Trying Out & Benchmarking The New Experimental Intel Xe Linux Graphics Driver
It will be interesting to revisit this i915 vs. Xe kernel driver testing further into 2024 to see how Intel is able to better optimize the performance.
The Vulkan compute performance was also slightly faster with the i915 kernel driver.
So with Linux 6.8 unfortunately there won't seemingly be any immediate performance benefits if you are wanting to try out the Xe kernel driver, but at least it's now set to be in the mainline kernel and hopefully throughout 2024 there will be plenty more features and optimizations to find with this code now that the foundation is in place. Stay tuned to Phoronix for continued testing of this new open-source Intel kernel driver as well as news on further Xe driver developments as it happens.
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