Mesa 9.2 Brings Some Performance Improvements For Intel IVB
In some of the OpenGL 3.0 workloads provided by GpuTest, the OpenGL performance there is also heading higher on Mesa 9.2.
While Intel's Linux developers are mostly focused on bettering the Haswell graphics support along with next-generation Bay Trail / Valley View and Broadwell, it's good to see Mesa 9.2 seeing some OpenGL performance improvements for the previous-generation Ivy Bridge graphics. Coming up soon will be a Linux 3.11 + Mesa 9.2 comparison for all major Linux graphics drivers against their Windows competition.
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