Mesa 8.1 Will Offer Some Speed Improvements For Nouveau
Xonotic with low quality settings saw some slightly performance gains.
The Warsow game performance was largely unchanged.
From the four NVIDIA GeForce graphics cards benchmarked in this article, Mesa 8.1-devel is a definite improvement over the stable 8.0 series for many of the OpenGL workloads, but there were also a few regressions spotted.
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