Benchmarking The Current Intel OpenCL NEO Driver Compute Performance On Ubuntu 19.04

Nearly across the board, the modern OpenCL NEO driver was delivering significantly better performance than the former Beignet driver. The performance of NEO has certainly improved a lot over the past year as its matured along with the IGC (Intel Graphics Compiler) and related components.

Of the SHOC tests, the texture read bandwidth benchmark was the only case where Beignet came out ahead.