11-Way Low-End & Older Open-Source GPU Linux Comparison

Written by Michael Larabel in Display Drivers on 26 February 2014 at 08:56 AM EST. Page 2 of 5. 16 Comments.

Testing for this interesting low-end / older graphics comparison happened from Xubuntu 14.04 x86_64 while upgrading to the Linux 3.14 Git kernel and Mesa 10.2.0-devel along with the latest Git DDX drivers as packaged in the xorg-edgers PPA.

Low-End Ubuntu Linux Graphics GPU Open-Source Tests

All benchmarking for this article was handled in a fully automated and repeatable fashion using the open-source Phoronix Test Suite software. If you wish to see how your own system compares to these 11 graphics adapters on Linux with open-source graphics drivers, fire up the Phoronix Test Suite on the Linux distribution of your choice and then simply run phoronix-test-suite benchmark 1402254-PL-COMPARE3627 for carrying out the test automation from downloading and setup to execution and result analysis.


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