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Intel Linux Graphics Driver Seeing 2~5% Faster Shader Compilation Times, Up To ~20%


A few days ago I wrote about Intel fixing some Panther Lake Xe3 graphics performance issues ahead of launch

A few days ago I wrote about Intel fixing some Panther Lake Xe3 graphics performance issues ahead of launch. The good news though is that some separate improvements were merged now for Mesa 25.3 to help enhance the Intel graphics shader compilation performance. In some workloads like Cyberpunk 2077 there is as much as 20% faster shader compilation times and games like Red Dead Redemption 2 and Baldur's Gate 3 hitting in the 5~8% range.

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