Radeon: Mesa 10.1 vs. Mesa Git On Ubuntu 14.04

Written by Michael Larabel in Display Drivers on 7 May 2014 at 01:00 AM EDT. Page 5 of 5. 18 Comments.
Radeon Mesa 10.2 Benchmarks
Radeon Mesa 10.2 Benchmarks
Radeon Mesa 10.2 Benchmarks
Radeon Mesa 10.2 Benchmarks

Most of the performance changes to be found between Mesa 10.1 stable and the current Mesa Git code just past the 10.2 branching was around the HD 7850 graphics card that uses the RadeonSI Gallium3D driver while the other three graphics cards used the R600g driver. With R600g and our assortment of Linux gaming and OpenGL benchmark tests run, we didn't see any better performance in the code beyond where it's at with Mesa 10.1.

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