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.
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phoronix-test-suite benchmark 1201285-BY-MESA80INT35
Mesa 8.0 Intel DRI Driver,
"VDrift 2010-06-30 - Resolution: 1280 x 1024",
Higher Results Are Better
"i945G Mesa 7.11.2 Git",7.27729,7.255,7.29133
"i945G Mesa 8.0-rc2 Git",7.2683,6.94906,7.34027
"OpenArena 0.8.5 - Resolution: 1280 x 1024",
Higher Results Are Better
"i945G Mesa 7.11.2 Git",12.6,13,13.1
"i945G Mesa 8.0-rc2 Git",13.6,12.7,12.5,12.7,12.4,12.9
"World of Padman 1.2 - Resolution: 1280 x 1024",
Higher Results Are Better
"i945G Mesa 7.11.2 Git",11.8,11.7,11.4
"i945G Mesa 8.0-rc2 Git",11.6,11.6,11.6
"OpenArena 0.8.5 - Resolution: 800 x 600",
Higher Results Are Better
"i945G Mesa 7.11.2 Git",26,25.6,25.9
"i945G Mesa 8.0-rc2 Git",25.7,25.9,25.8
"World of Padman 1.2 - Resolution: 800 x 600",
Higher Results Are Better
"i945G Mesa 7.11.2 Git",18.7,18.8,18.7
"i945G Mesa 8.0-rc2 Git",18.2,18.6,20.8,20.9,20.7,20.9