Intel Ivy Bridge Acceleration Of UXA vs. SNA
To no real surprise, Intel SNA continues to be much faster than the default UXA means of 2D hardware acceleration in a majority of the test cases. However, in some rare situations the UXA acceleration back-end is still faster. To test out the SNA performance yourself, simply set the AccelMethod in the xorg.conf to SNA.
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