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Intel Lands "Round Robin Strict" Driver Optimization For Helping Battlemage/Xe2

Intel's open-source Linux graphics driver engineers are busy working to further refine the Xe2 graphics performance for Lunar Lake integrated graphics and the newly-launched Battlemage discrete graphics

Landing in Mesa 25.0-devel this Friday afternoon is a new "Round Robin Strict" optimization to benefit both their OpenGL and Vulkan drivers on Linux with Xe2 hardware. A new Xe2 tuning optimization hitting Mesa is setting the VFG distribution mode to Round Robin Strict "RR_STRICT" for Xe2 and newer. Their performance team found that adjusting the VFG distribution mode can help with some speed-ups on the new Intel graphics processors.

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