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Mali-G57 vs Mali-G57

On Mali-G57 (Anbernic RG556, Redmi A5, TECNO KL4). The first driver named is compared against the second, which is the baseline.

StockMali-G57v1.r41p0-01eac0.018fc629603b7a70cc68d32f78ac8686

CustomMali-G57v1.r40p0-01eac0.b0251c048237dcd59e6be15fba11a31a

Graphics system version (Vulkan)1.3.225 to 1.3.225

Optional features (extensions)99 to 97+1 -3

Features that pass their check (validated)31 to 290 pass only on Mali-G57 2 pass only on Mali-G57

Speed test scenes (benchmark)no shared scenes

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

Mali-G57 details Mali-G57 details

Feature checks that differ (3)

Feature	Stock	Mali-G57	Change
shaderBufferInt64Atomics VK_KHR_shader_atomic_int64	pass	unsupported	lost
stress.submit_memory core	pass	inconclusive	lost
shaderSharedInt64Atomics VK_KHR_shader_atomic_int64	untested	unsupported	changed

Speed test scenes (benchmark)

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-G57 ms	Difference	Starts	GPU clock, MHz	Picture vs stock
compute_nbody	n/a	28.48 typical 28.16	only one side	1 of 3 vs 3 of 3	? vs ? clock unknown	no large difference 0.0 no small difference worst 0.0 64x36
oit_linked_lists	n/a	n/a	only one side	2 of 3 vs 3 of 3	? vs ? clock unknown	no large difference 0.0 no small difference worst 0.0 64x36
pipeline_barriers	n/a	32.14 typical 10.32	only one side	1 of 3 vs 3 of 3	? vs ? clock unknown	not checked
subpasses	n/a	48.91 typical 7.81	only one side	1 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-G57 against Mali-G57. "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-G57 (1)

VK_EXT_hdr_metadata

Extensions only in Mali-G57 (3)

VK_EXT_shader_image_atomic_int64
VK_EXT_swapchain_maintenance1
VK_KHR_shader_atomic_int64

Core features that differ (2)

shaderBufferInt64Atomics Vulkan 1.2	pass to unsupported
shaderSharedInt64Atomics Vulkan 1.2	pass to unsupported

Limits that differ (0)

Limit	Stock	Mali-G57

Formats supported by only one driver (0 gained, 2 lost)

Only in Mali-G57:

None

Only in Mali-G57:

R64_SINT
R64_UINT