Intel Xe vs. i915 Driver Performance On Linux 6.19 For Arc Alchemist GPUs
Written by Michael Larabel in Display Drivers on 28 December 2025 at 11:10 AM EST. Page 3 of 5. 20 Comments.
With some of the Unvanquished game runs there were just very slight improvements in going for the modern Xe driver rather than i915.
Similarly, not much of a difference for the Xonotic game that is rather lax by today's graphics standards/
Interesting for the YQuake2 game there were advantages to using the Xe driver in some areas but in a few of the runs some significant performance regressions when switching over to the Xe kernel driver.