July 2011 Open-Source Graphics Driver Comparison

When running Nexuiz at 1920 x 1080 across the assortment of hardware, the Core i5 2500K was twice as fast as the GeForce 8400GS but slightly slower than the GeForce 9500GT. Of course, if the NVIDIA binary driver was loaded instead, both graphics cards would likely be much faster than the Intel SNB graphics. In terms of the Intel HD 3000 graphics against the Radeon hardware, it was slightly faster than the Radeon HD 4550 and much faster than the Radeon HD 5450 running at a snail's pace. The Radeon HD 4670 on the R600g driver had outperformed the GeForce 9500GT with Nouveau Gallium3D.

The GeForce 9500GT had a surprisingly strong lead over the competition when it came to running OpenArena, which may be due in part to the Nouveau driver not dealing with waiting for swap buffers and the other "features" of the Radeon driver. The Intel SNB performance with SNA was in line with the Radeon HD 4550 and just short of the Radeon HD 4670.