Early Intel i965 vs. Iris Gallium3D OpenGL Benchmarks On UHD Graphics 620 With Mesa 19.1

[phoronix]

Phoronix: Early Intel i965 vs. Iris Gallium3D OpenGL Benchmarks On UHD Graphics 620 With Mesa 19.1

With yesterday's somewhat of a surprise announcement that Intel is ready to mainline their experimental Iris Gallium3D driver as their "modern" Linux OpenGL driver with numerous design advantages over their long-standing "classic" i965 Mesa driver, here are some fresh benchmarks of that latest driver compared to the current state of their OpenGL driver in Mesa 19.1.

http://www.phoronix.com/vr.php?view=27562

[microcode]

Seems like Gallium (or maybe it's just Iris) has some issues with CPU load peaks.

[davidbepo]

thats not bad, specially given there are some important performance optimizations left

[R41N3R]

I expected it to be worse, so not bad at all :-)

[Kayden]

Plot3D being slower appears to be due to fast clears - if I disable them in i965, then iris is slightly faster. Those should be coming in the near future.

[boxie]

Seems like Gallium (or maybe it's just Iris) has some issues with CPU load peaks.

I am sure it currently just a naive approach to doing stuff to get things working. Given where the performance of i965 is and the size of the Intel's team we should be seeing a bunch of really fast improvements! Exciting!

[boxie]

Plot3D being slower appears to be due to fast clears - if I disable them in i965, then iris is slightly faster. Those should be coming in the near future.

Keep up the good work! I am sure that that everyone involved will be keeping Michael's laptop / benchmarking farm nice and warm over the next few months

[wizard69]

Surprisingly good this early in the release.

[geearf]

I am sure it currently just a naive approach to doing stuff to get things working. Given where the performance of i965 is and the size of the Intel's team we should be seeing a bunch of really fast improvements! Exciting!

And hopefully these improvements would not be only for Iris, but also for other Gallium3D drivers.

[Mateus Felipe]

Sorry about my ignorance, but is there difference in GPU and CPU generation? Because Broadwell is 5th and it's written "Gen 8 graphic". If this is the case, then my 6500U will be able to use Iris?