Intel Xe Graphics Are Looking Great On Linux 5.11 With Nice Performance Uplift

Various games are running faster now on Linux 5.11-rc1 for this Tiger Lake notebook with Gen12 Xe LP graphics. Particularly for the lighter games are yielding the most uplift from the new kernel.

Even the synthetic OpenGL test cases were generally seeing healthy improvements in Linux 5.11... At least in part the uplift appears to be attributed to async page-flipping.

The triangle synthetic benchmark benefited substantially.