When It Works, Intel Core i5 2500K Graphics On Linux Are Fast!

The last test ran this week for the Sandy Bridge Linux tests was Nexuiz. Like the Lightsmark results, the Core i5 2500K performance was slaughtered when running the Nexuiz game with its high quality settings, which heavily uses shaders and other rendering techniques that made the Intel graphics perform at a snails pace and the ATI Gallium3D drivers performed only slightly better but at a unplayable frame-rate and much slower than with the proprietary Linux graphics drivers.

The Core i5 2500K graphics came in last place for Nexuiz at 1920 x 1080 with the Phoronix Test Suite high quality settings.