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.
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
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
This is a test of OpenArena, a popular open-source first-person shooter. This game is based upon ioquake3, which in turn uses the GPL version of id Software's Quake 3 engine. Learn more via the OpenBenchmarking.org test page.
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
Testing initiated at 28 January 2012 09:22 by user phoronix.
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
Testing initiated at 28 January 2012 11:16 by user phoronix.