Graphics system version (Vulkan)1.1.191 to 1.1.177
Optional features (extensions)73 to 65+0-8
Features that pass their check (validated)43 to 431 pass only on Mali-G52 MC21 pass only on Mali-G52
Speed test scenes (benchmark)1 faster4 slower12% slower overall (geometric mean)
Games each driver could run (an estimate from its feature list): green likely, yellow maybe, orange limited, red no
StockDX92002+DX102006+DX112009+DX122015+Switch
CustomDX92002+DX102006+DX112009+DX122015+Switch
compute_nbody23% slower
hdr_2160p5% slower
oit_linked_lists12% faster
pipeline_barriers18% slower
subpasses19% slower
Custom driver against stock, per scene. Bars to the right are faster, to the left slower.
Small areas of the picture differ from the stock driver in 2 scenes (compute_nbody: 36 of 2304 cells, pipeline_barriers: 1374 of 2304 cells). The picture matches overall, so this is a local rendering fault, not a different scene.
The two drivers were not measured on the same set of device models. Frame times from different devices do not compare drivers, so read these numbers with that in mind.
Scene
Stock ms
Mali-G52 MC2 ms
Difference
Starts
GPU clock, MHz
Picture vs stock
compute_nbody
62.01 typical 61.40
80.16 typical 78.88
23% slower
3 of 3 vs 3 of 3
? vs ? clock unknown
no large difference0.2differs in 36 small areasworst 8.364x36
hdr_2160p
163.54 typical 160.28
172.21 typical 172.21
5% slower
3 of 3 vs 3 of 3
? vs ? clock unknown
no large difference0.0no small differenceworst 0.064x36
oit_linked_lists
65.97 typical 64.56
59.15 typical 58.79
12% faster
3 of 3 vs 3 of 3
? vs ? clock unknown
no large difference0.0no small differenceworst 0.064x36
pipeline_barriers
46.05 typical 45.89
56.49 typical 57.16
18% slower
3 of 3 vs 3 of 3
? vs ? clock unknown
no large difference7.9differs in 1374 small areasworst 60.764x36
subpasses
90.08 typical 90.27
111.13 typical 111.48
19% slower
3 of 3 vs 3 of 3
? vs ? clock unknown
not checked
Time to draw one frame, per scene: the average (mean) frame time of the scene's best round, which is how many frames the driver delivered; lower is faster. "Typical" beside it is the median frame, which can sit well under the average when a driver's frames come in two speeds. A pair of reports made before per-round averages were recorded is compared on the median. A scene whose rounds disagree by more than 15% is left out. A scene marked "paced" was held at that mean frame time by the driver or the display queue, together with at least one other scene of the same run; its time says how the frames were spaced, not how fast the driver rendered, so it is not compared. A scene marked "too light" took under 8 ms at the standard size (1920 by 1080) on both drivers, where the screen's frame queue spaces the frames more than the chip does; its heavier run is the one compared: the row ending in _2160p is the scene drawn at 3840 by 2160, and compute_nbody_2x is that scene with twice the particles. "Faster" and "slower" describe Mali-G52 MC2 against Mali-G52. "Picture vs stock" compares one fixed frame per scene as a coarse colour grid (0 is identical, above 40 is a different picture); it finds a scene that was not drawn. Where both reports carry the finer 64x36 grid, the second figure is how many of its 2,304 cells differ by more than 4 of 255, and "worst" is the largest single cell; this is what finds a small rendering error in a picture that otherwise matches. A row marked 16x9 comes from a report made before the finer grid existed. "Starts" is how many of a scene's process starts reached a measured round. A GPU clock marked "not comparable" differed by more than 5% of the device's maximum between the two timings.
Technical differences (Vulkan)
Extensions only in Mali-G52 MC2 (0)
None
Extensions only in Mali-G52 (8)
VK_EXT_pipeline_creation_cache_control
VK_EXT_primitive_topology_list_restart
VK_EXT_rgba10x6_formats
VK_EXT_swapchain_maintenance1
VK_EXT_texel_buffer_alignment
VK_KHR_copy_commands2
VK_KHR_shader_integer_dot_product
VK_KHR_zero_initialize_workgroup_memory
Core features that differ (0)
None
Limits that differ (2)
Limit
Stock
Mali-G52 MC2
bufferImageGranularity
1
4096
timestampPeriod
38.4615
76.9231
Formats supported by only one driver (0 gained, 0 lost)