Intel Core Ultra "Meteor Lake" Yields Faster Performance With Linux 6.9

Written by Michael Larabel in Software on 28 March 2024 at 11:10 AM EDT. Page 2 of 5. 4 Comments.
Selenium benchmark with settings of Benchmark: Jetstream 2, Browser: Firefox. Linux 6.9 27 Mar was the fastest.

Right away when firing up benchmarks on Linux 6.9 Git, there was a subtle boost in web browser performance noted.

Selenium benchmark with settings of Benchmark: Jetstream 2, Browser: Firefox. Linux 6.9 27 Mar was the fastest.

While running at similar CPU SoC power levels to Linux 6.8.

Selenium benchmark with settings of Benchmark: PSPDFKit WASM, Browser: Firefox. Linux 6.9 27 Mar was the fastest.
Selenium benchmark with settings of Benchmark: WASM collisionDetection, Browser: Firefox. Linux 6.9 27 Mar was the fastest.
Selenium benchmark with settings of Benchmark: WASM imageConvolute, Browser: Firefox. Linux 6.9 27 Mar was the fastest.
Selenium benchmark with settings of Benchmark: Kraken, Browser: Firefox. Linux 6.9 27 Mar was the fastest.
Selenium benchmark with settings of Benchmark: SilverBench, Browser: Firefox. Linux 6.9 27 Mar was the fastest.

Across various web browser tests carried out on Mozilla Firefox 124.0 from JavaScript to WebAssembly, Linux 6.9 was delivering slightly better performance than Linux 6.8.

Darktable benchmark with settings of Test: Boat, Acceleration: CPU-only. Linux 6.9 27 Mar was the fastest.
Darktable benchmark with settings of Test: Server Room, Acceleration: CPU-only. Linux 6.9 27 Mar was the fastest.
RawTherapee benchmark with settings of Total Benchmark Time. Linux 6.9 27 Mar was the fastest.

In other creator workloads like the Darktable and RawTherapee RAW photography software, Linux 6.9 was allowing for slightly better performance than Linux 6.8. Presumably this is due to the Intel P-State driver tuning for Meteor Lake but other Linux 6.9 optimizations at large may be helping some of these workloads.


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