Intel Lunar Lake On Linux Can Roughly Match Windows 11 Xe2 Graphics - When Not Stuck At 400MHz
From this brief round of Windows 11 vs. Ubuntu 25.04 graphics testing on Lunar Lake with the Lenovo ThinkPad X1 Carbon Gen 13 Aura Edition, on a geo mean basis it came out close overall. Windows had stronger advantages in areas like Vulkan ray-tracing but overall the Intel open-source driver support for Xe2 / Lunar Lake has matured a lot the past several months. Intel Lunar Lake on Linux is much more capable now than at launch and overall in good shape -- barring the glaring issue with this particular laptop of getting stuck to 400MHz out-of-the-box... Hopefully a proper resolution to that 400MHz CPU core issue will come soon but for now can be worked around by manipulating the platform profile. Meanwhile with like the ASUS Zenbook S14 with Core Ultra 7 256V for example it's been trouble-free under Linux for a while.
Stay tuned for more Linux benchmarks of the Lenovo ThinkPad X1 Carbon Gen 13 on Phoronix.
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