As of writing this Fedora 29 is on kernel 5.0.9 which has an integrated i915 driver maintained by Intel. You accept all responsibility for any and all consequences of your following of the instructions below. I have also verified this to be working on at least one Intel NUC.Īll recommendations are provided AS IS with no warranties or guarantees of any kind. Similarly this likely should also apply to other Dell Precision Mobile 5000- and 7000-series laptops as well as the XPS and Inspiron lines. While the exact configuration is specific to Fedora and my system, with minor modifications it can be easily applied to all other Linux flavors.

Extreme tearing of high resolution video or full-screen 1080p upscaled to 4K video in VLC and Chrome/Chromiumīelow is the final configuration that I came up with that resolved all of my issues.

Extremely low framerate on two 4K 60Hz Samsung monitors connected via a Thunderbolt hub with simple window rendering, browsing and video.

Extremely high CPU consumption working in IntelliJ/P圜harm with huge typing, scrolling, rendering lag.

Extremely high CPU consumption on video playback in Chrome/Chromium and scrolling.

High baseline idle CPU consumption in Chrome/Chromium and IntelliJ/P圜harm.

After starting to experience hard full system locks on video playback requiring a hard power off a few times a week, I have dug into the settings yet another time and finally had a breakthrough. For several years I’ve struggled with poor Intel integrated graphics performance on my Dell Precision Mobile 7510 (Intel HD 530 primary and Quadro M2000M discrete via Bumblebee) on Fedora Linux.

Fedora intel graphics driver