Intel Sandy Bridge Shines With Mesa 8.0

Written by Michael Larabel in Display Drivers on 18 January 2012 at 04:00 AM EST. Page 3 of 4. 7 Comments.

The VDrift racing game was also faster with Mesa 8.0. On average, this OpenGL racing game was 24% faster with Mesa 8.0. VDrift at 1600 x 900 is now over 30 FPS with the Intel Sandy Bridge graphics.

The Lightsmark OpenGL lighting benchmark was 16% faster on average with Mesa 8.0-devel.

OpenArena is easily playable with Intel Sandy Bridge graphics. Under Mesa 8.0-devel, the Core i5 2520M graphics were 11% faster on average.


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