HD 4870 Gallium3D Mesa 8.1
Benchmarking a ATI Radeon HD 4870 (RV770 GPU) graphics card on Mesa 8.1-devel, 8.0, 7.11, and 7.10 branches of Mesa Git. Testing for a future article on Phoronix.com by Michael Larabel. Swap buffers wait was disabled but besides that no other options set (e.g. 2D color tiling).


Mesa 7.10.3: 

	Processor: Intel Core i7 990X @ 3.47GHz (12 Cores), Motherboard: MSI X58M (MS-7593) v1.0, Chipset: Intel 5520/5500/X58 + ICH10R, Memory: 3072MB, Disk: 160GB Western Digital WD1600JS-00M, Graphics: AMD Radeon HD 4870 512MB, Audio: Realtek ALC889, Monitor: DELL P2210H, Network: Realtek RTL8111/8168B

	OS: Ubuntu 12.04, Kernel: 3.3.0-999-generic (x86_64), Desktop: Unity 5.4.0, Display Server: X Server 1.11.3, Display Driver: radeon 6.14.99, OpenGL: 2.1 Mesa 7.10.3 Gallium 0.4, Compiler: GCC 4.6, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 1920x1080

Mesa 7.11.2: 

	Processor: Intel Core i7 990X @ 3.47GHz (12 Cores), Motherboard: MSI X58M (MS-7593) v1.0, Chipset: Intel 5520/5500/X58 + ICH10R, Memory: 3072MB, Disk: 160GB Western Digital WD1600JS-00M, Graphics: AMD Radeon HD 4870 512MB, Audio: Realtek ALC889, Monitor: DELL P2210H, Network: Realtek RTL8111/8168B

	OS: Ubuntu 12.04, Kernel: 3.3.0-999-generic (x86_64), Desktop: Unity 5.4.0, Display Server: X Server 1.11.3, Display Driver: radeon 6.14.99, OpenGL: 2.1 Mesa 7.11.2 (git-906f670) Gallium 0.4, Compiler: GCC 4.6, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 1920x1080

Mesa 8.0.1: 

	Processor: Intel Core i7 990X @ 3.47GHz (12 Cores), Motherboard: MSI X58M (MS-7593) v1.0, Chipset: Intel 5520/5500/X58 + ICH10R, Memory: 3072MB, Disk: 160GB Western Digital WD1600JS-00M, Graphics: AMD Radeon HD 4870 512MB, Audio: Realtek ALC889, Monitor: DELL P2210H, Network: Realtek RTL8111/8168B

	OS: Ubuntu 12.04, Kernel: 3.3.0-999-generic (x86_64), Desktop: Unity 5.4.0, Display Server: X Server 1.11.3, Display Driver: radeon 6.14.99, OpenGL: 2.1 Mesa 8.0.1 (git-d38a295) Gallium 0.4, Compiler: GCC 4.6, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 1920x1080

Mesa 8.1-devel: 

	Processor: Intel Core i7 990X @ 3.47GHz (12 Cores), Motherboard: MSI X58M (MS-7593) v1.0, Chipset: Intel 5520/5500/X58 + ICH10R, Memory: 3072MB, Disk: 160GB Western Digital WD1600JS-00M, Graphics: AMD Radeon HD 4870 512MB, Audio: Realtek ALC889, Monitor: DELL P2210H, Network: Realtek RTL8111/8168B

	OS: Ubuntu 12.04, Kernel: 3.3.0-999-generic (x86_64), Desktop: Unity 5.4.0, Display Server: X Server 1.11.3, Display Driver: radeon 6.14.99, OpenGL: 2.1 Mesa 8.1-devel (git-3dd7b53) Gallium 0.4, Compiler: GCC 4.6, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 1920x1080


Doom 3 1.3.1
Resolution: 1280 x 1024 - Quality: Low
Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better
Mesa 7.10.3 .... 63.34 |=======================================================
Mesa 7.11.2 .... 62.78 |======================================================
Mesa 8.0.1 ..... 63.35 |=======================================================
Mesa 8.1-devel . 63.37 |=======================================================


Doom 3 1.3.1
Resolution: 1920 x 1080 - Quality: Low
Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better
Mesa 7.10.3 .... 47.90 |===================================================
Mesa 7.11.2 .... 47.67 |===================================================
Mesa 8.0.1 ..... 51.33 |=======================================================
Mesa 8.1-devel . 48.93 |====================================================


Nexuiz 2.5.2
Resolution: 1920 x 1080 - HDR: Yes - Sound: On
Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better
Mesa 7.10.3 .... 31.30 |=============================
Mesa 7.11.2 .... 42.85 |=======================================
Mesa 8.0.1 ..... 22.32 |====================
Mesa 8.1-devel . 60.30 |=======================================================


Xonotic 0.5
Resolution: 1024 x 768
Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better
Mesa 7.10.3 .... 63.59  |================================
Mesa 7.11.2 .... 89.87  |=============================================
Mesa 8.0.1 ..... 35.24  |==================
Mesa 8.1-devel . 107.52 |======================================================


Lightsmark 2008
Resolution: 1920 x 1080
Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better
Mesa 7.10.3 .... 28.39 |====================
Mesa 7.11.2 .... 76.20 |=====================================================
Mesa 8.0.1 ..... 75.04 |====================================================
Mesa 8.1-devel . 79.58 |=======================================================


OpenArena 0.8.5
Resolution: 1920 x 1080
Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better
Mesa 7.10.3 .... 155.17 |======================================================
Mesa 7.11.2 .... 135.77 |===============================================
Mesa 8.0.1 ..... 127.23 |============================================
Mesa 8.1-devel . 129.37 |=============================================


World of Padman 1.2
Resolution: 1920 x 1080
Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better
Mesa 7.10.3 .... 20.10  |========
Mesa 7.11.2 .... 126.17 |===================================================
Mesa 8.0.1 ..... 130.10 |=====================================================
Mesa 8.1-devel . 133.63 |======================================================


Urban Terror 4.1
Resolution: 1920 x 1080
Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better
Mesa 7.10.3 .... 76.90 |==============================================
Mesa 7.11.2 .... 88.70 |=====================================================
Mesa 8.0.1 ..... 90.13 |======================================================
Mesa 8.1-devel . 91.57 |=======================================================


Smokin Guns 1.1b4
Resolution: 1920 x 1080
Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better
Mesa 7.10.3 .... 110.40 |======================================================
Mesa 7.11.2 .... 104.30 |===================================================
Mesa 8.0.1 ..... 104.50 |===================================================
Mesa 8.1-devel . 104.30 |===================================================


Tremulous 1.1.0
Resolution: 1920 x 1080
Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better
Mesa 7.10.3 .... 133.07 |======================================================
Mesa 7.11.2 .... 122.87 |==================================================
Mesa 8.0.1 ..... 123.10 |==================================================
Mesa 8.1-devel . 123.90 |==================================================