Mesa 11.0.2 vs. Mesa 11.2-devel Benchmarks On Intel Skylake

For those currently running Ubuntu 15.10 or other similar Linux distributions powered off Mesa 11.0, here are some performance benchmarks comparing that release to the about-to-be-branched Mesa 11.2.

From an Intel Core i5 6600K system I conducted some benchmarks of Mesa 11.0.2 as available by default on Ubuntu 15.10 compared to Mesa 11.2-devel when enabling the Padoka PPA on the same installation with the exact same hardware.

Linux 4.5 was in use on this Ubuntu 15.10 installation, aside from that it's a rather stock Ubuntu 15.10 environment.

In some tests, the performance is actually lower.


However, in other tests the performance has certainly improved.


Team Fortress 2 is running slightly lower on this Intel Skylake setup with HD Graphics 530.

To see more of these benchmark results of Ubuntu 15.10 with Mesa 11.0 vs. Mesa 11.2-devel Git from a PPA, see this OpenBenchmarking.org result file. Of course, consider upgrading on your own and be forewarned about possible regressions and other problems from running the Git code of open-source Linux graphics drivers.