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Balemuni_Apex_v2_UNIVERSAL vs turnip_faux123_v1.1.7

On Adreno (TM) 840 (iQOO 15, LENOVO TB324ZC, nubia NX809J, OnePlus 15, POCO F8 Ultra, Samsung Galaxy S26, Samsung Galaxy S26, Samsung Galaxy S26 Ultra, Samsung Galaxy S26 Ultra, Samsung Galaxy S26 Ultra, Samsung Galaxy Z Fold8, Samsung Galaxy Z Fold8 Ultra, Xiaomi 2512BPNDAG). The first driver named is compared against the second, which is the baseline.

Stockturnip_faux123_v1.1.7Mesa 26.3.0-devel (git-dd45fd0baa)

CustomBalemuni_Apex_v2_UNIVERSALMesa 26.3.0-devel (Balemuni Apex Universal V2)

Graphics system version (Vulkan)1.4.359 to 1.4.359

Optional features (extensions)179 to 146+4 -37

Features that pass their check (validated)50 to 490 pass only on Balemuni_Apex_v2_UNIVERSAL 1 pass only on turnip_faux123_v1.1.7

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

turnip_faux123_v1.1.7 details Balemuni_Apex_v2_UNIVERSAL details

Feature checks that differ (1)

Feature	turnip_faux123_v1.1.7	Balemuni_Apex_v2_UNIVERSAL	Change
core.copy_wide_row_length core	pass	fail	lost

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	turnip_faux123_v1.1.7 ms	Balemuni_Apex_v2_UNIVERSAL ms	Difference	Starts	GPU clock, MHz	Picture vs stock
compute_nbody	n/a	n/a	only one side	3 of 3 vs ?	? vs ? clock unknown	not checked
compute_nbody_2x	9.19 typical 9.27	n/a	only one side	3 of 3 vs ?	? vs ? clock unknown	not checked
hdr_2160p	n/a	n/a	only one side	3 of 3 vs ?	? vs ? clock unknown	not checked
oit_linked_lists	n/a	n/a	only one side	3 of 3 vs ?	? vs ? clock unknown	not checked
pipeline_barriers	n/a	n/a	only one side	3 of 3 vs ?	? vs ? clock unknown	not checked
pipeline_barriers_2160p	n/a	n/a	only one side	3 of 3 vs ?	? vs ? clock unknown	not checked
subpasses	n/a	n/a	only one side	3 of 3 vs ?	? vs ? clock unknown	not checked
subpasses_2160p	n/a	n/a	only one side	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 Balemuni_Apex_v2_UNIVERSAL against turnip_faux123_v1.1.7. "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 Balemuni_Apex_v2_UNIVERSAL (4)

VK_EXT_fragment_density_map
VK_EXT_fragment_density_map_offset
VK_QCOM_fragment_density_map_offset
VK_VALVE_fragment_density_map_layered

Extensions only in turnip_faux123_v1.1.7 (37)

VK_EXT_present_mode_fifo_latest_ready
VK_EXT_present_timing
VK_KHR_acceleration_structure
VK_KHR_calibrated_timestamps
VK_KHR_compute_shader_derivatives
VK_KHR_deferred_host_operations
VK_KHR_dynamic_rendering
VK_KHR_dynamic_rendering_local_read
VK_KHR_format_feature_flags2
VK_KHR_fragment_shading_rate
VK_KHR_global_priority
VK_KHR_index_type_uint8
VK_KHR_line_rasterization
VK_KHR_load_store_op_none
VK_KHR_maintenance4
VK_KHR_maintenance5
VK_KHR_maintenance6
VK_KHR_maintenance7
VK_KHR_map_memory2
VK_KHR_pipeline_library
VK_KHR_present_id
VK_KHR_present_id2
VK_KHR_present_wait2
VK_KHR_ray_query
VK_KHR_ray_tracing_maintenance1
VK_KHR_shader_expect_assume
VK_KHR_shader_float_controls2
VK_KHR_shader_integer_dot_product
VK_KHR_shader_relaxed_extended_instruction
VK_KHR_shader_subgroup_rotate
VK_KHR_shader_subgroup_uniform_control_flow
VK_KHR_shader_terminate_invocation
VK_KHR_swapchain_maintenance1
VK_KHR_synchronization2
VK_KHR_vertex_attribute_divisor
VK_KHR_workgroup_memory_explicit_layout
VK_KHR_zero_initialize_workgroup_memory

Core features that differ (0)

None

Limits that differ (0)

Limit	turnip_faux123_v1.1.7	Balemuni_Apex_v2_UNIVERSAL

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

Only in Balemuni_Apex_v2_UNIVERSAL:

None

Only in turnip_faux123_v1.1.7:

None