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 nVidia 960 GTX: Processor: Intel Core i7-6700K @ 4.20GHz (8 Cores), Motherboard: ASRock Z170M Pro4S, Chipset: Intel Skylake /DRAM, Memory: 32768MB, Disk: 441GB, Graphics: ASUS NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960 2048MB (135/405MHz), Audio: C-Media CMI8788, Network: Intel Connection OS: Fedora 24, Kernel: 4.4.8-300.fc23.x86_64 (x86_64), Desktop: KDE Frameworks 5, Display Driver: NVIDIA 364.19, OpenGL: 4.5.0, Compiler: GCC 6.1.1 20160510, File-System: btrfs, Screen Resolution: 1680x1050 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 |=== nVidia 960 GTX .............. 568.70 |========================================= 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 |======= nVidia 960 GTX .............. 313.21 |========================================= 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 |====== nVidia 960 GTX .............. 280.46 |========================================= 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 |==== nVidia 960 GTX .............. 70.58 |========================================== 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 |======= nVidia 960 GTX .............. 398.79 |========================================= 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 |======== nVidia 960 GTX .............. 321.15 |========================================= 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 |=== nVidia 960 GTX .............. 59204 |========================================== 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 |===== nVidia 960 GTX .............. 3020 |=========================================== 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 |===== nVidia 960 GTX .............. 303888 |========================================= 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 |===== nVidia 960 GTX .............. 833 |============================================ 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 |===== nVidia 960 GTX .............. 2521 |=========================================== OpenArena 0.8.8 Resolution: 1920 x 1080 - Total Frame Time Milliseconds < Lower Is Better nVidia 960 GTX . MIN: 1.0 AVG: 1.8 MAX: 5.0