[ Thanks to Michael Larabel for
this link. ]
“Two months ago we published our initial benchmarks of
LLVMpipe, the Gallium3D driver that accelerated commands on the CPU
rather than any GPU and unlike other Linux software rasterizers is
much faster due to leveraging LLVM (the Low-Level Virtual Machine)
on the back-end. Since then we have published new ATI Gallium3D
driver benchmarks and yesterday put out Nouveau Gallium3D driver
benchmarks, so today we are providing updated LLVMpipe driver
results to show how well Gallium3D’s LLVMpipe driver can accelerate
your OpenGL games with a modern processor.“This round of LLVMpipe testing was done on the same system and
software stack as yesterday’s Nouveau Gallium3D results. This
system consisted of an Intel Core i7 920 CPU (quad-core plus Hyper
Threading) clocked at 3.60GHz, an ASRock X58 SuperComputer
motherboard, 3GB of system memory, and a 320GB Seagate ST3320620AS
SATA HDD. The software stack was an Ubuntu 10.10 daily snapshot
with the Linux 2.6.35-5-generic (x86_64) kernel, GNOME 2.30.2
desktop, X.Org Server 1.8.2 RC2, Mesa 7.9-devel, LLVM 2.7, and an
EXT4 file-system. For comparing the LLVMpipe numbers we have the
Nouveau test results again for the GeForce 8500GT and GeForce
8800GT and we also tested a GeForce 8400GS atop Gallium 0.4 too as
a lower-end NVIDIA graphics card for more comparable numbers to
LLVMpipe.”