Debian 7 Through Debian Testing Benchmarks With/Without Mitigations
The Radeon HD 5450 gaming tests worked out fine going back to Debian 8. The performance has improved nicely each step of the way thanks to the newer Linux kernel and Mesa.
Some of the OpenGL GpuTest metrics have improved nicely since Debian 10.
The NAS Parallel Benchmarks worked going back to just Debian 9 but is showing some nice improvements out of Debian 10 and Debian Testing.
Parboil's Stencil performance regressed on Debian 10 and later.
Meanwhile Parboil's MRI Gridding performance has been improving with the newer Debian releases.