Mesa 10.5-devel Brings Some Intel Haswell HD Graphics Changes Over Mesa 10.3

Written by Michael Larabel in Display Drivers on 24 November 2014 at 12:15 PM EST. Page 4 of 4. 10 Comments.

Xonotic with higher image quality settings was still leading to slightly higher results.

There was a very noticeable performance improvement with GpuTest's Furmark benchmark using Mesa 10.5-devel.

The simple triangle OpenGL test inside GpuTest was multiple times faster using Mesa 10.5-devel over Mesa 10.3 while sticking with the Linux 3.18 kernel.

There's numerous performance changes to find for the HD Graphics 4600 on a Core i7 Haswell CPU, but unfortunately not all of the OpenGL performance changes are an improvement. In a number of tests, the Mesa Git results were lower than using Mesa 10.3.0 stable on Ubuntu 14.10.

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