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Mali-G720 MC7 vs Mali-G720 MC8

On Mali-G720 MC7 (POCO X7 Pro, POCO X8 Pro). The first driver named is compared against the second, which is the baseline.

StockMali-G720 MC8v1.r49p1-03bet0.4fc328bba6e40f10f4bc96d62f5ee40a

CustomMali-G720 MC7v1.r49p1-03bet0.4fc328bba6e40f10f4bc96d62f5ee40a

Graphics system version (Vulkan)1.3.278 to 1.3.278

Optional features (extensions)150 to 150+0 -0

Features that pass their check (validated)39 to 39both pass the same checks

Speed test scenes (benchmark)0 faster 5 slower18% 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_nbody7% slower
hdr_2160p24% slower
oit_linked_lists10% slower
pipeline_barriers_2160p24% slower
subpasses_2160p25% 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 1 scene (pipeline_barriers: 1659 of 2304 cells). The picture matches overall, so this is a local rendering fault, not a different scene.

Mali-G720 MC8 details Mali-G720 MC7 details

Feature checks that differ (0)

Every feature check ends the same way on both drivers.

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-G720 MC7 ms	Difference	Starts	GPU clock, MHz	Picture vs stock
compute_nbody	13.79 typical 13.66	14.77 typical 14.66	7% slower	3 of 3 vs 3 of 3	? vs ? clock unknown	no large difference 0.0 no small difference worst 0.0 64x36
hdr_2160p	13.85 typical 13.66	18.12 typical 18.03	24% slower	3 of 3 vs 3 of 3	? vs ? clock unknown	no large difference 0.0 no small difference worst 0.0 64x36
oit_linked_lists	19.18 typical 18.71	21.28 typical 20.68	10% 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	n/a	8.21	too light, see pipeline_barriers_2160p	3 of 3 vs 3 of 3	? vs ? clock unknown	no large difference 9.7 differs in 1659 small areas worst 53.7 64x36
pipeline_barriers_2160p	11.53 typical 11.52	15.14 typical 15.13	24% slower	3 of 3 vs ?	? vs ? clock unknown	not checked
subpasses	n/a	n/a	too light, see subpasses_2160p	3 of 3 vs 3 of 3	? vs ? clock unknown	not checked
subpasses_2160p	21.76 typical 21.78	28.90 typical 28.91	25% slower	3 of 3 vs ?	? 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-G720 MC7 against Mali-G720 MC8. "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-G720 MC7 (0)

None

Extensions only in Mali-G720 MC8 (0)

None

Core features that differ (0)

None

Limits that differ (0)

Limit	Stock	Mali-G720 MC7

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

Only in Mali-G720 MC7:

None

Only in Mali-G720 MC8:

None