Intel Sandy Bridge Mobile GT2 Thread Count Quick tests of Mesa from this weekend by Michael Larabel for Phoronix.com testing with regard to the Counter-Strike: Source performance boost from correcting the max WM thread count for Intel Gen6 Sandy Bridge GT2. 40 WM Threads: 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-fdd8df2), Compiler: GCC 4.7 + LLVM 3.0, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 1600x900 80 WM Threads: 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-dcf8754), Compiler: GCC 4.7 + LLVM 3.0, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 1600x900 Doom 3 1.3.1 Resolution: 1600 x 900 - Quality: Low Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better 40 WM Threads . 30.03 |======================================================== 80 WM Threads . 29.97 |======================================================== Lightsmark 2008 Resolution: 1440 x 900 Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better 40 WM Threads . 54.46 |======================================================== 80 WM Threads . 54.31 |======================================================== Lightsmark 2008 Resolution: 1600 x 900 Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better 40 WM Threads . 50.46 |======================================================== 80 WM Threads . 50.40 |======================================================== OpenArena 0.8.5 Resolution: 1600 x 900 Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better 40 WM Threads . 96.37 |======================================================== 80 WM Threads . 96.10 |======================================================== OpenArena 0.8.8 Resolution: 1440 x 900 Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better 40 WM Threads . 25.70 |======================================================== 80 WM Threads . 25.90 |======================================================== Prey 1.4.119 Resolution: 1600 x 900 Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better 40 WM Threads . 22.30 |======================================================== 80 WM Threads . 22.30 |======================================================== Xonotic 0.6 Resolution: 1440 x 900 - Effects Quality: Low Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better 40 WM Threads . 81.94 |======================================================== 80 WM Threads . 80.11 |======================================================= Xonotic 0.6 Resolution: 1600 x 900 - Effects Quality: Low Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better 40 WM Threads . 76.86 |======================================================== 80 WM Threads . 74.30 |====================================================== Xonotic 0.6 Resolution: 1440 x 900 - Effects Quality: High Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better 40 WM Threads . 44.65 |====================================================== 80 WM Threads . 46.00 |======================================================== Xonotic 0.6 Resolution: 1600 x 900 - Effects Quality: High Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better 40 WM Threads . 41.19 |====================================================== 80 WM Threads . 42.69 |========================================================