Nouveau Mesa 9.2 GeForce Tests Nouveau Mesa 9.1 vs. Mesa 9.2 tests on two NVIDIA GeForce graphics cards. Benchmarks by Michael Larabel for a future article on phoronix.com. 9800GTX: Mesa 9.1.6 git-0dbbfa0: Processor: Intel Core i7-4770K @ 3.50GHz (8 Cores), Motherboard: Intel DH87RL, Chipset: Intel Haswell DRAM, Memory: 16384MB, Disk: 240GB OCZ VERTEX3, Graphics: NVIDIA GeForce 9800 GTX / 9800 GTX+ 512MB (675/1101MHz), Audio: Realtek ALC892, Monitor: VA2431, Network: Intel Connection I217-V + Intel Centrino Advanced-N 6205 OS: Ubuntu 13.04, Kernel: 3.8.0-19-generic (x86_64), Desktop: Xfce 4.10, Display Server: X Server 1.13.3, Display Driver: nouveau 1.0.7, OpenGL: 3.0 Mesa 9.1.6 (git-0dbbfa0) Gallium 0.4, Compiler: GCC 4.7 + LLVM 3.2, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 1920x1080 9800GTX: Mesa 9.2-devel git-e8bc520: Processor: Intel Core i7-4770K @ 3.50GHz (8 Cores), Motherboard: Intel DH87RL, Chipset: Intel Haswell DRAM, Memory: 16384MB, Disk: 240GB OCZ VERTEX3, Graphics: NVIDIA GeForce 9800 GTX / 9800 GTX+ 512MB (675/1101MHz), Audio: Realtek ALC892, Monitor: VA2431, Network: Intel Connection I217-V + Intel Centrino Advanced-N 6205 OS: Ubuntu 13.04, Kernel: 3.8.0-19-generic (x86_64), Desktop: Xfce 4.10, Display Server: X Server 1.13.3, Display Driver: nouveau 1.0.7, OpenGL: 3.0 Mesa 9.2.0-devel (git-e8bc520) Gallium 0.4, Compiler: GCC 4.7 + LLVM 3.2, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 1920x1080 GT 220: Mesa 9.1.6 git-0dbbfa0: Processor: Intel Core i7-4770K @ 3.50GHz (8 Cores), Motherboard: Intel DH87RL, Chipset: Intel Haswell DRAM, Memory: 16384MB, Disk: 240GB OCZ VERTEX3, Graphics: XFX NVIDIA GeForce GT 220 1024MB (625/405MHz), Audio: Realtek ALC892, Monitor: VA2431, Network: Intel Connection I217-V + Intel Centrino Advanced-N 6205 OS: Ubuntu 13.04, Kernel: 3.8.0-19-generic (x86_64), Desktop: Xfce 4.10, Display Server: X Server 1.13.3, Display Driver: nouveau 1.0.7, OpenGL: 3.0 Mesa 9.1.6 (git-0dbbfa0) Gallium 0.4, Compiler: GCC 4.7 + LLVM 3.2, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 1920x1080 GT 220: Mesa 9.2-devel git-e8bc520: Processor: Intel Core i7-4770K @ 3.50GHz (8 Cores), Motherboard: Intel DH87RL, Chipset: Intel Haswell DRAM, Memory: 16384MB, Disk: 240GB OCZ VERTEX3, Graphics: XFX NVIDIA GeForce GT 220 1024MB (625/405MHz), Audio: Realtek ALC892, Monitor: VA2431, Network: Intel Connection I217-V + Intel Centrino Advanced-N 6205 OS: Ubuntu 13.04, Kernel: 3.8.0-19-generic (x86_64), Desktop: Xfce 4.10, Display Server: X Server 1.13.3, Display Driver: nouveau 1.0.7, OpenGL: 3.0 Mesa 9.2.0-devel (git-e8bc520) Gallium 0.4, Compiler: GCC 4.7 + LLVM 3.2, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 1920x1080 Nexuiz 2.5.2 Resolution: 1920 x 1080 - HDR: Yes - Sound: On Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better 9800GTX: Mesa 9.1.6 git-0dbbfa0 ..... 71.63 |================================== 9800GTX: Mesa 9.2-devel git-e8bc520 . 70.32 |================================= GT 220: Mesa 9.1.6 git-0dbbfa0 ...... 19.58 |========= GT 220: Mesa 9.2-devel git-e8bc520 .. 19.56 |========= OpenArena 0.8.5 Resolution: 1920 x 1080 Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better 9800GTX: Mesa 9.1.6 git-0dbbfa0 ..... 342.87 |================================= 9800GTX: Mesa 9.2-devel git-e8bc520 . 328.63 |================================ GT 220: Mesa 9.1.6 git-0dbbfa0 ...... 134.50 |============= GT 220: Mesa 9.2-devel git-e8bc520 .. 134.50 |============= OpenArena 0.8.8 Resolution: 1920 x 1080 Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better 9800GTX: Mesa 9.1.6 git-0dbbfa0 ..... 110.93 |================================= 9800GTX: Mesa 9.2-devel git-e8bc520 . 107.27 |================================ GT 220: Mesa 9.1.6 git-0dbbfa0 ...... 38.13 |=========== GT 220: Mesa 9.2-devel git-e8bc520 .. 37.60 |=========== OpenArena 0.8.8 Resolution: 1920 x 1080 - Total Frame Time Milliseconds < Lower Is Better 9800GTX: Mesa 9.1.6 git-0dbbfa0 ..... MIN: 4.0 AVG: 9.0 MAX: 41.0 9800GTX: Mesa 9.2-devel git-e8bc520 . MIN: 4.0 AVG: 9.3 MAX: 40.0 GT 220: Mesa 9.1.6 git-0dbbfa0 ...... MIN: 13.0 AVG: 26.2 MAX: 59.0 GT 220: Mesa 9.2-devel git-e8bc520 .. MIN: 14.0 AVG: 26.6 MAX: 56.0 Unvanquished Alpha 17 Resolution: 1920 x 1080 Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better 9800GTX: Mesa 9.1.6 git-0dbbfa0 . 39.67 |====================================== Unvanquished Alpha 17 Resolution: 1920 x 1080 - Total Frame Time Milliseconds < Lower Is Better 9800GTX: Mesa 9.1.6 git-0dbbfa0 . MIN: 8.0 AVG: 24.7 MAX: 56.0 Urban Terror 4.2.013 Resolution: 1920 x 1080 Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better 9800GTX: Mesa 9.1.6 git-0dbbfa0 ..... 115.10 |================================= 9800GTX: Mesa 9.2-devel git-e8bc520 . 114.57 |================================= GT 220: Mesa 9.1.6 git-0dbbfa0 ...... 99.13 |============================ GT 220: Mesa 9.2-devel git-e8bc520 .. 97.40 |============================ Urban Terror 4.2.013 Resolution: 1920 x 1080 - Total Frame Time Milliseconds < Lower Is Better 9800GTX: Mesa 9.1.6 git-0dbbfa0 ..... MIN: 1.0 AVG: 8.5 MAX: 89.0 9800GTX: Mesa 9.2-devel git-e8bc520 . MIN: 1.0 AVG: 8.5 MAX: 95.0 GT 220: Mesa 9.1.6 git-0dbbfa0 ...... MIN: 1.0 AVG: 10.2 MAX: 22.0 GT 220: Mesa 9.2-devel git-e8bc520 .. MIN: 2.0 AVG: 10.2 MAX: 22.0 Xonotic 0.7 Resolution: 1680 x 1050 - Effects Quality: Low Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better 9800GTX: Mesa 9.1.6 git-0dbbfa0 ..... 277.00 |================================= 9800GTX: Mesa 9.2-devel git-e8bc520 . 274.45 |================================= GT 220: Mesa 9.1.6 git-0dbbfa0 ...... 143.29 |================= GT 220: Mesa 9.2-devel git-e8bc520 .. 142.87 |================= Xonotic 0.7 Resolution: 1680 x 1050 - Effects Quality: High Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better 9800GTX: Mesa 9.1.6 git-0dbbfa0 ..... 138.65 |================================= 9800GTX: Mesa 9.2-devel git-e8bc520 . 138.72 |================================= GT 220: Mesa 9.1.6 git-0dbbfa0 ...... 53.85 |============= GT 220: Mesa 9.2-devel git-e8bc520 .. 53.66 |============= GpuTest 0.5.0 Test: Plot3D - Resolution: 1920 x 1080 Points > Higher Is Better 9800GTX: Mesa 9.1.6 git-0dbbfa0 ..... 3711 |=================================== 9800GTX: Mesa 9.2-devel git-e8bc520 . 3710 |=================================== GT 220: Mesa 9.1.6 git-0dbbfa0 ...... 2456 |======================= GT 220: Mesa 9.2-devel git-e8bc520 .. 2459 |======================= GpuTest 0.5.0 Test: Furmark - Resolution: 1920 x 1080 Points > Higher Is Better 9800GTX: Mesa 9.1.6 git-0dbbfa0 ..... 746 |==================================== 9800GTX: Mesa 9.2-devel git-e8bc520 . 730 |=================================== GT 220: Mesa 9.1.6 git-0dbbfa0 ...... 191 |========= GT 220: Mesa 9.2-devel git-e8bc520 .. 191 |========= GpuTest 0.5.0 Test: Triangle - Resolution: 1920 x 1080 Points > Higher Is Better 9800GTX: Mesa 9.1.6 git-0dbbfa0 ..... 28956 |================================== 9800GTX: Mesa 9.2-devel git-e8bc520 . 29021 |================================== GT 220: Mesa 9.1.6 git-0dbbfa0 ...... 14058 |================ GT 220: Mesa 9.2-devel git-e8bc520 .. 14075 |================