Ubuntu 14.10 XMir System Compositor Benchmarks

Written by Michael Larabel in Operating Systems on 23 October 2014 at 12:00 AM EDT. Page 3 of 3. 3 Comments.
Ubuntu 14.10 XMir
Ubuntu 14.10 XMir

Moving over to the OpenGL benchmarks, with OpenArena there's a small dip in performance when running with the non-default XMir stack.

Ubuntu 14.10 XMir

The Tesseract performance is down by about 5% with the new graphics stack when running with XMir for non-Mir-compliant games/applications.

Ubuntu 14.10 XMir
Ubuntu 14.10 XMir

When running Xonotic was also indicating around a small but measurable performance penalty in having to go through the XMir stack.

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