Mesa 9.1 Results Are Mixed For Radeon Gallium3D

[Veerappan]

The 4650 is an older mid-range card, and not "ancient and weak" by any means. Radeon X300 = ancient and weak.

But still usable. My father-in-law is using my old Inspiron 6000 with a x300, and my parents were using an x600 in their desktop until a few weeks ago when the motherboard took a dump.

And I agree that a 4650 is still perfectly usable. My work desktop has a core i7-2600k with 8GB RAM coupled with a radeon 5400, which is weaker than the 4650.

[DanL]

The 4650 is an older mid-range card, and not "ancient and weak" by any means. Radeon X300 = ancient and weak.

[neatnoise]

You see, 4650 is both ancient and weak. How about benchmarking something more interesting like HD5000/6000 GPUs? Unfortunately, for some obscure reasons, most of phoronix benchmarks for Radeon are done on such an ancient GPU. You see, these days you can't buy HD4000 GPU in unused condition anyway.

Open source graphics drivers benchmarks for older series Radeon HD 4000, 3000, 2000 and even older are necessary. There are no alternative drivers for these cards after amd has dropped support.

[curaga]

High-end cpu + low-end gpu is my setup exactly

[ua=42]

Hmm. I bet the reason why he uses a high end CPU when testing graphics cards is so that there won't be weird performance drops because of the cpu being under-powered.

[0xBADCODE]

Oh, what about more recent and powerful GPUs?

You see, 4650 is both ancient and weak. How about benchmarking something more interesting like HD5000/6000 GPUs? Unfortunately, for some obscure reasons, most of phoronix benchmarks for Radeon are done on such an ancient GPU. You see, these days you can't buy HD4000 GPU in unused condition anyway.

Furthermore, core i7 + 4650? Oh, that's a really decent example of very unbalanced system. Hi-end modern CPU + Low-end and outdated GPU? Really strange scenario.

[phoronix]

Phoronix: Mesa 9.1 Results Are Mixed For Radeon Gallium3D

After last week delivering benchmarks that showed Intel graphics being faster with Mesa 9.1 relative to earlier Mesa 3D releases, up today are benchmarks of Radeon Gallium3D (R600g) to compare the Mesa 9.1 performance to Mesa 9.0.2, 8.0.5, and 7.11.2.

http://www.phoronix.com/vr.php?view=18445