Intel Meteor Lake On Linux Two Years Post-Launch: 93% The Original Performance

Intel's latest processors are still losing nearly a tenth of their original performance on Linux two years after launch, a gap that persists despite the company's public commitments to the open-source community and raises questions about whether the chip giant is truly prioritizing software optimization beyond Windows. The finding, based on testing of Meteor Lake across multiple platforms, suggests that Linux users face a widening performance tax that Intel has shown little urgency in closing, even as the company courts developers and enterprises with promises of cross-platform support. For a company already struggling against AMD's resurgence, the revelation underscores a potential vulnerability: if Intel cannot deliver consistent performance across operating systems, it risks ceding ground to competitors in markets where Linux dominance

Phoronix·Feb 2