KDE Plasma Fixes A "Major Performance Issue" Seen With Intel Graphics On Wayland

[phoronix]

Phoronix: KDE Plasma Fixes A "Major Performance Issue" Seen With Intel Graphics On Wayland

KDE developers finished out June on a high note with many features and new fixes landing for Plasma 6.0 development as well as refinements for later Plasma 5.27 point releases...

https://www.phoronix.com/news/KDE-End-Of-June-2023

[andrei_me]

Regarding the Wayland fix, just skimmed through the MR, now it uses a cache for some framebuffer stuff instead of doing a roundtrip of getting the same thing from VRAM over and over again.

From the comments, it seems that the fix should improve the smoothness of Wayland sessions

[archkde]

Regarding the Wayland fix, just skimmed through the MR, now it uses a cache for some framebuffer stuff instead of doing a roundtrip of getting the same thing from VRAM over and over again.

From the comments, it seems that the fix should improve the smoothness of Wayland sessions

Interesting, I thought on Intel graphics VRAM is just the same as normal RAM.

[skeevy420]

Michael

Slight Typo:

More details on the kDE changes this week via Nate's blog.

[bug77]

Interesting, I thought on Intel graphics VRAM is just the same as normal RAM.

Could be a fix for Arc video cards?