Posted on Friday, February 11 2011 @ 5:25 CET by Thomas De Maesschalck
After a month of headaches for Intel and myself, there are now
Sandy Bridge graphics benchmark results from the Intel Core i5 2500K
under Linux to finally publish. Sandy Bridge was a tough launch for
Intel in terms of the Linux coverage with the media having problems
building a working driver stack and then when I finally got my hands on
a CPU, I ran into an entirely different set of show-stopping problems.
The developers still have not solved the biggest original issue yet, but
Intel sent out a new motherboard and another CPU and it happens to "just
work" nicely under Linux. When using the latest bits of their
open-source Intel Linux graphics code, the performance on the Core i5
2500K is actually quite impressive compared to other open-source Linux
drivers.
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