Ubuntu Intel Performance Still In Bad Shape

The lines composition performance had regressed.

The performance with the transformed blit bilinear operation was nearly the same.

Using the latest Ubuntu 9.10 + xorg-edgers code had resulted in a few problems with OpenGL on Intel not encountered in Ubuntu 9.04. With that said, the only test we were able to run was the Smokin Guns test profile, which uses the ioquake3 engine. The performance here was basically the same.

So far things are not looking brighter, but at this point worse. However, Ubuntu 9.10 is still a number of months out and the first alpha release has not even been released yet. We are confident that Intel's X.Org developers will be able to address these major regressions caused by the move to their new driver stack in time for the October release of the Karmic Koala. Ubuntu 9.10 will also see the integration of kernel mode-setting and Plymouth. These results today are simply intended to provide a glimpse at where the performance is today when using the Linux 2.6.30 kernel, Intel's slimmer driver, and other newer packages. If you want to run your own Linux graphics tests, be sure to try out the Phoronix Test Suite.