400 x 1050 (FPS)",HIB,8.34,3.79,3.07,
"World of Padman - Resolution: 1400 x 1050 (FPS)",HIB,8.93,9.20,8,4.27
"OpenArena - Resolution: 800 x 600 (FPS)",HIB,56.80,27.50,28.10,
"Nexuiz - Resolution: 1400 x 1050 - HDR: No - Sound: Off (FPS)",HIB,5.38,2.83,2.81,
"Nexuiz - Resolution: 800 x 600 - HDR: No - Sound: Off (FPS)",HIB,16.75,11.67,11.85,
"Warsow - Resolution: 1400 x 1050 (FPS)",HIB,11.18,6.37,4.17,5.90