ATI X.Org, Mesa Performance In Ubuntu
Late last month we published system benchmarks of Ubuntu 7.04 through 8.10 and had found — at least with the Intel notebook we were using — that the performance had degraded with time. This article had then resulted in benchmarks of Fedora 7 through 10 and most recently were Mac OS X 10.5 vs. Ubuntu 8.10 benchmarks. In our original article we hadn’t focused much upon the graphics tests and we were just using ATI’s binary driver, but per a request from Canonical’s Bryce Harrington, we have carried out some open-source graphics tests on Ubuntu 7.04 through 8.10 and we started with the ATI performance.
We had used the 32-bit versions of Ubuntu 7.04, Ubuntu 7.10, Ubuntu 8.04, and Ubuntu 8.10 for testing. Our test system hardware for this article was made up of an Intel Core 2 Duo E6400, ASRock Conroe1333-DVI/H, 2GB of OCZ DDR2-800MHz memory, 200GB Seagate ST3200826AS HDD, and the graphics card was an R430-based ATI Radeon X800XL with 256MB of video memory.
