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Re: Update on OpenGL performance on Intel GPUs

 

Where I said CPU, I was meaning Laptop… I must proofread before I
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Miguel Ángel Ajo


On Thursday, 5 de February de 2015 at 11:49, Miguel Ángel Ajo wrote:

> 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.
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> Miguel Ángel Ajo
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> On Thursday, 5 de February de 2015 at 11:10, Lorenzo Marcantonio wrote:
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> > 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.
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> > (the reason is that in the HD GPUs shaders are run on the GPU, not in
> > the mesa library :D)
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> > 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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