Intel Lunar Lake On Linux Can Roughly Match Windows 11 Xe2 Graphics - When Not Stuck At 400MHz
To much surprise with the GravityMark graphics benchmark native to both Windows and Linux, the Intel open-source drivers on Linux was delivering much better performance than Windows 11 Pro as shipped by Lenovo (plus the latest software updates) on this ThinkPad X1 Carbon Gen 13. Particularly with OpenGL the Linux performance was much greater but even when comparing the Vulkan renderer performance there was a nice showing out of the Mesa 25.0 Intel ANV open-source driver with the Xe kernel driver from Linux 6.14.
Similar to the situation on the AMD side, the big exception to the strong Linux showing was for ray-tracing... The Intel Windows driver was much faster at Vulkan ray-tracing than the current Linux driver stack.
Running Quake II RTX that is native to each platform showed the Intel ray-tracing performance on Linux in slightly better shape but overall a stronger Windows showing than with rasterized graphics tests. In any case though Quake II RTX at the native 2880 x 1800 resolution for the Lenovo ThinkPad X1 Carbon Gen 13 was not a playable experience.