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[Miguel Ángel Ajo <majopela@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Nice, it’s good to know that the 300EUR cpu range runs
OpenGL nice for our needs. That means we’re not adding a huge
entry barrier with the OpenGL implementation.


Miguel Ángel Ajo


On Thursday, 5 de February de 2015 at 11:10, Lorenzo Marcantonio wrote:

> Well, I got rich (more or less) and plundered the store for a 300 EUR
> laptop for the office. CPU power is slightly better but the GPU is not
> a 'classic' i915 but an HD one.
>  
> Performance on the opengl view is *waaaay* better; this time opengl is
> better than xlib drawing.
>  
> (the reason is that in the HD GPUs shaders are run on the GPU, not in
> the mesa library :D)
>  
> So I'd say that Intel's GPUs are now adequate, if you have at least an
> HD one.
>  
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> Lorenzo Marcantonio
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