Intel's Linux OpenGL Driver Faster Than Apple's OS X Driver

An anonymous reader writes "The open-source Intel Linux graphics driver has hit a milestone of now being faster than Apple's own OpenGL stack on OS X. The Intel Linux driver on Ubuntu 13.04 is now clearly faster than Apple's internally-developed Intel OpenGL driver on OS X 10.8.3. when benchmarked from a 'Sandy Bridge' class Mac Mini. Only some months ago, Apple's GL driver was still trouncing the Intel Linux Mesa driver."

Comments

Re:Just so you know

[Anonymous Coward]

I do not believe there are better Xorg drivers available in Linux, including NVidia.

The problem with the intel drivers is that no matter what settings I try all the video playback through emacs is CHOPPY AS HELL!. It's unreadable. The Xorg drivers from NVIdia at least can deinterlace without crashing, but they are still choppy. I'll wait for the Ubuntu version.

Re:That's great news!

[Samantha Wright]

No, I'm pretty sure "depreciated" is right, since no ceasefire has been called. Think of it as a more tongue-in-cheek equivalent, along the lines of PHP deprecation, which actually means "popular."