Xonotic 0.8 Performance With The Open-Source AMD/NVIDIA Gallium3D Drivers

Xonotic with ultra image quality settings were delivering 60+ FPS averages on the NVIDIA side with the GeForce GTX 650/680/760/780. The Fermi-based GTX 550 Ti and GTX 460 should be able to play Xonotic with these settings, but due to the current lack of Nouveau re-clocking support it was too slow on the open-source driver. On the open-source AMD side, with the exception of the Radeon HD 6450 it was a very playable experience for this leading open-source game.

Ultimate image quality settings for Xonotic knocked the HD 6870 to just above a 60 FPS average while the newer AMD Radeon GPUs on Mesa 10.5 + LLVM 3.6 + Linux 3.19 were able to play this open-source first person shooter game with ease. On the Nouveau side, the GTX 680/760/780 were floating just above 60 frames per second.

Again, with the Phoronix Test Suite you can check your system's own performance by running phoronix-test-suite benchmark xonotic or phoronix-test-suite benchmark 1501188-DE-XONOTIC0819 to compare your system's own performance side-by-side to the results about to be shown.