Posted on Tuesday, March 08 2011 @ 0:30 CET by Thomas De Maesschalck
There have been a number of Intel Sandy Bridge articles on
Phoronix since the January launch of this next-generation Intel CPU
micro-architecture. It's ranged from the Linux support being challenging
to dealing with motherboard problems and then the graphics performance
being fast relative to previous generations of Intel graphics and for
being based upon the classic Mesa driver architecture, but much slower
than Windows. Last week then the Sandy Bridge Linux performance became
much more interesting after a simple patch led to a huge performance win
to the point that the open-source Linux driver performance is much
closer to their full-featured Microsoft Windows driver. What is the next
chapter in the Intel Sandy Bridge Linux story? A look at the VA-API
video acceleration playback performance.
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at Phoronix.