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.
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
Graphics Notes: EXA
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
Kernel Notes: nouveau.perflvl_wr=7777
Graphics Notes: EXA
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
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
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 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
Graphics Notes: EXA
Testing initiated at 5 August 2013 12:50 by user phoronix.
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
Kernel Notes: nouveau.perflvl_wr=7777
Graphics Notes: EXA
Testing initiated at 6 August 2013 08:12 by user phoronix.
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
Kernel Notes: nouveau.perflvl_wr=7777
Graphics Notes: EXA
Testing initiated at 5 August 2013 14:22 by user phoronix.
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
Kernel Notes: nouveau.perflvl_wr=7777
Graphics Notes: EXA
Testing initiated at 5 August 2013 15:58 by user phoronix.