Power and performance are closely intertwined and Intel processors give you fine grained control in exactly how you balance the system for both saving power and high levels of performance. With Oracle for example a busy OLTP environment may require high performance across all cores at the same time, whereas if DBA is building indexes or gathering statistics they may prefer to boost the performance for a single thread or process for that one job. However, they may be surprised to find that setting the “Maximum Performance” option may not actually be the best choice and could actually result in lower performance in some scenarios. In this scenario the users will select a BIOS option such as shown and assume the system will give the best possible performance all of the time. Nevertheless in mission critical environments some Oracle users ask for maximum performance configurations at the expense of some additional power usage. Users interested in reading about the most current merge request can be read on the Mesa GitLab page.If you look at the keynote slides from the recent Reimagine the Data Center event, Intel announced some of the products from its “Low Power Product Direction” with impressive figures for how low the power consumption now goes for both Xeon and Atom processors. Larabel states that 720 lines of new code have been completed, and over 220 codes have been deleted from the Mesa3D's Vulkan driver. It sees constant updates on a monthly average and updates the community frequently of any significant or minor changes.

Such implementations like OpenGL and Vulkan see support from major companies like Intel, AMD, NVIDIA, and more.

Since its humble beginnings in August of 1993, it has strengthened over the years to be integrated with many graphics engines across several platforms. The Mesa Project continues to be a collection of various APIs to assist with graphical support in an open-source environment.

Cpuidle Driver For Intel Processors