Older Broadwell Graphics Performance Is Looking Good With The New Intel Gallium3D OpenGL Linux Driver

[Michael]

I think you should start adding blender somehow with the rendering of cycles and realtime eevee in your benchmarks ...
by now they are points of reference also for comparison with other platforms .....

https://opendata.blender.org/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cpE2B2QSsa0

Blender is already in PTS and used in our CPU/OpenCL reviews but not sure what the point is in bringing it up for OpenGL perf? AFAIk, there are no OpenGL perf metrics exposed by Blender.

[nokipaike]

I think you should start adding blender somehow with the rendering of cycles and realtime eevee in your benchmarks ...
by now they are points of reference also for comparison with other platforms .....

https://opendata.blender.org/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cpE2B2QSsa0

[FireBurn]

I've been seeing a few issues with Iris - which behaves differently with the modesetting and intel ddx https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=111499

[oibaf]

Any plan on normalizing the geometric mean to 100,00? Having a random value makes no sense, while using 100,00 you can easily evince the percentage advantage of better drivers.

[phoronix]

Phoronix: Older Broadwell Graphics Performance Is Looking Good With The New Intel Gallium3D OpenGL Linux Driver

A majority of our benchmarking of Intel's new Gallium3D OpenGL open-source driver is done with various "Gen9" graphics hardware given its proliferation and not yet having any Icelake Gen11 graphics hardware for Linux benchmarking. But with the Iris Gallium3D going back to supporting Broadwell "Gen8" graphics, here is a fresh look at how that oldest supported Intel hardware is working for this new Linux open-source OpenGL driver compared to the current default "i965" Intel OpenGL driver too.

http://www.phoronix.com/vr.php?view=28286