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Intel i915 vs. Xe Graphics Driver Benchmarks For Meteor Lake: Extra Performance In 2025
Last month I provided a fresh look at the Intel Arc A-Series graphics between the i915 and Xe kernel graphics drivers for Linux systems.
But the modern Xe kernel driver does support Meteor Lake and on recent versions of the Linux kernel it can be made to use it at boot time via manipulating the i915.force_probe= and xe.force_probe= module parameters to disable/enable the given driver based on your graphics PCI device ID. Today's article is looking at the performance of the Intel Meteor Lake graphics using a Core Ultra 7 155H with the Acer Swift 14 laptop. This is a straight-forward comparison of the Meteor Lake graphics between i915 and Xe drivers on Linux 6.17 so let's get straight to the data.
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