
Intel graphics card users who prefer the Linux OS have a significant performance boost to look forward to. On Friday, the latest release of the Mesa (v23.2) code included a performance optimization that has precipitated some very worthwhile games frame rate boosts. For example, using the latest code on an Intel Arc A770 graphics card in Linux saw Counter-Strike: Global Offensive running 11% faster.
Intel open-source Linux graphics driver engineer Francisco Jerez discussed the intel/gfx12.5 code change on GitLab. According to Jerez, some performance features which were expected to be enabled by default, had been accidentally disabled by the kernel.