To No Surprise, Intel's Discrete GPU Efforts Will Support Linux Gaming

Great to hear! If the Linux support for that GPU is as stellar as it is now, I'm planning to get one as soon as I can.

[hajj_3]

Interestingly intel released new windows drivers called 'Windows modern drivers' a few days ago: https://www.neowin.net/news/intel-in...for-windows-10

They require skylake or newer, just like intel's new gallium3d driver. Maybe they are creating a new driver for both platforms to share much of the same code?

[Xaero_Vincent]

I hope they support open-source GVT-g on these discrete cards like they have with Intel HD and Iris iGPUs.

This would make shared GPU passthrough on many more Linux computers and make playing DirectX 12 Windows Store / UWP games (Like Forza Horizon 4) possible from within a Windows Virtual Machine, without needing as stringent IOMMU / VFIO requirements.

[Michael]

Will they use AMD architecture, or their own in these discrete GPUs?

Their own architecture.

[shmerl]

Will they use AMD architecture, or their own in these discrete GPUs?

[schmidtbag]

I'm not at all surprised about their intent on driver support. What surprises me is they specifically pointed out "gaming", seeing as there hasn't been much word on whether Intel was planning on explicitly making a gaming GPU (they did make it very clear that they intended to compete in enterprise).

[phoronix]

Phoronix: To No Surprise, Intel's Discrete GPU Efforts Will Support Linux Gaming

It should come as virtually no surprise to any regular Phoronix reader given the significant investment Intel makes to Linux via their Open-Source Technology Center with working on Mesa for their Vulkan/OpenGL drivers and related components, but their discrete GPU undertaking will support Linux gaming alongside Windows...

http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Intel-dGPU-Will-Do-Linux-Gaming