It may not ve very powerful but it's definitely more powerful than that.
Look at this:
http://www.notebookcheck.net/Intel-HD-Graphics-4000-Benchmarked.73567.0.html
On Windows, they get around 30-40 fps with several videogames which
render much complex scenes than the ones that yield me 18 or
You need to compare it with previous Ubuntu, not Windows. The driver
might not perform as well on Linux, and you can file a bug for it on
bugs.freedesktop.org if you like.
but the distro driver still is hardware accelerated and you get the
Unity UI - no bug here.
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You received this bug
but the distro driver still is hardware accelerated
That's what I doubt. How can I test and make sure it's not somehow
falling back to emulating openGL in CPU?
Doesn't the fact that the triangle test consumes 100% of a cpu core
demonstrate that it's using the CPU to perform such a simple task
OpenGL vendor string: Intel Open Source Technology Center
OpenGL renderer string: Mesa DRI Intel(R) Ivybridge Mobile
OpenGL version string: 3.0 Mesa 10.5.2
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