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[Phoronix] Intel UXA Acceleration Performance
Subsequent to the introduction of the Graphics Execution Manager earlier this year, Intel had introduced a new acceleration architecture . UXA, or the UMA Acceleration Architecture, was developed as a temporary solution based upon the EXA architecture but with support for the kernel-driven GEM ...
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[Phoronix] Intel Linux Graphics Performance Q4'08
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Intel UXA Acceleration Performance
DV Hardware — ... Subsequent to the introduction of the Graphics Execution Manager earlier this year, Intel had introduced a new acceleration architecture. UXA, or the UMA Acceleration Architecture, was developed as a temporary solution based upon the EXA architecture but with support for the kernel-driven GEM memory management. How though does the UXA performance compare to that of EXA? In this article we have ran some benchmarking looking at the Intel graphics performance. Read more at Phoronix. Intel UXA Acceleration Performance - More news at ...

Tech Roundup - December 29, 2008
Techgage News — ... Aten CS661 KVM - Hardware Bistro Intel UXA Acceleration Performance - Phoronix MSI R4670 2D512 - Motherboards.org Sapphire 4850x2 2GB - Overclock3D ...

Canonical To Not Enable UXA, Too Problematic
Phoronix — ... it's more optimal as more open-source graphics drivers turn to kernel memory management. Our UXA benchmarks have shown that this interface is significantly faster than EXA, but it's not yet free of bugs. Those using UXA are frequently prone to graphical corruption, X Server crashes, and other problems. The UMA Acceleration Architecture has been around for a number of months now, but the situation isn't better yet. Bryce Harrington, the lead X.Org engineer at Canonical, has decided these performance improvements do not outweigh Intel's UXA bugs and as a result it will not ...

Does A Greedy Intel Driver Improve Performance?
Phoronix — ... , and then when reverting to the older xf86-video-intel 2.4.1 driver and using EXA acceleration. Previously we have found that UXA to offer faster performance , which is based upon the EXA API but uses the Graphics Execution Manager for managing its pixmaps. Our test system consisted of a ...

Will Intel Completely Drop Support For EXA?
Phoronix — ... . UXA does offer better performance , but at this current time there are some very prominent bugs outstanding. We have talked about these problems before, but they largely deal with stability issues and graphics rendering defects. The UXA problems can be common among users so much so that ...

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