Kaby Lake HD Graphics 630 Appear To Be Coming Up Short On Linux

Benchmarks of the Core i5 7600K were done with using the default P-State driver with powersave governor behavior, the same as all of the other Intel CPUs tested in this article. And then another run with CPUFreq performance, given the results of the earlier i5-7600K article, just for reference. Here with Team Fortress 2 we see regardless of the CPU governor, the i5-7600K Kaby Lake Linux OpenGL performance is still short of the i5-6600K Skylake on Linux.

With Dota 2, both results come up short of even the Core i5 6500 Skylake on Linux with Mesa 13.1-devel (just before the 17.0-devel renaming) and Linux 4.10 kernel... Again, all systems were using their maximum number of supported memory channels at maximum supported frequency by the CPU, no overclocking, etc. Something appears to be less than ideal currently for Kaby Lake on Linux.

The BioShock numbers come up well short of the older Skylake CPUs tested.