Experimental Patches For Using SIMD32 Fragment Shaders With Intel's Linux Driver

[phoronix]

Phoronix: Experimental Patches For Using SIMD32 Fragment Shaders With Intel's Linux Driver

Existing Intel graphics hardware already supports SIMD32 fragment shaders and the Intel open-source Linux graphics driver has supported this mode for months, but it hasn't been enabled. That though is in the process of changing...

http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Intel-SIMD32-FS-Linux-Mesa-RFC

[tildearrow]

Typo:

where peformance is up

[coder]

This is pretty impressive. I figured the feature was simply aimed at providing forward-compatibility with GPUs having wider SIMD units (current UHD Graphics GPUs have 4-wide SIMD). I wouldn't have expected such benefits in current-gen products.