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

[andre30correia]

We would appreciate any bug reports.

I'm working 16 hours for day, I will have vacations next week and I will report bugs with iris driver, testing with a new asus tuf with intel i58300h cpu

Good work intel I'm too see the great performance improvements not only with 3d but with opencl

[Michael]

It would be great if the driver would support Haswell and maybe sometime some dev has some free time to devote on this and adds this support. I would really appreciate that.
However this might just stay a dream for a long time (or forever).

It won't happen, the Gen architecture pre-Broadwell is too different and has already been explicitly stated they won't add pre-Gen8 support.

[baka0815]

It would be great if the driver would support Haswell and maybe sometime some dev has some free time to devote on this and adds this support. I would really appreciate that.
However this might just stay a dream for a long time (or forever).

[RussianNeuroMancer]

This is good news for my trusty old X250.

And for my Dell 5855 and 7140 too.

[foobaz]

This is good news for my trusty old X250.

[Kayden]

the driver have at this momment a lot of bugs, render bugs, etc. But I notice some improvements with the iris driver in some games

We would appreciate any bug reports.

[andre30correia]

the driver have at this momment a lot of bugs, render bugs, etc. But I notice some improvements with the iris driver in some games

[Michael]

Does this new Iris Gallium driver have any difference when it comes to Vulkan? Or is it just OpenGL?

It's only an OpenGL driver.

Does this new Iris Gallium driver have any difference when it comes to Vulkan? Or is it just OpenGL?

[nokipaike]

but not sure what the point is in bringing it up for OpenGL perf? AFAIk, there are no OpenGL perf metrics exposed by Blender.

I don't know these technical issues in detail, but since they are open to accepting patches in their code you could make an addition proposal, especially since there is a version made specifically for benchmarks
(I speak from user totally unrelated to blender team)

it would be nice to see how the machines perform on the new eevee realtime rendering engine