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 2 of 5. 36 Comments.
Similar to the Intel results, there weren't much in the way of performance changes when comparing the Doom 3 (id Tech 4 engine) game across Mesa releases. The Radeon HD 4650 on the Mesa releases from 7.11.2 to 9.1-devel were running at the same speed at the spectrum of resolutions tested from 800 x 600 to 1920 x 1080.
The Nexuiz performance was the slowest on Mesa 9.1, not the fastest. This is likely due to the Radeon Gallium3D driver now supporting anti-aliasing, which looks to be introducing a major bottleneck.
For OpenArena at 1920 x 1080, Mesa 9.1 fell behind Mesa 7.11.2 but at the lower resolutions tested the new Mesa version was in relative good standing for R600g.