Mesa 9.3 Haswell Gallium3D OpenGL
Intel Core i7-4900MQ Haswell HD Graphics 4600 testing of Mesa 9.3 Git with initial Haswell (Gen 7.5) support in the Intel ILO Gallium3D driver. OpenGL benchmarks comparing i965 Mesa DRI and ILO Gallium3D for Haswell HD Graphics 4600 on Ubuntu Linux. Benchmarks by Michael Larabel of Phoronix.com for a future article.


Intel i965 Mesa DRI: 

	Processor: Intel Core i7-4900MQ @ 2.80GHz (8 Cores), Motherboard: System76 Gazelle Professional, Chipset: Intel Xeon E3-1200 v3/4th, Memory: 8192MB, Disk: 120GB INTEL SSDSC2CW12, Graphics: Intel 4th Gen Core IGP (1300MHz), Audio: Intel Haswell HDMI, Network: Realtek RTL8111/8168/8411 + Intel Centrino Advanced-N 6235

	OS: Ubuntu 13.10, Kernel: 3.11.0-999-generic (x86_64), Desktop: Xfce 4.10, Display Server: X Server 1.14.2.901 (1.14.3 RC 1), Display Driver: intel 2.21.14, OpenGL: 3.1 Mesa 9.3.0-devel (git-e67f99b), Compiler: GCC 4.8 + LLVM 3.3, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 1920x1080

ILO Gallium3D: 

	Processor: Intel Core i7-4900MQ @ 2.80GHz (8 Cores), Motherboard: System76 Gazelle Professional, Chipset: Intel Xeon E3-1200 v3/4th, Memory: 8192MB, Disk: 120GB INTEL SSDSC2CW12, Graphics: Intel 4th Gen Core IGP (1300MHz), Audio: Intel Haswell HDMI, Network: Realtek RTL8111/8168/8411 + Intel Centrino Advanced-N 6235

	OS: Ubuntu 13.10, Kernel: 3.11.0-999-generic (x86_64), Desktop: Xfce 4.10, Display Server: X Server 1.14.2.901 (1.14.3 RC 1), Display Driver: intel 2.21.14, OpenGL: 2.1 Mesa 9.3.0-devel (git-e67f99b) Gallium 0.4, Compiler: GCC 4.8 + LLVM 3.3, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 1920x1080


GpuTest 0.5.0
Test: Plot3D - Resolution: 1920 x 1080
Points > Higher Is Better
Intel i965 Mesa DRI . 3692 |==========================
ILO Gallium3D ....... 7380 |===================================================


GpuTest 0.5.0
Test: Furmark - Resolution: 1920 x 1080
Points > Higher Is Better
Intel i965 Mesa DRI . 397 |====================================================
ILO Gallium3D ....... 185 |========================


GpuTest 0.5.0
Test: Triangle - Resolution: 1920 x 1080
Points > Higher Is Better
Intel i965 Mesa DRI . 38140 |==================================================
ILO Gallium3D ....... 23516 |===============================


GpuTest 0.5.0
Test: Pixmark Piano - Resolution: 1920 x 1080
Points > Higher Is Better
Intel i965 Mesa DRI . 92 |=====================================================


GpuTest 0.5.0
Test: Pixmark Volplosion - Resolution: 1920 x 1080
Points > Higher Is Better
Intel i965 Mesa DRI . 288 |====================================================


OpenArena 0.8.5
Resolution: 1920 x 1080
Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better
Intel i965 Mesa DRI . 200.57 |=================================================
ILO Gallium3D ....... 130.50 |================================


OpenArena 0.8.8
Resolution: 1920 x 1080
Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better
Intel i965 Mesa DRI . 38.43 |==================================================
ILO Gallium3D ....... 32.33 |==========================================


OpenArena 0.8.8
Resolution: 1920 x 1080 - Total Frame Time
Milliseconds < Lower Is Better
Intel i965 Mesa DRI . MIN: 2  AVG: 26   MAX: 60 
ILO Gallium3D ....... MIN: 1  AVG: 29   MAX: 99 


Reaction Quake 3 1.0 Beta
Resolution: 1920 x 1080
Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better
Intel i965 Mesa DRI . 111.63 |=================================================
ILO Gallium3D ....... 49.63  |======================


Reaction Quake 3 1.0 Beta
Resolution: 1920 x 1080 - Total Frame Time
Milliseconds < Lower Is Better
Intel i965 Mesa DRI . MIN: 2.0   AVG: 9.0   MAX: 22.0 
ILO Gallium3D ....... MIN: 13.0  AVG: 19.8  MAX: 28.0 


Unvanquished Alpha 17
Resolution: 1920 x 1080
Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better
Intel i965 Mesa DRI . 24.97 |==================================================
ILO Gallium3D ....... 10.07 |====================


Unvanquished Alpha 17
Resolution: 1920 x 1080 - Total Frame Time
Milliseconds < Lower Is Better
Intel i965 Mesa DRI . MIN: 26  AVG: 40   MAX: 71 
ILO Gallium3D ....... MIN: 25  AVG: 67   MAX: 99 


Warsow 1.0
Resolution: 1920 x 1080
Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better
Intel i965 Mesa DRI . 56.87 |==================================================
ILO Gallium3D ....... 40.67 |====================================


Xonotic 0.7
Resolution: 1920 x 1080 - Effects Quality: Low
Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better
Intel i965 Mesa DRI . 182.34 |=================================================
ILO Gallium3D ....... 113.29 |==============================


Xonotic 0.7
Resolution: 1920 x 1080 - Effects Quality: High
Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better
Intel i965 Mesa DRI . 77.90 |==================================================
ILO Gallium3D ....... 44.06 |============================


Xonotic 0.7
Resolution: 1920 x 1080 - Effects Quality: Ultra
Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better
Intel i965 Mesa DRI . 45.94 |==================================================
ILO Gallium3D ....... 31.83 |===================================


Xonotic 0.7
Resolution: 1920 x 1080 - Effects Quality: Ultimate
Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better
Intel i965 Mesa DRI . 28.84 |==================================================