Intel Sandy Bridge Is Performing Well On Mesa 8.1

The World of Padman results are also rather indifferent for the forthcoming 8.1 release. Again, most of the Sandy Bridge OpenGL performance optimizations were squeezed out while developing Mesa 8.0 for the open-source Intel Linux graphics driver.

Prey, the retail game based upon the id Tech 4 engine, went unchanged during the past three Mesa releases.

The ioquake3-powered Smokin' Guns and Urban Terror results were also largely uninteresting for this comparison.