Mesa 9.1 Results Are Mixed For Radeon Gallium3D

Written by Michael Larabel in Display Drivers on 6 February 2013 at 11:59 AM EST. Page 5 of 5. 36 Comments.

A look at the VDrift frame-rate performance in real-time doesn't reveal anything too exciting for tests in this case.

Xonotic is noticeably slower than earlier Mesa releases at resolutions above 800 x 600.

If you missed it, also check out the Radeon DRM GPU Driver Performance From Linux 3.4 to Linux 3.8, at least there are some nice performance improvements when upgrading to the soon-to-be-released Linux 3.8 kernel.

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