Refreshed Sandy Bridge Graphics A renewed look at Intel Sandy Bridge graphics under Linux with the latest Mesa, kernel, and DDX code as of 2 March 2011. This is compared to the earlier Phoronx results under Linux and Microsoft Windows 7. The main focus is to see the performance improvements thanks to fixng the VS thread count bug. Windows 7 x64 Pro SP1: Processor: Intel64 Family 6 Model 42 Stepping 7 Intel (4 Cores), Memory: MB, Disk: 56GB OS: Microsoft Windows [ 6.1.7601], Kernel: 6.1 (x86_64) Intel 2011-02-08 Git: Processor: Intel Core i5-2500K @ 3.30GHz (4 Cores), Motherboard: Intel BLH6710H.86A.0075.2010.1112.1844, Chipset: Intel Sandy Bridge, Memory: 1792MB, Disk: 60GB OCZ-VERTEX2, Graphics: Intel Sandy Bridge IGP, Audio: Realtek ALC892, Monitor: DELL P2210H OS: Ubuntu 10.10, Kernel: 2.6.38-999-generic (x86_64), Desktop: GNOME 2.32.0, Display Server: X Server 1.9.2.901 (1.9.3 RC 1), Display Driver: intel 2.14.0, OpenGL: 2.1 Mesa 7.11-devel, Compiler: GCC 4.4.5, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 1920x1080 Intel 2011-03-02 Git: Processor: Intel Core i5-2500K @ 3.30GHz (4 Cores), Motherboard: Intel BLH6710H.86A.0075.2010.1112.1844, Chipset: Intel Sandy Bridge, Memory: 1792MB, Disk: 60GB OCZ-VERTEX2, Graphics: Intel Sandy Bridge IGP, Audio: Realtek ALC892, Monitor: DELL P2210H OS: Ubuntu 10.10, Kernel: 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