Intel Core Ultra "Meteor Lake" Yields Faster Performance With Linux 6.9

There were some nice performance improvements for Meteor Lake by simply moving to the Linux 6.9 development kernel.

Across the 40+ benchmarks ran for this early Linux 6.9 kernel comparison on Meteor Lake, the Intel Core Ultra 7 155H had similar power use overall compared to Linux 6.8.

When taking the geometric mean of all the benchmarks carried out, Linux 6.9 was around 4% faster than Linux 6.8 but that varied a lot. With the integrated graphics performance the results were rather flat along with some light workloads but for multi-threaded work like code compilation or Blender and OSPRay Studio rendering there were some noticeable speed-ups. Web browser benchmarks were also faster along with some other creator workloads like around digital photography. So overall the Intel Core Ultra 7 "Meteor Lake" performance is looking nice on Linux 6.9 alongside all of the other new kernel features. More Linux 6.9 kernel benchmarks on different hardware is ongoing at Phoronix.