Mesa 8.1-devel Nouveau Gallium3D NVIDIA Benchmarking of Nouveau Gallium3D open-source NVIDIA graphics driver comparing the performance of several NVIDIA graphics cards from different GeForce GPU generations. Benchmarking to compare Mesa 8.0.4 Git and Mesa 8.1-devel Git but also with updated libdrm and xf86-video-nouveau X.Org driver in between due to the libdrm breakage. Using Git from ubuntu Linux. Benchmarking for a future article on Phoronix.com by Michael Larabel. GeForce 8400GS: Mesa 8.0.4: Processor: Intel Core i7-3770K @ 3.50GHz (8 Cores), Motherboard: ECS Z77H2-A2X v1.0, Chipset: Intel Xeon E3-1200 v2/3rd, Memory: 8192MB, Disk: 240GB OCZ VERTEX3, Graphics: NVIDIA GeForce 8400 GS 256MB (500/333MHz), Audio: Realtek ALC892, Monitor: DELL P2210H, Network: Realtek RTL8111/8168B + Intel Centrino Advanced-N 6205 OS: Ubuntu 12.10, Kernel: 3.5.0-999-generic (x86_64), Desktop: Unity 6.0.0, Display Server: X Server 1.12.1.902 (1.12.2 RC 2), Display Driver: nouveau 0.0.16, OpenGL: 2.1 Mesa 8.0.4 (git-8d0fd58) Gallium 0.4, Compiler: GCC 4.7 + LLVM 3.0, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 1920x1080 GeForce 8400GS: Mesa 8.1-devel: Processor: Intel Core i7-3770K @ 3.50GHz (8 Cores), Motherboard: ECS Z77H2-A2X v1.0, Chipset: Intel Xeon E3-1200 v2/3rd, Memory: 8192MB, Disk: 240GB OCZ VERTEX3, Graphics: NVIDIA GeForce 8400 GS 256MB (500/333MHz), Audio: Realtek ALC892, Monitor: DELL P2210H, Network: Realtek RTL8111/8168B + Intel Centrino Advanced-N 6205 OS: Ubuntu 12.10, Kernel: 3.5.0-999-generic (x86_64), Desktop: Unity 6.0.0, Display Server: X Server 1.12.1.902 (1.12.2 RC 2), Display Driver: nouveau 1.0.1, OpenGL: 2.1 Mesa 8.1-devel (git-636646a) Gallium 0.4, Compiler: GCC 4.7 + LLVM 3.0, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 1920x1080 GeForce 9500GT: Mesa 8.0.4: Processor: Intel Core i7-3770K @ 3.50GHz (8 Cores), Motherboard: ECS Z77H2-A2X v1.0, Chipset: Intel Xeon E3-1200 v2/3rd, Memory: 8192MB, Disk: 240GB OCZ VERTEX3, Graphics: NVIDIA GeForce 9500 GT 1024MB (550/399MHz), Audio: Realtek ALC892, Monitor: DELL P2210H, Network: Realtek RTL8111/8168B + Intel Centrino Advanced-N 6205 OS: Ubuntu 12.10, Kernel: 3.5.0-999-generic (x86_64), Desktop: Unity 6.0.0, Display Server: X Server 1.12.1.902 (1.12.2 RC 2), Display Driver: nouveau 0.0.16, OpenGL: 2.1 Mesa 8.0.4 (git-8d0fd58) Gallium 0.4, Compiler: GCC 4.7 + LLVM 3.0, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 1920x1080 GeForce 9500GT: Mesa 8.1-devel: Processor: Intel Core i7-3770K @ 3.50GHz (8 Cores), Motherboard: ECS Z77H2-A2X v1.0, Chipset: Intel Xeon E3-1200 v2/3rd, Memory: 8192MB, Disk: 240GB OCZ VERTEX3, Graphics: NVIDIA GeForce 9500 GT 1024MB (550/399MHz), Audio: Realtek ALC892, Monitor: DELL P2210H, Network: Realtek RTL8111/8168B + Intel Centrino Advanced-N 6205 OS: Ubuntu 12.10, Kernel: 3.5.0-999-generic (x86_64), Desktop: Unity 6.0.0, Display Server: X Server 1.12.1.902 (1.12.2 RC 2), Display Driver: nouveau 1.0.1, OpenGL: 2.1 Mesa 8.1-devel (git-636646a) Gallium 0.4, Compiler: GCC 4.7 + LLVM 3.0, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 1920x1080 GeForce 9800GTX: Mesa 8.0.4: Processor: Intel Core i7-3770K @ 3.50GHz (8 Cores), Motherboard: ECS Z77H2-A2X v1.0, Chipset: Intel Xeon E3-1200 v2/3rd, Memory: 8192MB, Disk: 240GB OCZ VERTEX3, Graphics: NVIDIA GeForce 9800 GTX 512MB (675/1101MHz), Audio: Realtek ALC892, Monitor: DELL P2210H, Network: Realtek RTL8111/8168B + Intel Centrino Advanced-N 6205 OS: Ubuntu 12.10, Kernel: 3.5.0-999-generic (x86_64), Desktop: Unity 6.0.0, Display Server: X Server 1.12.1.902 (1.12.2 RC 2), Display Driver: nouveau 0.0.16, OpenGL: 2.1 Mesa 8.0.4 (git-8d0fd58) Gallium 0.4, Compiler: GCC 4.7 + LLVM 3.0, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 1920x1080 GeForce 9800GTX: Mesa 8.1-devel: Processor: Intel Core i7-3770K @ 3.50GHz (8 Cores), Motherboard: ECS Z77H2-A2X v1.0, Chipset: Intel Xeon E3-1200 v2/3rd, Memory: 8192MB, Disk: 240GB OCZ VERTEX3, Graphics: NVIDIA GeForce 9800 GTX 512MB (675/1101MHz), Audio: Realtek ALC892, Monitor: DELL P2210H, Network: Realtek RTL8111/8168B + Intel Centrino Advanced-N 6205 OS: Ubuntu 12.10, Kernel: 3.5.0-999-generic (x86_64), Desktop: Unity 6.0.0, Display Server: X Server 1.12.1.902 (1.12.2 RC 2), Display Driver: nouveau 1.0.1, OpenGL: 2.1 Mesa 8.1-devel (git-636646a) Gallium 0.4, Compiler: GCC 4.7 + LLVM 3.0, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 1920x1080 GeForce GT 220: Mesa 8.0.4: Processor: Intel Core i7-3770K @ 3.50GHz (8 Cores), Motherboard: ECS Z77H2-A2X v1.0, Chipset: Intel Xeon E3-1200 v2/3rd, Memory: 8192MB, Disk: 240GB OCZ VERTEX3, Graphics: NVIDIA GeForce GT 220 1024MB (625/405MHz), Audio: Realtek ALC892, Monitor: DELL P2210H, Network: Realtek RTL8111/8168B + Intel Centrino Advanced-N 6205 OS: Ubuntu 12.10, Kernel: 3.5.0-999-generic (x86_64), Desktop: Unity 6.0.0, Display Server: X Server 1.12.1.902 (1.12.2 RC 2), Display Driver: nouveau 0.0.16, OpenGL: 2.1 Mesa 8.0.4 (git-8d0fd58) Gallium 0.4, Compiler: GCC 4.7 + LLVM 3.0, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 1920x1080 GeForce GT 220: Mesa 8.1-devel: Processor: Intel Core i7-3770K @ 3.50GHz (8 Cores), Motherboard: ECS Z77H2-A2X v1.0, Chipset: Intel Xeon E3-1200 v2/3rd, Memory: 8192MB, Disk: 240GB OCZ VERTEX3, Graphics: NVIDIA GeForce GT 220 1024MB (625/405MHz), Audio: Realtek ALC892, Monitor: DELL P2210H, Network: Realtek RTL8111/8168B + Intel Centrino Advanced-N 6205 OS: Ubuntu 12.10, Kernel: 3.5.0-999-generic (x86_64), Desktop: Unity 6.0.0, Display Server: X Server 1.12.1.902 (1.12.2 RC 2), Display Driver: nouveau 1.0.1, OpenGL: 2.1 Mesa 8.1-devel (git-636646a) Gallium 0.4, Compiler: GCC 4.7 + LLVM 3.0, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 1920x1080 CoreBreach 1.1.6 Resolution: 1920 x 1080 - FSAA: 0 Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better GeForce 8400GS: Mesa 8.0.4 ...... 61 |====== GeForce 8400GS: Mesa 8.1-devel .. 59 |====== GeForce 9500GT: Mesa 8.0.4 ...... 128 |============= GeForce 9500GT: Mesa 8.1-devel .. 141 |============== GeForce 9800GTX: Mesa 8.0.4 ..... 324 |================================ GeForce 9800GTX: Mesa 8.1-devel . 401 |======================================== GeForce GT 220: Mesa 8.0.4 ...... 127 |============= GeForce GT 220: Mesa 8.1-devel .. 147 |=============== Doom 3 1.3.1 Resolution: 1920 x 1080 - Quality: Low Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better GeForce 8400GS: Mesa 8.0.4 ...... 7.77 |==== GeForce 8400GS: Mesa 8.1-devel .. 7.67 |==== GeForce 9500GT: Mesa 8.0.4 ...... 22.03 |============= GeForce 9500GT: Mesa 8.1-devel .. 22.00 |============= GeForce 9800GTX: Mesa 8.0.4 ..... 65.30 |===================================== GeForce 9800GTX: Mesa 8.1-devel . 66.57 |====================================== GeForce GT 220: Mesa 8.0.4 ...... 24.73 |============== GeForce GT 220: Mesa 8.1-devel .. 24.80 |============== ETXreaL 0.3.0-20111110 Resolution: 1920 x 1080 Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better GeForce 8400GS: Mesa 8.0.4 ...... 7.00 |==== GeForce 8400GS: Mesa 8.1-devel .. 3.73 |== GeForce 9500GT: Mesa 8.0.4 ...... 24.83 |============== GeForce 9500GT: Mesa 8.1-devel .. 7.00 |==== GeForce 9800GTX: Mesa 8.0.4 ..... 36.47 |===================== GeForce 9800GTX: Mesa 8.1-devel . 40.50 |======================= GeForce GT 220: Mesa 8.0.4 ...... 66.13 |====================================== GeForce GT 220: Mesa 8.1-devel .. 39.82 |======================= Lightsmark 2008 Resolution: 1920 x 1080 Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better GeForce 8400GS: Mesa 8.0.4 ...... 8.96 |=== GeForce 9500GT: Mesa 8.0.4 ...... 27.63 |========== GeForce 9500GT: Mesa 8.1-devel .. 31.92 |=========== GeForce 9800GTX: Mesa 8.0.4 ..... 79.39 |============================ GeForce 9800GTX: Mesa 8.1-devel . 106.36 |===================================== GeForce GT 220: Mesa 8.0.4 ...... 37.70 |============= GeForce GT 220: Mesa 8.1-devel .. 45.87 |================ OpenArena 0.8.5 Resolution: 1920 x 1080 Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better GeForce 8400GS: Mesa 8.0.4 ...... 29.77 |====== GeForce 8400GS: Mesa 8.1-devel .. 26.00 |===== GeForce 9500GT: Mesa 8.0.4 ...... 91.43 |================= GeForce 9500GT: Mesa 8.1-devel .. 85.43 |================ GeForce 9800GTX: Mesa 8.0.4 ..... 199.30 |===================================== GeForce 9800GTX: Mesa 8.1-devel . 196.20 |==================================== GeForce GT 220: Mesa 8.0.4 ...... 91.77 |================= GeForce GT 220: Mesa 8.1-devel .. 89.73 |================= OpenArena 0.8.8 Resolution: 1920 x 1080 Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better GeForce 8400GS: Mesa 8.0.4 ...... 9.70 |=== GeForce 8400GS: Mesa 8.1-devel .. 8.33 |=== GeForce 9500GT: Mesa 8.0.4 ...... 31.60 |=========== GeForce 9500GT: Mesa 8.1-devel .. 27.60 |========== GeForce 9800GTX: Mesa 8.0.4 ..... 106.03 |===================================== GeForce 9800GTX: Mesa 8.1-devel . 96.20 |================================== GeForce GT 220: Mesa 8.0.4 ...... 34.60 |============ GeForce GT 220: Mesa 8.1-devel .. 32.23 |=========== World of Padman 1.2 Resolution: 1920 x 1080 Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better GeForce 8400GS: Mesa 8.0.4 ...... 36.43 |======= GeForce 8400GS: Mesa 8.1-devel .. 36.00 |======= GeForce 9500GT: Mesa 8.0.4 ...... 103.97 |==================== GeForce 9500GT: Mesa 8.1-devel .. 109.07 |===================== GeForce 9800GTX: Mesa 8.0.4 ..... 163.57 |=============================== GeForce 9800GTX: Mesa 8.1-devel . 195.87 |===================================== GeForce GT 220: Mesa 8.0.4 ...... 104.93 |==================== GeForce GT 220: Mesa 8.1-devel .. 112.50 |===================== Prey 1.4.119 Resolution: 1920 x 1080 Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better GeForce 8400GS: Mesa 8.0.4 ...... 6.40 |==== GeForce 8400GS: Mesa 8.1-devel .. 6.33 |==== GeForce 9500GT: Mesa 8.0.4 ...... 19.50 |============ GeForce 9500GT: Mesa 8.1-devel .. 19.40 |============ GeForce 9800GTX: Mesa 8.0.4 ..... 62.37 |====================================== GeForce 9800GTX: Mesa 8.1-devel . 62.63 |====================================== GeForce GT 220: Mesa 8.0.4 ...... 22.87 |============== GeForce GT 220: Mesa 8.1-devel .. 22.77 |============== Smokin Guns 1.1b4 Resolution: 1920 x 1080 Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better GeForce 8400GS: Mesa 8.0.4 ...... 34.90 |=========== GeForce 8400GS: Mesa 8.1-devel .. 33.80 |=========== GeForce 9500GT: Mesa 8.0.4 ...... 99.87 |================================ GeForce 9500GT: Mesa 8.1-devel .. 99.83 |================================ GeForce 9800GTX: Mesa 8.0.4 ..... 113.50 |==================================== GeForce 9800GTX: Mesa 8.1-devel . 117.20 |===================================== GeForce GT 220: Mesa 8.0.4 ...... 100.87 |================================ GeForce GT 220: Mesa 8.1-devel .. 101.23 |================================ Urban Terror 4.1 Resolution: 1920 x 1080 Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better GeForce 8400GS: Mesa 8.0.4 ...... 31.43 |========== GeForce 8400GS: Mesa 8.1-devel .. 31.33 |========== GeForce 9500GT: Mesa 8.0.4 ...... 87.23 |============================ GeForce 9500GT: Mesa 8.1-devel .. 89.10 |============================= GeForce 9800GTX: Mesa 8.0.4 ..... 100.87 |================================= GeForce 9800GTX: Mesa 8.1-devel . 114.73 |===================================== GeForce GT 220: Mesa 8.0.4 ...... 87.30 |============================ GeForce GT 220: Mesa 8.1-devel .. 92.13 |============================== VDrift 2010-06-30 Resolution: 1920 x 1080 Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better GeForce 8400GS: Mesa 8.0.4 ...... 20.20 |==== GeForce 8400GS: Mesa 8.1-devel .. 20.72 |==== GeForce 9500GT: Mesa 8.0.4 ...... 54.93 |========== GeForce 9500GT: Mesa 8.1-devel .. 58.67 |========== GeForce 9800GTX: Mesa 8.0.4 ..... 167.88 |============================= GeForce 9800GTX: Mesa 8.1-devel . 212.43 |===================================== GeForce GT 220: Mesa 8.0.4 ...... 55.50 |========== GeForce GT 220: Mesa 8.1-devel .. 59.49 |========== Xonotic 0.6 Resolution: 1920 x 1080 - Effects Quality: Low Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better GeForce 8400GS: Mesa 8.0.4 ...... 33.86 |======== GeForce 8400GS: Mesa 8.1-devel .. 32.68 |======= GeForce 9500GT: Mesa 8.0.4 ...... 93.53 |===================== GeForce 9500GT: Mesa 8.1-devel .. 98.89 |======================= GeForce 9800GTX: Mesa 8.0.4 ..... 157.23 |==================================== GeForce 9800GTX: Mesa 8.1-devel . 162.57 |===================================== GeForce GT 220: Mesa 8.0.4 ...... 100.80 |======================= GeForce GT 220: Mesa 8.1-devel .. 107.11 |======================== Xonotic 0.6 Resolution: 1920 x 1080 - Effects Quality: High Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better GeForce 8400GS: Mesa 8.0.4 ...... 8.66 |=== GeForce 9500GT: Mesa 8.0.4 ...... 34.48 |============ GeForce 9500GT: Mesa 8.1-devel .. 34.57 |============ GeForce 9800GTX: Mesa 8.0.4 ..... 101.47 |==================================== GeForce 9800GTX: Mesa 8.1-devel . 103.96 |===================================== GeForce GT 220: Mesa 8.0.4 ...... 40.14 |============== GeForce GT 220: Mesa 8.1-devel .. 40.60 |============== Warsow 0.61 Resolution: 1920 x 1080 Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better GeForce 8400GS: Mesa 8.0.4 ...... 12.43 |=== GeForce 9500GT: Mesa 8.0.4 ...... 45.50 |=========== GeForce 9500GT: Mesa 8.1-devel .. 45.03 |=========== GeForce 9800GTX: Mesa 8.0.4 ..... 149.07 |==================================== GeForce 9800GTX: Mesa 8.1-devel . 152.57 |===================================== GeForce GT 220: Mesa 8.0.4 ...... 56.27 |============== GeForce GT 220: Mesa 8.1-devel .. 60.23 |===============