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."

Just so you know

[Anonymous Coward]

For all you integrated GPU haters and Intel haters... the Intel Linux drivers are straight up excellent. I do not believe there are better Xorg drivers available in Linux, including NVidia. Intel has really been diligently working to make their Xorg drivers work well and they deserve credit. For desktop work, HD video and other non-first person shooter use cases both the hardware and the drivers are a godsend and I thank Intel.

Re:Just so you know

[Rolman]

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

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

There, fixed that for ya ;)

Re:really need this

[ikaruga]

I'm not sure if you're being sarcastic or not, but in case you aren't, I think you need a GPU with at least Pixel Shader 2.0 hardware in order to play it. anything bellow and it will crash the moment you open a portal. Unfortunately, no driver update can fix this problem.

Re:That's great news!

[girlintraining]

But hey, on the bright side, I bet you've gotten fewer creepy marriage proposals through here than I have.

You're right. I just get creepy descriptions of lewd sexual acts and rape threats; Only a couple marriage proposals.

And there's always the mysterious anonymous butt pirate, but given the rate of such posts I'm starting to wonder if there's only one guy in the entire world who does that, sort of like Wowbagger the Infinitely Prolonged.

Oh we have that here. There used to be Thog, who always posted in all caps and pretended to be a caveman. He was the reason for the "lameness" filters you sometimes encounter when trying to post. Then there was the 'natalie portman' and 'hot grits' puberty that slashdot went through on its way to full fledged "ur gay" maturity...