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Nouveau Re-Clocking Is Way Faster, Shows Much Progress For Open-Source NVIDIA
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Originally posted by zanny View PostI wonder how much of the interest in Nouveau is because its an uphill fight against Nvidia every step of the way. I can't really comprehend how the Nouveau project is as far along as they are - I realize that Nouveau (plus Lima, Freedreno, etc) all piggyback off AMD's Gallium work, who then piggy backs off a lot of Intel work in core Mesa, but the fact that Nouveau is looking to trade blows with RadeonSI while being a reverse engineering project with volunteer devs is amazing.
Maybe AMD shoots themselves in the foot by providing programming manuals, deep technical documentation, and paid developers. Maybe they should release a card as a proprietary black box for a year just to attract hardware hackers to break it open and do most of the work...
The largest contribution from AMD has to be Gallium in general though. The results speak for them selves - almost all the ARM reverse engineered drivers and any new GPU use it. I hope Google is punching themselves in the face for not adopting it in their graphics stack rather than the backwards awful proprietary blobs they have going on in Android.
As for Gallium, its success should have gotten Google into the act and why they didn't jump at it is beyond me.
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Awesome article, it's great to see Nouveau moving forward. Hopefully I'll be able to start using it as my default driver sometime in the next year.
Just a little quibble about a detail in the article; the test rig information box lists the CPU as being "Intel Core i7-4790k @4.00GHz (8 cores)". The 4790k doesn't have 8 cores, it has 4 cores, it can handle 8 threads. The preferred Intel nomenclature seems to be "4C8T", "8 threads", or "quad core with HT".
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