AMD Gallium3D Performance Is Much Better Than Two Years Ago

The Nexuiz game performance on Mesa 9.1.6 / 9.2 / 9.3 is shown as lower than Mesa 9.0.3 and older releases, but that's because of the game utilizing anti-aliasing and AA becoming supported by Mesa in the 9.1 release, which leads to better visuals but at the cost of lower performance. With AA finally kicking in, the 9.2 performance is at least up almost 10% for the Mesa 9.2 release on the R600 Gallium3D driver.

Reaction is an open-source ioquake3 game that has always tended to struggle with the R600 Gallium3D OpenGL driver, but with Mesa 9.2 the performance is up around 80%, at least for the high-end RV790XT GPU we were using for today's Linux OpenGL benchmarks.

Since Mesa 9.2, the peak OpenGL frame latency is also at a low point as is the average frame latency.