Show Your Support: Did you know that the hundreds of articles written on Phoronix each month are mostly authored by one individual? Phoronix.com doesn't have a whole news room with unlimited resources and relies upon people reading our content without blocking ads and alternatively by people subscribing to Phoronix Premium for our ad-free service with other extra features.

XMir Performance Measured On Ubuntu 13.10

Canonical uses the Phoronix Test Suite in their Mir testing, so for this article I also used some tests they are likely not running, e.g. SuperTuxKart.

Some OpenGL Linux games take a larger hit than others.

The performance impact of Intel Haswell graphics with using XMir / Unity-System-Compositor on Ubuntu 13.10 is rather minor.