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Intel Broadwell HD Graphics Tests With Mesa 10.7 Git
While Mesa 10.7 just recently entered development, the Git code is often benchmarked on Phoronix, and with not having delivered any Intel Broadwell Linux graphics tests in some time, here's the latest numbers as of this weekend.
The weekend Linux benchmarking was with the Intel Core i3 Broadwell NUC Kit and of Ubuntu 15.04 x86_64 when using its stock Mesa 10.5.4 packages and then upgrading to Mesa 10.7-devel Git using the Oibaf PPA for easy reproducibility.
The results of this Mesa 10.5 stable vs. 10.7-devel Git testing wasn't terribly exciting -- even for Broadwell -- hence this quick, one-page Sunday article.
Pixmark Volplosion was faster and that's about it per this OpenBenchmarking.org result file with all of the results. Given though that Mesa 10.7 is nearing OpenGL ES 3.1 and OpenGL 4.0~4.2 compliance, the results should be more interesting later in the summer.
Michael Larabel is the principal author of Phoronix.com and founded the site in 2004 with a focus on enriching the Linux hardware experience. Michael has written more than 10,000 articles covering the state of Linux hardware support, Linux performance, graphics drivers, and other topics. Michael is also the lead developer of the Phoronix Test Suite, Phoromatic, and OpenBenchmarking.org automated benchmarking software. He can be followed via Twitter or contacted via MichaelLarabel.com.
