Looking At GNU/Linux's Performance Over 2016 With Intel's Clear Linux

Written by Michael Larabel in Operating Systems on 14 December 2016 at 09:42 AM EST. Page 2 of 5. 17 Comments.
Clear Linux Begin To End 2016

While the Haswell Linux graphics support has been rather mature for some time and most Intel OTC developers focusing on Skylake and newer, there were some gains to see in some of these OpenGL tests.

Clear Linux Begin To End 2016

Sadly at the end of 2016, Intel Haswell remains at OpenGL 3.3 as the FP64 patches as the last GL 4.0 blocker haven't yet been merged to mainline Mesa.

Clear Linux Begin To End 2016
Clear Linux Begin To End 2016
Clear Linux Begin To End 2016

Xonotic saw faster performance as a result of the kernel and Mesa advancements in 2016.

Clear Linux Begin To End 2016
Clear Linux Begin To End 2016
Clear Linux Begin To End 2016
Clear Linux Begin To End 2016

GpuTest synthetic OpenGL benchmark results varied from being the same to faster with the newest Clear Linux.


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