Broadwell Ubuntu 16.04 Mesa 11.3 Intel Graphics Intel Core i7-5600U testing with a LENOVO 20BSCTO1WW and Intel Broadwell-U on Ubuntu 16.04. Tests on Mesa 11.2 vs. 11.3-dev and with Linux 4.4 and Linux 4.6 kernels. Tests for a future article on Phoronix. Mesa 11.2 + Linux 4.4: Processor: Intel Core i7-5600U @ 3.20GHz (4 Cores), Motherboard: LENOVO 20BSCTO1WW, Chipset: Intel Broadwell-U-OPI, Memory: 8192MB, Disk: 128GB SAMSUNG MZNTE128, Graphics: Intel Broadwell-U (950MHz), Audio: Intel Broadwell-U Audio, Network: Intel Connection + Intel Wireless 7265 OS: Ubuntu 16.04, Kernel: 4.4.0-22-generic (x86_64), Desktop: Unity 7.4.0, Display Server: X Server 1.18.3, Display Driver: intel 2.99.917, OpenGL: 3.3 Mesa 11.2.0, OpenCL: OpenCL 1.2 beignet 1.1.1, Compiler: GCC 5.3.1 20160413, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 1920x1080 Mesa 11.3.0-dev + Linux 4.4: Processor: Intel Core i7-5600U @ 3.20GHz (4 Cores), Motherboard: LENOVO 20BSCTO1WW, Chipset: Intel Broadwell-U-OPI, Memory: 8192MB, Disk: 128GB SAMSUNG MZNTE128, Graphics: Intel Broadwell-U (950MHz), Audio: Intel Broadwell-U Audio, Network: Intel Connection + Intel Wireless 7265 OS: Ubuntu 16.04, Kernel: 4.4.0-22-generic (x86_64), Desktop: Unity 7.4.0, Display Server: X Server 1.18.3, Display Driver: intel 2.99.917, OpenGL: 4.2 Mesa 11.3.0-devel (git-265487a 2016-05-17 xenial-oibaf-ppa), OpenCL: OpenCL 1.2 beignet 1.1.1, Compiler: GCC 5.3.1 20160413, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 1920x1080 Mesa 11.3.0-dev + Linux 4.6: Processor: Intel Core i7-5600U @ 3.20GHz (4 Cores), Motherboard: LENOVO 20BSCTO1WW, Chipset: Intel Broadwell-U-OPI, Memory: 8192MB, Disk: 128GB SAMSUNG MZNTE128, Graphics: Intel Broadwell-U (950MHz), Audio: Intel Broadwell-U Audio, Network: Intel Connection + Intel Wireless 7265 OS: Ubuntu 16.04, Kernel: 4.6.0-040600-generic (x86_64), Desktop: Unity 7.4.0, Display Server: X Server 1.18.3, Display Driver: intel 2.99.917, OpenGL: 4.2 Mesa 11.3.0-devel (git-265487a 2016-05-17 xenial-oibaf-ppa), OpenCL: OpenCL 1.2 beignet 1.1.1, Compiler: GCC 5.3.1 20160413, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 1920x1080 OpenArena 0.8.8 Resolution: 1920 x 1080 Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better Mesa 11.2 + Linux 4.4 ....... 29.02 |================================= Mesa 11.3.0-dev + Linux 4.4 . 37.33 |========================================== Mesa 11.3.0-dev + Linux 4.6 . 36.97 |========================================== OpenArena 0.8.8 Resolution: 1920 x 1080 - Total Frame Time Milliseconds < Lower Is Better Mesa 11.2 + Linux 4.4 ....... MIN: 4.0 AVG: 33.3 MAX: 75.0 Mesa 11.3.0-dev + Linux 4.4 . MIN: 4.0 AVG: 26.8 MAX: 62.0 Mesa 11.3.0-dev + Linux 4.6 . MIN: 5.0 AVG: 27.1 MAX: 61.0 Tesseract 2014-05-12 Resolution: 1280 x 1024 Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better Mesa 11.2 + Linux 4.4 ....... 42.59 |=================================== Mesa 11.3.0-dev + Linux 4.4 . 51.12 |========================================== Mesa 11.3.0-dev + Linux 4.6 . 51.10 |========================================== Tesseract 2014-05-12 Resolution: 1920 x 1080 Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better Mesa 11.2 + Linux 4.4 ....... 31.40 |================================== Mesa 11.3.0-dev + Linux 4.4 . 38.39 |========================================= Mesa 11.3.0-dev + Linux 4.6 . 38.90 |========================================== Unigine Valley 1.0 Resolution: 1280 x 1024 - Mode: Fullscreen Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better Mesa 11.2 + Linux 4.4 ....... 6.31 |====================================== Mesa 11.3.0-dev + Linux 4.4 . 7.08 |========================================== Mesa 11.3.0-dev + Linux 4.6 . 7.23 |=========================================== Xonotic 0.8 Resolution: 1280 x 1024 - Effects Quality: High Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better Mesa 11.2 + Linux 4.4 ....... 58.42 |================================ Mesa 11.3.0-dev + Linux 4.4 . 75.77 |========================================== Mesa 11.3.0-dev + Linux 4.6 . 70.27 |======================================= Xonotic 0.8 Resolution: 1280 x 1024 - Effects Quality: Ultra Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better Mesa 11.2 + Linux 4.4 ....... 46.31 |================================= Mesa 11.3.0-dev + Linux 4.4 . 59.04 |========================================== Mesa 11.3.0-dev + Linux 4.6 . 59.49 |========================================== GpuTest 0.7.0 Test: Plot3D - Resolution: 1920 x 1080 - Mode: Fullscreen Points > Higher Is Better Mesa 11.2 + Linux 4.4 ....... 3361 |================================= Mesa 11.3.0-dev + Linux 4.4 . 4343 |=========================================== Mesa 11.3.0-dev + Linux 4.6 . 4349 |=========================================== GpuTest 0.7.0 Test: Furmark - Resolution: 1920 x 1080 - Mode: Fullscreen Points > Higher Is Better Mesa 11.2 + Linux 4.4 ....... 319 |========================================= Mesa 11.3.0-dev + Linux 4.4 . 344 |============================================ Mesa 11.3.0-dev + Linux 4.6 . 342 |============================================ GpuTest 0.7.0 Test: Triangle - Resolution: 1920 x 1080 - Mode: Fullscreen Points > Higher Is Better Mesa 11.2 + Linux 4.4 ....... 31684 |================================== Mesa 11.3.0-dev + Linux 4.4 . 39100 |========================================== Mesa 11.3.0-dev + Linux 4.6 . 39540 |========================================== GpuTest 0.7.0 Test: Pixmark Piano - Resolution: 1920 x 1080 - Mode: Fullscreen Points > Higher Is Better Mesa 11.2 + Linux 4.4 ....... 89 |=========================================== Mesa 11.3.0-dev + Linux 4.4 . 93 |============================================= Mesa 11.3.0-dev + Linux 4.6 . 93 |============================================= GpuTest 0.7.0 Test: Pixmark Volplosion - Resolution: 1920 x 1080 - Mode: Fullscreen Points > Higher Is Better Mesa 11.2 + Linux 4.4 ....... 257 |========================================= Mesa 11.3.0-dev + Linux 4.4 . 277 |============================================ Mesa 11.3.0-dev + Linux 4.6 . 277 |============================================