Mesa Radeon HD 4870 Linux Performance Comparison Benchmarks of Mesa 7.9.2 R600c DRI driver through Mesa 8.1-devel R600g Gallium3D benchmarks when comparing Mesa releases for a Radeon HD 4870 (RV770) graphics card. The rest of the stack was maintained the same in the latest shape... Looking at the Mesa performance over time for open-source AMD Radeon driver performance for a future article on Phoronix.com by Michael Larabel. Mesa 7.9.2 R600c: 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: AMD Radeon HD 4870 512MB (750/900MHz), Audio: Realtek ALC892, Monitor: DELL P2210H, Network: Realtek RTL8111/8168B + Intel Centrino Advanced-N 6205 OS: Ubuntu 12.10, Kernel: 3.5.0-030500-generic (x86_64), Desktop: Unity 2D 6.0.0, Display Server: X Server 1.12.1.902 (1.12.2 RC 2), Display Driver: radeon 6.14.4, OpenGL: 2.1 Mesa 7.9.2, Compiler: GCC 4.7, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 1920x1080 Mesa 7.10.3 R600g: 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: AMD Radeon HD 4870 512MB (750/900MHz), Audio: Realtek ALC892, Monitor: DELL P2210H, Network: Realtek RTL8111/8168B + Intel Centrino Advanced-N 6205 OS: Ubuntu 12.10, Kernel: 3.5.0-030500-generic (x86_64), Desktop: Unity 2D 6.0.0, Display Server: X Server 1.12.1.902 (1.12.2 RC 2), Display Driver: radeon 6.14.4, OpenGL: 2.1 Mesa 7.10.3 Gallium 0.4, Compiler: GCC 4.7, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 1920x1080 Mesa 7.11.2 R600g: 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: AMD Radeon HD 4870 512MB (750/900MHz), Audio: Realtek ALC892, Monitor: DELL P2210H, Network: Realtek RTL8111/8168B + Intel Centrino Advanced-N 6205 OS: Ubuntu 12.10, Kernel: 3.5.0-030500-generic (x86_64), Desktop: Unity 2D 6.0.0, Display Server: X Server 1.12.1.902 (1.12.2 RC 2), Display Driver: radeon 6.14.4, OpenGL: 2.1 Mesa 7.11.2 (git-ecf0bef) Gallium 0.4, Compiler: GCC 4.7, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 1920x1080 Mesa 8.0.4 R600g: 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: AMD Radeon HD 4870 512MB (750/900MHz), Audio: Realtek ALC892, Monitor: DELL P2210H, Network: Realtek RTL8111/8168B + Intel Centrino Advanced-N 6205 OS: Ubuntu 12.10, Kernel: 3.5.0-030500-generic (x86_64), Desktop: Unity 2D 6.0.0, Display Server: X Server 1.12.1.902 (1.12.2 RC 2), Display Driver: radeon 6.14.4, OpenGL: 2.1 Mesa 8.0.4 (git-539a02b) Gallium 0.4, Compiler: GCC 4.7, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 1920x1080 Mesa 8.1-devel R600g: 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: AMD Radeon HD 4870 512MB (750/900MHz), Audio: Realtek ALC892, Monitor: DELL P2210H, Network: Realtek RTL8111/8168B + Intel Centrino Advanced-N 6205 OS: Ubuntu 12.10, Kernel: 3.5.0-030500-generic (x86_64), Desktop: Unity 2D 6.0.0, Display Server: X Server 1.12.1.902 (1.12.2 RC 2), Display Driver: radeon 6.14.4, OpenGL: 2.1 Mesa 8.1-devel (git-27013e5) Gallium 0.4, Compiler: GCC 4.7, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 1920x1080 Doom 3 1.3.1 Resolution: 1920 x 1080 - Quality: Low Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better Mesa 7.9.2 R600c ..... 49.63 |================================================ Mesa 7.10.3 R600g .... 50.07 |================================================= Mesa 7.11.2 R600g .... 50.23 |================================================= Mesa 8.0.4 R600g ..... 50.27 |================================================= Mesa 8.1-devel R600g . 49.87 |================================================= Lightsmark 2008 Resolution: 1920 x 1080 Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better Mesa 7.9.2 R600c ..... 49.81 |======================= Mesa 7.10.3 R600g .... 31.33 |============== Mesa 7.11.2 R600g .... 82.05 |===================================== Mesa 8.0.4 R600g ..... 82.65 |====================================== Mesa 8.1-devel R600g . 105.52 |================================================ Nexuiz 2.5.2 Resolution: 1920 x 1080 - HDR: Yes - Sound: On Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better Mesa 7.9.2 R600c ..... 24.23 |================= Mesa 7.10.3 R600g .... 49.92 |================================== Mesa 7.11.2 R600g .... 61.39 |========================================== Mesa 8.0.4 R600g ..... 55.85 |====================================== Mesa 8.1-devel R600g . 71.36 |================================================= OpenArena 0.8.5 Resolution: 1920 x 1080 Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better Mesa 7.9.2 R600c ..... 101.40 |================================== Mesa 7.10.3 R600g .... 141.87 |================================================ Mesa 7.11.2 R600g .... 122.20 |========================================= Mesa 8.0.4 R600g ..... 116.97 |======================================== Mesa 8.1-devel R600g . 120.00 |========================================= OpenArena 0.8.8 Resolution: 1920 x 1080 Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better Mesa 7.9.2 R600c ..... 43.90 |============================================== Mesa 7.10.3 R600g .... 25.67 |=========================== Mesa 7.11.2 R600g .... 47.27 |================================================= Mesa 8.0.4 R600g ..... 47.23 |================================================= Mesa 8.1-devel R600g . 28.67 |============================== World of Padman 1.2 Resolution: 1920 x 1080 Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better Mesa 7.9.2 R600c ..... 77.67 |========================== Mesa 7.10.3 R600g .... 108.70 |===================================== Mesa 7.11.2 R600g .... 132.03 |============================================= Mesa 8.0.4 R600g ..... 132.57 |============================================= Mesa 8.1-devel R600g . 142.27 |================================================ Prey 1.4.119 Resolution: 1920 x 1080 Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better Mesa 7.9.2 R600c ..... 64.33 |================================================= Mesa 7.10.3 R600g .... 64.50 |================================================= Mesa 7.11.2 R600g .... 64.57 |================================================= Mesa 8.0.4 R600g ..... 64.67 |================================================= Mesa 8.1-devel R600g . 64.50 |================================================= Smokin Guns 1.1b4 Resolution: 1920 x 1080 Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better Mesa 7.9.2 R600c ..... 110.07 |=============================================== Mesa 7.10.3 R600g .... 110.93 |================================================ Mesa 7.11.2 R600g .... 111.27 |================================================ Mesa 8.0.4 R600g ..... 111.20 |================================================ Mesa 8.1-devel R600g . 109.27 |=============================================== VDrift 2010-06-30 Resolution: 1920 x 1080 Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better Mesa 7.10.3 R600g .... 48.48 |=========================== Mesa 7.11.2 R600g .... 84.25 |=============================================== Mesa 8.0.4 R600g ..... 83.56 |============================================== Mesa 8.1-devel R600g . 88.41 |================================================= Warsow 0.61 Resolution: 1920 x 1080 Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better Mesa 7.9.2 R600c ..... 41.73 |================================================= Mesa 7.10.3 R600g .... 34.00 |======================================== Mesa 7.11.2 R600g .... 28.57 |================================== Mesa 8.0.4 R600g ..... 28.57 |================================== Mesa 8.1-devel R600g . 35.23 |========================================= Warsow 1.0 Resolution: 1920 x 1080 Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better Mesa 7.9.2 R600c ..... 31.70 |================================================= Mesa 7.10.3 R600g .... 28.87 |============================================= Mesa 7.11.2 R600g .... 21.63 |================================= Mesa 8.0.4 R600g ..... 21.63 |================================= Mesa 8.1-devel R600g . 24.33 |====================================== Xonotic 0.6 Resolution: 1920 x 1080 - Effects Quality: Low Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better Mesa 7.9.2 R600c ..... 87.84 |================================ Mesa 7.10.3 R600g .... 93.96 |================================== Mesa 7.11.2 R600g .... 120.83 |=========================================== Mesa 8.0.4 R600g ..... 124.66 |============================================= Mesa 8.1-devel R600g . 133.50 |================================================ Xonotic 0.6 Resolution: 1920 x 1080 - Effects Quality: High Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better Mesa 7.9.2 R600c ..... 42.62 |=============================== Mesa 7.10.3 R600g .... 42.03 |============================== Mesa 7.11.2 R600g .... 58.22 |========================================== Mesa 8.0.4 R600g ..... 58.73 |========================================== Mesa 8.1-devel R600g . 68.14 |=================================================