Intel Sandy Bridge Performance Goes Up Again

[FreeBSD]

Will H264 VAAPI support for 4500MHD ever be ready? Been waiting for ages, and getting really pissed.
I'm thinking about throwing my Dell with Ubuntu out to the garbage, and getting a Macbook

[Michael]

Please Michael show more graphics hardware benchmarks as a reference, ati or nvidia (preferably both), this way would be easy to see how the performance of SB compares to different hardware / driver.

You can do so using Openbenchmarking.org

[Jimbo]

Please Michael show more graphics hardware benchmarks as a reference, ati or nvidia (preferably both), this way would be easy to see how the performance of SB compares to different hardware / driver.

[schmidtbag]

i'm an amd fan and i would have to agree with everyone here that amd is just taking way too long. but, keep in mind even their windows drivers are bad. if they can't get their main audience some decent drivers when they release a product, they're not going to do it for linux either. until linux gets attention when products are released, i don't care about using anything new or fancy in it. the nice thing about linux is it's a lot more hardware efficient than windows, but, it takes longer for it to get there. if you don't have anything too demanding, just go with the newest compatible hardware.

i'm very happy to see intel putting in this much effort, and i didn't bother to check if Tgui was right but if so, its nice to know linux has competitive graphics performance.

considering all the kernel updates lately, i feel like linux should outperform windows in just about every test at this point, as long as we don't use amd or nvidia for the graphics tests. i'm aware ubuntu is considered the default distro due to the most popularity but i really wish phoronix would do separate tests on an optimized distro like gentoo or arch. ubuntu packs in so much unnecessary stuff.

[Tgui]

Eyeballing the older Windows VS Ubuntu thread:

http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=intel_hd3000_winbuntu&num=1

It seems that the Linux driver is on par with and sometimes exceeding the Windows driver!

[clavko]

Finally

Good. I was getting tired of all that AMD openness crap. "Yes, we're open. We're vevy vevy open." Yes, you are, dear. You are wide open.

How come xf86-video-ati devs can't do some reverse engineering akin to nouveau? How come Fusion/Zacate don't have open source video acceleration much alike SandyBridge. Hell, even Broadcom managed to push open source acceleration code for their Crystal family. SRSLY, Whats wrong with you, guys?

There. Now my steam pressure level is... lets say... tollerable.

[curaga]

I'm simultaniously happy about this and sad about the older intel gfx still sucking horribly. Is something like this not possible for them too?

[crazycheese]

This looks extremely sexy.
Im looking at selling my AMD rig and puchasing 2,5k.
Opencore is not opensource, proprietary with always half-arsed opensource strategy is not opensource really.

[FireBurn]

There is nothing stopping Ubuntu or any other distro from backporting these changes into what ever kernel they decide to ship

[przemoli]

I'm also cheering Intel. They may be the ones who bring OpenGL 3 to X land. And restart-free graphic switching, and, and, and.

Unfortunately Intel seam to adopt OpenGL 4.1 really slowly