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Intel Gallium3D Graphics Driver Performance
Posted by Philipp Esselbach on: 02/27/2011 09:50 AM [ Print | 0 comment(s) ]
Phoronix takes a look at the performance of the Intel Gallium3D Graphics Driver
While Intel remains to be the only major graphics vendor standing strong behind their classic Mesa driver on Linux for open-source support rather than drawing up plans to move to the Gallium3D driver architecture, there is actually available a Gallium3D driver available for Intel hardware. This Intel Gallium3D driver has been around since close to Gallium3D's inception, but it targets the older generations of Intel IGPs and was developed by VMware as a proof of concept. The driver is incomplete, but our testing shows that for those with Intel 945 netbooks and other hardware, the "i915g" driver is usable. In this article are benchmarks showing how this Intel Gallium3D driver compares to Intel's officially supported classic Mesa DRI driver.
Intel Gallium3D Graphics Driver Performance
