Posted on Friday, September 09 2011 @ 22:36 CEST by Thomas De Maesschalck
Last week benchmarks were published of Intel's New Sandy
Bridge Acceleration architecture (SNA) that showed several performance
improvements for 2D and 3D, but the new acceleration architecture still
wasn't mature with a few regressions compared to the normal UXA
back-end. While the focus of this SNA support is on speeding up
operations for Sandy Bridge (SNB) and forthcoming Ivy Bridge (IVB)
hardware, SNA is supported for older Intel graphics processors too. Here
are some benchmarks of the Sandy Bridge New Acceleration architecture
when using the Ironlake and Gen3 back-ends.
Read more
at Phoronix.