Intel Mesa 17.0 Testing Plus 17.1-dev OpenGL and Vulkan Intel Core i7 7700K testing from Mesa 12.0.6, Mesa 13.0.4, Mesa 17.0.0, and Mesa 17.1-dev. Benchmarks by Michael Larabel for a future article. Mesa 12.0.6: Processor: Intel Core i7-7700K @ 4.60GHz (8 Cores), Motherboard: MSI Z270-A PRO (MS-7A71) v1.0, Chipset: Intel Device 591f, Memory: 15360MB, Disk: Samsung SSD 950 PRO 256GB, Graphics: Intel Kabylake GT2 3072MB (1150MHz), Audio: Realtek ALC892, Monitor: Acer B286HK, Network: Realtek RTL8111/8168/8411 OS: Ubuntu 16.10, Kernel: 4.10.0-999-generic (x86_64) 20170205, Desktop: Unity 7.5.0, Display Server: X Server 1.18.4, Display Driver: modesetting 1.18.4, OpenGL: 4.3 Mesa 12.0.6 (git-13953f0), Vulkan: 1.0.21, Compiler: GCC 6.2.0 20161005 + LLVM 3.8.1, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 1920x1080 Mesa 13.0.4: Processor: Intel Core i7-7700K @ 4.60GHz (8 Cores), Motherboard: MSI Z270-A PRO (MS-7A71) v1.0, Chipset: Intel Device 591f, Memory: 15360MB, Disk: Samsung SSD 950 PRO 256GB, Graphics: Intel Kabylake GT2 3072MB (1150MHz), Audio: Realtek ALC892, Monitor: Acer B286HK, Network: Realtek RTL8111/8168/8411 OS: Ubuntu 16.10, Kernel: 4.10.0-999-generic (x86_64) 20170205, Desktop: Unity 7.5.0, Display Server: X Server 1.18.4, Display Driver: modesetting 1.18.4, OpenGL: 4.5 Mesa 13.0.4 (git-6bfc352), Vulkan: 1.0.21, Compiler: GCC 6.2.0 20161005 + LLVM 3.8.1, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 1920x1080 Mesa 17.0.0-rc3: Processor: Intel Core i7-7700K @ 4.60GHz (8 Cores), Motherboard: MSI Z270-A PRO (MS-7A71) v1.0, Chipset: Intel Device 591f, Memory: 15360MB, Disk: Samsung SSD 950 PRO 256GB, Graphics: Intel Kabylake GT2 3072MB (1150MHz), Audio: Realtek ALC892, Monitor: Acer B286HK, Network: Realtek RTL8111/8168/8411 OS: Ubuntu 16.10, Kernel: 4.10.0-999-generic (x86_64) 20170205, Desktop: Unity 7.5.0, Display Server: X Server 1.18.4, Display Driver: modesetting 1.18.4, OpenGL: 4.5 Mesa 17.0.0-rc3 (git-07571cd8), Vulkan: 1.0.21, Compiler: GCC 6.2.0 20161005 + LLVM 3.8.1, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 1920x1080 Mesa 17.1-dev git-30cf9ff: Processor: Intel Core i7-7700K @ 4.60GHz (8 Cores), Motherboard: MSI Z270-A PRO (MS-7A71) v1.0, Chipset: Intel Device 591f, Memory: 15360MB, Disk: Samsung SSD 950 PRO 256GB, Graphics: Intel Kabylake GT2 3072MB (1150MHz), Audio: Realtek ALC892, Monitor: Acer B286HK, Network: Realtek RTL8111/8168/8411 OS: Ubuntu 16.10, Kernel: 4.10.0-999-generic (x86_64) 20170205, Desktop: Unity 7.5.0, Display Server: X Server 1.18.4, Display Driver: modesetting 1.18.4, OpenGL: 4.5 Mesa 17.1.0-devel (git-30cf9ff), Vulkan: 1.0.21, Compiler: GCC 6.2.0 20161005 + LLVM 3.8.1, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 1920x1080 BioShock Infinite Resolution: 1920 x 1080 - Effects Quality: Low Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better Mesa 12.0.6 ............... 38.95 |============================================ Mesa 13.0.4 ............... 39.07 |============================================ Mesa 17.0.0-rc3 ........... 38.95 |============================================ Mesa 17.1-dev git-30cf9ff . 38.95 |============================================ ET: Legacy 2.75 Renderer: Renderer2 - Resolution: 1920 x 1080 Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better Mesa 12.0.6 ............... 101.17 |=========================================== Mesa 13.0.4 ............... 101.10 |=========================================== Mesa 17.0.0-rc3 ........... 101.23 |=========================================== Mesa 17.1-dev git-30cf9ff . 101.13 |=========================================== OpenArena 0.8.8 Resolution: 1920 x 1080 Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better Mesa 12.0.6 ............... 78.17 |=========================================== Mesa 13.0.4 ............... 78.13 |=========================================== Mesa 17.0.0-rc3 ........... 78.87 |============================================ Mesa 17.1-dev git-30cf9ff . 79.17 |============================================ OpenArena 0.8.8 Resolution: 1920 x 1080 - Total Frame Time Milliseconds < Lower Is Better Mesa 12.0.6 ............... MIN: 2.0 AVG: 12.8 MAX: 29.0 Mesa 13.0.4 ............... MIN: 3.0 AVG: 12.8 MAX: 39.0 Mesa 17.0.0-rc3 ........... MIN: 4.0 AVG: 12.6 MAX: 27.0 Mesa 17.1-dev git-30cf9ff . MIN: 3.0 AVG: 12.6 MAX: 40.0 Portal Resolution: 1920 x 1080 Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better Mesa 12.0.6 ............... 127.75 |=========================================== Mesa 13.0.4 ............... 127.68 |=========================================== Mesa 17.0.0-rc3 ........... 127.80 |=========================================== Mesa 17.1-dev git-30cf9ff . 127.61 |=========================================== Tesseract 2014-05-12 Resolution: 1920 x 1080 Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better Mesa 12.0.6 ............... 65.14 |========================================== Mesa 13.0.4 ............... 65.72 |========================================== Mesa 17.0.0-rc3 ........... 67.69 |============================================ Mesa 17.1-dev git-30cf9ff . 68.32 |============================================ Team Fortress 2 Resolution: 1920 x 1080 Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better Mesa 12.0.6 ............... 71.57 |============================================ Mesa 13.0.4 ............... 71.66 |============================================ Mesa 17.0.0-rc3 ........... 71.52 |============================================ Mesa 17.1-dev git-30cf9ff . 71.65 |============================================ Xonotic 0.8 Resolution: 1920 x 1080 - Effects Quality: Ultra Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better Mesa 12.0.6 ............... 106.93 |========================================= Mesa 13.0.4 ............... 106.88 |========================================= Mesa 17.0.0-rc3 ........... 110.89 |=========================================== Mesa 17.1-dev git-30cf9ff . 110.90 |=========================================== Xonotic 0.8 Resolution: 1920 x 1080 - Effects Quality: Ultimate Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better Mesa 12.0.6 ............... 77.31 |=========================================== Mesa 13.0.4 ............... 77.17 |=========================================== Mesa 17.0.0-rc3 ........... 79.68 |============================================ Mesa 17.1-dev git-30cf9ff . 79.74 |============================================ GpuTest 0.7.0 Test: Furmark - Resolution: 1920 x 1080 - Mode: Fullscreen Points > Higher Is Better Mesa 12.0.6 ............... 715 |============================================= Mesa 13.0.4 ............... 732 |============================================== Mesa 17.0.0-rc3 ........... 731 |============================================== Mesa 17.1-dev git-30cf9ff . 730 |============================================== GpuTest 0.7.0 Test: Triangle - Resolution: 1920 x 1080 - Mode: Fullscreen Points > Higher Is Better Mesa 12.0.6 ............... 40818 |=========================================== Mesa 13.0.4 ............... 41117 |=========================================== Mesa 17.0.0-rc3 ........... 41480 |============================================ Mesa 17.1-dev git-30cf9ff . 41607 |============================================ Dota 2 Resolution: 1024 x 768 - Renderer: OpenGL Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better Mesa 12.0.6 ............... 37.17 |======================================= Mesa 13.0.4 ............... 38.13 |======================================== Mesa 17.0.0-rc3 ........... 41.57 |============================================ Mesa 17.1-dev git-30cf9ff . 41.53 |============================================ Dota 2 Resolution: 1024 x 768 - Renderer: Vulkan Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better Mesa 13.0.4 ............... 41.83 |=================================== Mesa 17.0.0-rc3 ........... 51.87 |=========================================== Mesa 17.1-dev git-30cf9ff . 53.27 |============================================ Dota 2 Resolution: 1920 x 1080 - Renderer: OpenGL Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better Mesa 12.0.6 ............... 19.43 |====================================== Mesa 13.0.4 ............... 19.93 |======================================= Mesa 17.0.0-rc3 ........... 22.33 |============================================ Mesa 17.1-dev git-30cf9ff . 22.23 |============================================ Dota 2 Resolution: 1920 x 1080 - Renderer: Vulkan Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better Mesa 13.0.4 ............... 18.20 |=============================== Mesa 17.0.0-rc3 ........... 24.87 |=========================================== Mesa 17.1-dev git-30cf9ff . 25.43 |============================================ The Talos Principle Renderer: OpenGL - Resolution: 1920 x 1080 Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better Mesa 12.0.6 ............... 12.23 |============================================ Mesa 13.0.4 ............... 12.07 |=========================================== Mesa 17.0.0-rc3 ........... 11.87 |=========================================== Mesa 17.1-dev git-30cf9ff . 11.93 |=========================================== The Talos Principle Renderer: Vulkan - Resolution: 1920 x 1080 Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better Mesa 12.0.6 ............... 6.20 |=================================== Mesa 17.0.0-rc3 ........... 7.67 |=========================================== Mesa 17.1-dev git-30cf9ff . 7.97 |=============================================