Intel Core Ultra "Meteor Lake" Performance Improves With Linux 6.9

Written by Michael Larabel in Software on 29 April 2024 at 11:03 AM EDT. Page 2 of 5. 1 Comment.
Unvanquished benchmark with settings of Resolution: 1920 x 1200, Effects Quality: High. Linux 6.9 26 Apr was the fastest.
Unvanquished benchmark with settings of Resolution: 1920 x 1200, Effects Quality: Ultra. Linux 6.9 26 Apr was the fastest.
Unvanquished benchmark with settings of Resolution: 1920 x 1200, Effects Quality: Medium. Linux 6.9 26 Apr was the fastest.

For those interested in the Intel Arc Graphics integrated with the Core Ultra SoCs, the performance does improve nicely with Linux 6.9 compared to the current 6.8 stable shape.

Xonotic benchmark with settings of Resolution: 1920 x 1200, Effects Quality: Ultra. Linux 6.9 26 Apr was the fastest.

Not all of the workloads though were boosted with Linux 6.9.

FFmpeg benchmark with settings of Encoder: libx265, Scenario: Live. Linux 6.9 26 Apr was the fastest.
FFmpeg benchmark with settings of Encoder: libx265, Scenario: Platform. Linux 6.9 26 Apr was the fastest.
FFmpeg benchmark with settings of Encoder: libx265, Scenario: Video On Demand. Linux 6.9 26 Apr was the fastest.

The FFmpeg 7.0 performance on Meteor Lake tended to benefit from using the Linux 6.9 kernel.

FFmpeg benchmark with settings of Encoder: libx265, Scenario: Video On Demand. Linux 6.9 26 Apr was the fastest.

In some cases too the CPU power consumption on Linux 6.9 was slightly lower than 6.8 while delivering better performance -- again, thanks to Intel P-State tuning specific to Meteor Lake.


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