Intel Sandy Bridge Caching Testing of Keith Packard's catching patch from his blog on 27 July for Intel graphics on Linux 3.5 kernel. Benchmarking by Michael Larabel on Phoronix. Stock: Processor: Intel Core i5-2520M @ 2.50GHz (4 Cores), Motherboard: HP 161C, Chipset: Intel 2nd Generation Core Family DRAM, Memory: 4096MB, Disk: 160GB INTEL SSDSA2M160, Graphics: Intel 2nd Generation Core Family IGP, Audio: IDT 92HD81B1X5, Network: Intel 82579LM Gigabit Connection + Intel Centrino Advanced-N 6205 OS: Ubuntu 12.10, Kernel: 3.5.0-6-generic (x86_64), Desktop: Unity 2D 6.0.0, Display Server: X Server 1.12.1.902 (1.12.2 RC 2), Display Driver: intel 2.20.2, OpenGL: 2.1 Mesa 8.1-devel (git-11ff18f), Compiler: GCC 4.7 + LLVM 3.0, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 1600x900 Flush: Processor: Intel Core i5-2520M @ 2.50GHz (4 Cores), Motherboard: HP 161C, Chipset: Intel 2nd Generation Core Family DRAM, Memory: 4096MB, Disk: 160GB INTEL SSDSA2M160, Graphics: Intel 2nd Generation Core Family IGP, Audio: IDT 92HD81B1X5, Network: Intel 82579LM Gigabit Connection + Intel Centrino Advanced-N 6205 OS: Ubuntu 12.10, Kernel: 3.5.0-justflush+ (x86_64), Desktop: Unity 2D 6.0.0, Display Server: X Server 1.12.1.902 (1.12.2 RC 2), Display Driver: intel 2.20.2, OpenGL: 2.1 Mesa 8.1-devel (git-11ff18f), Compiler: GCC 4.7 + LLVM 3.0, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 1600x900 Flip: Processor: Intel Core i5-2520M @ 2.50GHz (4 Cores), Motherboard: HP 161C, Chipset: Intel 2nd Generation Core Family DRAM, Memory: 4096MB, Disk: 160GB INTEL SSDSA2M160, Graphics: Intel 2nd Generation Core Family IGP, Audio: IDT 92HD81B1X5, Network: Intel 82579LM Gigabit Connection + Intel Centrino Advanced-N 6205 OS: Ubuntu 12.10, Kernel: 3.5.0-flipcaching+ (x86_64), Desktop: Unity 2D 6.0.0, Display Server: X Server 1.12.1.902 (1.12.2 RC 2), Display Driver: intel 2.20.2, OpenGL: 2.1 Mesa 8.1-devel (git-11ff18f), Compiler: GCC 4.7 + LLVM 3.0, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 1600x900 Doom 3 1.3.1 Resolution: 800 x 600 - 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