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Mali-G57 vs Mali-G57

On Mali-G57 (Anbernic RG556, Motorola moto g35 5G, Redmi A5, TECNO KL4). The first driver named is compared against the second, which is the baseline.

StockMali-G57v1.r49p1-04eac0.1a8f966a209e5d83e4361469c96196b3

CustomMali-G57v1.r40p0-01eac0.b0251c048237dcd59e6be15fba11a31a

Graphics system version (Vulkan)1.3.278 to 1.3.225

Optional features (extensions)121 to 97+0 -24

Features that pass their check (validated)53 to 420 pass only on Mali-G57 11 pass only on Mali-G57

Speed test scenes (benchmark)2 faster 3 slower30% 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_nbody30% faster
hdr_2160p53% slower
oit_linked_lists71% slower
pipeline_barriers28% slower
subpasses28% faster

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 1 scene (pipeline_barriers: 1466 of 2304 cells). The picture matches overall, so this is a local rendering fault, not a different scene.

Mali-G57 details Mali-G57 details

Feature checks that differ (21)

Feature	Stock	Mali-G57	Change
extendedDynamicState VK_EXT_extended_dynamic_state	pass	fail	lost
extendedDynamicState3DepthClampEnable VK_EXT_extended_dynamic_state3	pass	unsupported	lost
vertexInputDynamicState VK_EXT_vertex_input_dynamic_state	pass	unsupported	lost
shaderBufferInt64Atomics VK_KHR_shader_atomic_int64	pass	unsupported	lost
timelineSemaphore VK_KHR_timeline_semaphore	pass	fail	lost
depthClamp VkPhysicalDeviceFeatures	pass	untested	lost
largePoints VkPhysicalDeviceFeatures	pass	untested	lost
compat.helper_loop_terminator core	pass	fail	lost
push.max_combined_image_samplers core	pass	unsupported	lost
push.max_uniform_buffers core	pass	unsupported	lost
stress.submit_memory core	pass	inconclusive	lost
extendedDynamicState3DepthClipEnable VK_EXT_extended_dynamic_state3	untested	unsupported	changed
extendedDynamicState3LineRasterizationMode VK_EXT_extended_dynamic_state3	untested	unsupported	changed
extendedDynamicState3ProvokingVertexMode VK_EXT_extended_dynamic_state3	untested	unsupported	changed
extendedDynamicState3SampleMask VK_EXT_extended_dynamic_state3	untested	unsupported	changed
extendedDynamicState3TessellationDomainOrigin VK_EXT_extended_dynamic_state3	untested	unsupported	changed
shaderSharedInt64Atomics VK_KHR_shader_atomic_int64	untested	unsupported	changed
dualSrcBlend VkPhysicalDeviceFeatures	untested	unsupported	changed
logicOp VkPhysicalDeviceFeatures	untested	unsupported	changed
wideLines VkPhysicalDeviceFeatures	untested	unsupported	changed
stress.scratch_per_batch core	unsupported	untested	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	37.01 typical 36.36	28.52 typical 28.19	30% faster	3 of 3 vs 3 of 3	? vs ? clock unknown	no large difference 0.0 no small difference worst 0.0 64x36
hdr_2160p	107.99 typical 107.40	230.27 typical 225.41	53% slower	3 of 3 vs ?	? vs ? clock unknown	not checked
oit_linked_lists	42.86 typical 42.80	145.73 typical 143.17	71% slower	3 of 3 vs 3 of 3	? vs ? clock unknown	no large difference 0.0 no small difference worst 0.0 64x36
pipeline_barriers	22.44 typical 3.41	31.05 typical 9.01	28% slower	3 of 3 vs 3 of 3	? vs ? clock unknown	no large difference 8.6 differs in 1466 small areas worst 81.0 64x36
subpasses	62.67 typical 4.34	49.14 typical 75.98	28% faster	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-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 (0)

None

Extensions only in Mali-G57 (24)

VK_ARM_shader_core_builtins
VK_ARM_shader_core_properties
VK_EXT_debug_marker
VK_EXT_depth_clamp_zero_one
VK_EXT_depth_clip_enable
VK_EXT_device_address_binding_report
VK_EXT_device_fault
VK_EXT_dynamic_rendering_unused_attachments
VK_EXT_extended_dynamic_state3
VK_EXT_external_memory_acquire_unmodified
VK_EXT_frame_boundary
VK_EXT_image_2d_view_of_3d
VK_EXT_image_sliced_view_of_3d
VK_EXT_legacy_dithering
VK_EXT_pipeline_protected_access
VK_EXT_pipeline_robustness
VK_EXT_shader_image_atomic_int64
VK_EXT_shader_tile_image
VK_EXT_swapchain_maintenance1
VK_EXT_vertex_input_dynamic_state
VK_GOOGLE_decorate_string
VK_KHR_push_descriptor
VK_KHR_shader_atomic_int64
VK_KHR_shader_subgroup_uniform_control_flow

Core features that differ (2)

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

Limits that differ (9)

Limit	Stock	Mali-G57
maxUniformBufferRange	2147483648	65536
maxStorageBufferRange	2147483648	268435456
maxPerStageDescriptorUniformBuffers	500000	36
maxDescriptorSetUniformBuffers	500000	216
maxFragmentDualSrcAttachments	8	0
maxSamplerLodBias	126	255
maxInterpolationOffset	0.4375	0.5
lineWidthRange	1, 4095.94	1, 1
lineWidthGranularity	0.0625	0

Formats supported by only one driver (0 gained, 6 lost)

Only in Mali-G57:

None

Only in Mali-G57:

B10X6G10X6R10X6G10X6_422_UNORM_4PACK16
G10X6B10X6G10X6R10X6_422_UNORM_4PACK16
G10X6_B10X6R10X6_2PLANE_420_UNORM_3PACK16
G10X6_B10X6R10X6_2PLANE_422_UNORM_3PACK16
R64_SINT
R64_UINT