Intel win drivers are fast enough for simple games but a pro gamer would certainly never use it. In most cases those boxes are used for office use, there gameing is maybe inside the webbrowser with some flash games. It seems that flash 10.1 can use the driver for accelleration already, would be nice when linux flash would use vaapi, then this would work too there.
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The Loser In Our Windows vs. Linux Tests: Intel Graphics
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- A new Graphical memory manager
- A new 2D hardware acceration architecture
- A new Direct Rendering Interface
Again, what real benefit did this give users over "Getting real things done"?
- Kernel Modesetting over userspace modesetting
- 3D acceration with Gallium 3D
Pretty much every facet of the driver has changed.
From these changes you these benefits that you didn't have before:
-X Server no longer has to run as root
-X Server can now handle compisiting with AIGLX(Accelerated Indirect Rendering)-You can change displays and X servers without changing mode
-Two different X server can now have hardware acceleration at the same time.
-Run multiple 3D applications at the same time
-Hardware accelerated Video
-Applications no longer overwrite each others graphic memory when directly rendering to the screen
The Intel Graphics driver stack has improve vastly since one year ago. Sure you lost some FPS when playing games, but the performance optimizations on the new architecture haven't come yet.
And all you list is things you caught from speeches and whatnot of how great things should have been in future. It is nice how michael did this benchmark and proved that maybe things aren't all that was professed.
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I'm interested in what came up for the Intel 945GM. I've been running Ubuntu on this laptop for a couple years, and the graphics used to be buggy and not work. I don't play games, but I do use dual monitors, watch movies, and have the 3d effects turned on. I've seen a definite improvement over the releases, I'd like to see a list of the improvements that were made over successive releases, and a comparison to Windows preformance
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Originally posted by m_gol View PostMy Intel 4500MHD can handle even relatively new games under Windows. Under Ubuntu, even OpenArena stutters. Come on, this game uses the Quake III Arena engine!
So these results don't surprise me at all.
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The problem is, not one cares gaming on Intel device. We have high expectation of AMD's hardware because we know, by design, they are capable of running leading edge games maxed out in effects. Intel, on the other hand, doesn't have this luxury from design, that's why out expectation for it is if it runs stable and video playback is fine, it's good. Bonus for running composite desktop. For AMD, that alone is not good enough.
So yes, intel does care about linux because their OSS driver still provides up to expectation function and performance and AMD is still far from it.
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Or a more appropriate comparsion:
Your three-year-old dog can understand sit, down, up, hand, that's a very smart dog, people will be happy about it. It also eat only $2 equivalent of food every day (energy consumption) Thinking that as Intel's GPU dog.
Your three-year-old son can only understand sit, down, up, hand, that's gonna cause serious panic among you and people who know you. It eats a lot, maybe $15 of food per day, and only does what a dog can do. Thinking that as AMD's GPU son.
Which one is better? The human is far smarter by design, however it can't do what it's supposed to do, it is troubled, dumb child. The dog is less smarter but it does perform up to expectation so it's a good dog.
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