Benchmarks Of The Open-Source Intel/AMD/NVIDIA Drivers, 11 Years On

Written by Michael Larabel in Display Drivers on 5 June 2015 at 10:50 AM EDT. Page 3 of 5. 9 Comments.
Ubuntu 15.04 Open-Source Graphics

SuperTuxKart 0.9 failed to run with the Nouveau NVC0 Gallium3D driver. The Radeon HD 6570 also was unable to handle this recently-updated open-source game. With the higher-end R600g and RadeonSI hardware, the game was easily playable at 1080p but that wasn't the case for Intel Haswell HD Graphics.

Ubuntu 15.04 Open-Source Graphics

The NVIDIA results remain obviously out of whack due to the re-clocking situation. As a reminder, the GeForce GTX 650 could reach its highest performance state while the other tested GPUs were generally running around their low-to-mid performance state. There also isn't working re-clocking for the Maxwell GTX 750 series.

Ubuntu 15.04 Open-Source Graphics

Xonotic with high image quality settings yields playable frame-rates for all of the tested hardware on Mesa 10.7.


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