Intel Details Gen11 Graphics & Sunny Cove For Icelake

[phoronix]

Phoronix: Intel Details Gen11 Graphics & Sunny Cove For Icelake

At Intel's architecture day, the company finally detailed their "Gen 11" graphics that we've been seeing open-source Linux graphics driver patches for many months (Intel OTC posted their initial open-source display driver code in early January and has continued the enablement work since) albeit elusive in substantive user details and hardware until Icelake. But today at least we can share more about the significant improvements with Gen11 graphics...

http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Intel-Gen11-Graphics-Details

[uid313]

Finally VESA Adaptive-Sync!
I wish Intel had delivered this years ago before Nvidia got so dominant with G-Sync.

[tildearrow]

Typo:

- Efficency improvements and

[juno]

Finally VESA Adaptive-Sync!

\o/

I wish Intel had delivered this years ago before Nvidia got so dominant with G-Sync.

They're not dominant. There is a fair amount of good FreeSync monitors.

[uid313]

They're not dominant. There is a fair amount of good FreeSync monitors.

Yeah, but the market is fragmented.
I wish Intel and AMD had both quickly adopted VESA Adaptive-Sync so it could have been a widely adopted standard.
Maybe this would have forced Nvidia to adopt VESA Adaptive-Sync.
Then everyone would benefit when you could mix-and-match any GPU with any monitor, and easily do upgrade without being locked in to one manufacturer.

[wizard69]

Does the end of 2019 seem like a long ways off? Further how can they not have AV1 by then?

[Guest]

wizard69 - Need to refine codec spec a bit further, create some profiles like the other video codecs, and then the actual hardware implementation work.

[Guest]

Hold on, they weren't using tiling until now? Doesn't tiling support significantly increase performance?

Also, does this mean they can work with existing Freeysnc monitors?

[smitty3268]

Hold on, they weren't using tiling until now? Doesn't tiling support significantly increase performance?

Also, does this mean they can work with existing Freeysnc monitors?

Tiling tends to reduce memory bandwidth usage, and power usage, which is why it's popular on the mobile side. Historically, it hasn't necessarily been fantastic in terms of performance, but that doesn't seem to be a significant issue in recent designs. Still, most of the performance improvement will probably be because Intel GPU's have limited memory compared to a dedicated GPU which has tons of high speed stuff.

[juno]

Yeah, but the market is fragmented.
I wish Intel and AMD had both quickly adopted VESA Adaptive-Sync so it could have been a widely adopted standard.

They have. AMD basically introduced it and Intel said from the start that they're going to support it. They just haven't released a newly designed GPU since then.

Maybe this would have forced Nvidia to adopt VESA Adaptive-Sync.
Then everyone would benefit when you could mix-and-match any GPU with any monitor, and easily do upgrade without being locked in to one manufacturer.

Nvidia is doing what they always do. I don't think it would have made a difference if Intel supported VESA-AS two years ago. They would probably just have tried harder to advocate the "benefits" of G-Sync.