Intel Boosts Gen7 GPU Vulkan Compute Performance By ~330% For Geekbench

[phoronix]

Phoronix: Intel Boosts Gen7 GPU Vulkan Compute Performance By ~330% For Geekbench

Intel's open-source "ANV" Vulkan driver for Linux doesn't see much attention for pre-Broadwell hardware but today it saw a big improvement for Vulkan compute on aging Gen7 Ivybridge/Haswell era hardware...

http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Intel-Gen7-Compute-Cache-Boost

[Snaipersky]

It would be nice to have configurable power budget for GPU v. CPU, it would be helpful for tasks such as transcoding or light gaming.

[milkylainen]

Holy "#¤%#¤% oversight, Batman...

[programmerjake]

big oops!

[tildearrow]

Amazi-

....and then, another set of vulnerabilities will be found and the improvement is nullified by the mitigations. :<

[Veerappan]

Amazi-

....and then, another set of vulnerabilities will be found and the improvement is nullified by the mitigations. :<

Think of it the other way around... This is banking performance for the next round of vulnerability mitigations.

Also, given that my work laptop is a quad core mobile haswell, I'm interested

[smitty3268]

Why is there no link to this in the article?

[Electric-Gecko]

Great. I'm happy to see this as I still have a Haswell laptop, though I'm planning to replace it soon. Not so timely for me, but still nice to see.

[xcom]

Is it possible to use both Discrete gpu and Intel integrated one in a Vulkan game?

[biocrusoe]

Why is there no link to this in the article?

I found it at https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/mesa/..._requests/3912