Radeon Gallium3D MSAA Mesa 10.1 Git Benchmarks

The use of MSAA for the Prey first person shooter led to a 20 FPS drop when going to just two MSAA samples (-16%) and a drop of another 22 FPS when going from 4x MSAA to 6x MSAA (-21%).

The Xonotic performance took the biggest hit for the tested Radeon HD 6950 when simply enabling multi-sample anti-aliasing but didn't seem to lose too many frames per second as the numbers of samples were increased.

Give MSAA a shot on your system with Radeon Gallium3D graphics by setting the __GL_FSAA_MODE or GALLIUM_MSAA environment variables. You can compare your own system's performance against these open-source AMD MSAA results by installing the Phoronix Test Suite and running phoronix-test-suite benchmark 1312029-SO-RADEONGAL12.