Mesa 8.0 Intel DRI Driver
Looking at the Mesa i915 classic DRI driver performance under the Git branches of Mesa 8.0 and Mesa 7.11 series. Testing from an Intel Atom 330 system running an Ubuntu 12.04 LTS snapshot and Intel i945G integrated graphics. Testing for a future article on Phoronix.com.


i945G Mesa 7.11.2 Git: 

	Processor: Intel Atom 330 @ 1.60GHz (4 Cores), Motherboard: MSI MS-7467, Chipset: Intel 82945G/GZ/P/PL + ICH7, Memory: 1024MB, Disk: 250GB SAMSUNG HD253GJ, Graphics: Intel 82945G/GZ IGP, Audio: Realtek ALC888, Monitor: DELL P2210H, Network: Realtek RTL8111/8168B

	OS: Ubuntu 12.04, Kernel: 3.2.0-10-generic (x86_64), Desktop: KDE 4.8.00, Display Server: X Server 1.11.3, Display Driver: intel 2.17.0, OpenGL: 1.4 Mesa 7.11.2 (git-9ae2499), Compiler: GCC 4.6 + Clang 4.2.1, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 1920x1080

i945G Mesa 8.0-rc2 Git: 

	Processor: Intel Atom 330 @ 1.60GHz (4 Cores), Motherboard: MSI MS-7467, Chipset: Intel 82945G/GZ/P/PL + ICH7, Memory: 1024MB, Disk: 250GB SAMSUNG HD253GJ, Graphics: Intel 82945G/GZ IGP, Audio: Realtek ALC888, Monitor: DELL P2210H, Network: Realtek RTL8111/8168B

	OS: Ubuntu 12.04, Kernel: 3.2.0-10-generic (x86_64), Desktop: KDE 4.8.00, Display Server: X Server 1.11.3, Display Driver: intel 2.17.0, OpenGL: 1.4 Mesa 8.0-rc2 (git-0dddf4c), Compiler: GCC 4.6 + Clang 4.2.1, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 1920x1080


OpenArena 0.8.5
Resolution: 1280 x 1024
Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better
i945G Mesa 7.11.2 Git .. 12.90 |===============================================
i945G Mesa 8.0-rc2 Git . 12.80 |===============================================


World of Padman 1.2
Resolution: 1280 x 1024
Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better
i945G Mesa 7.11.2 Git .. 11.63 |===============================================
i945G Mesa 8.0-rc2 Git . 11.60 |===============================================


VDrift 2010-06-30
Resolution: 1280 x 1024
Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better
i945G Mesa 7.11.2 Git .. 7.27 |================================================
i945G Mesa 8.0-rc2 Git . 7.19 |===============================================


OpenArena 0.8.5
Resolution: 800 x 600
Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better
i945G Mesa 7.11.2 Git .. 25.83 |===============================================
i945G Mesa 8.0-rc2 Git . 25.80 |===============================================


World of Padman 1.2
Resolution: 800 x 600
Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better
i945G Mesa 7.11.2 Git .. 18.73 |============================================
i945G Mesa 8.0-rc2 Git . 20.02 |===============================================