Intel Linux Graphics Driver Preparing NN Integer Mode Scaling

[phoronix]

Phoronix: Intel Linux Graphics Driver Preparing NN Integer Mode Scaling

Following the recent hype of Intel's Windows graphics driver introducing integer mode scaling support, their open-source Linux graphics driver is receiving similar treatment with nearest-neighbor integer scaling support...

http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?pag...nteger-Scaling

[tildearrow]

...what? The SNES already did this first?

Also, this will not work well for non-pixel art...

[AsuMagic]

Hey, nvidia did something similar on Windows. It only works on the 2xxx series.

I wish I was kidding.

[timofonic]

Can this be useful for ScummVM? It makes possible to run point and click adventure games, RPG games, Interactive Fiction... on more modern systems (Windows, Linux, Mac, Haiku, PS3, Wii, Nintendo Switch, Android, iOS, PSP, PS Vita, OS/2, BSD, webOS, Dreamcast, Pandora, etc.).

[torsionbar28]

Man, intel really needs to step up their game in iGPU's. Seems like they've been stagnant in this area for years now. The new Ryzen 3200G and 3400G have GPU performance that rivals discrete GPU's from just a few years ago. The 3400G in particular, looks on par with an Rx 460, pretty darn impressive.

[TheLexMachine]

Man, intel really needs to step up their game in iGPU's. Seems like they've been stagnant in this area for years now. The new Ryzen 3200G and 3400G have GPU performance that rivals discrete GPU's from just a few years ago. The 3400G in particular, looks on par with an Rx 460, pretty darn impressive.

Their current GPU design is based on architecture that is about a decade old and it was never intended for long-term use or gaming, as it was designed for media consumption and Internet use. It will (apparently) be discarded with the soon to be released GPU that was developed with the engineers that Intel poached from AMD and Nvidia in the past six years, which is more in line with current GPUs from those respective companies.

[bearoso]

...what? The SNES already did this first?

Also, this will not work well for non-pixel art...

Emulators have had this feature for a long time, yes. There’s also shaders that can scale to non-integer ratios and still maintain nearly the same sharpness level without irregular pixel size aliasing (https://github.com/libretro/slang-sh.../interpolation). The AANN and bandlimiting ones work quite well.

[sandy8925]

torsionbar28 - Well so far, Intel never really cared about competing in high performance graphics and compute. Their iGPUs are weak on purpose, they mainly care about the ability to run desktop GUI interfaces for the next several years.

I'm not sure if you've heard, but there are the Iris Plus CPUs with iGPUs that are much higher performance than their normal ones. Intel's also working on actual dGPUs and on better GPU performance.

They're already working on the thing that you want them to do.

[linuxgeex]

Kudos to Intel for respecting that users might have a preference for display scaling filter. I had that issue with my 22" portrait monitor next to my 50" TV... to get equally sharp text scaled up I couldn't use `xrandr --scale` because it was blurry as hell, so I had to write a modeline that doubled the pixels instead, and that is outside the wheelhouse of the average user.

OTOH, if you have a device with a 4k display and the included GPU can't afford the cycles to scale up a low-res image via a shader to 3x or higher integer scaling via OpenGL with NN filter, or if that uses a significant amount of power, then you have a pretty spectacularly broken GPU design lol.

My personal feeling is that this should be something implemented within DRM so that this feature (configurable scaling filters) extends to all display hardware, not just Intel, and then of course XOrg / Wayland etc need to expose that feature via xrandr etc.

[tildearrow]

Emulators have had this feature for a long time, yes. There’s also shaders that can scale to non-integer ratios and still maintain nearly the same sharpness level without irregular pixel size aliasing (https://github.com/libretro/slang-sh.../interpolation). The AANN and bandlimiting ones work quite well.

No, not emulators. I'm talking about hardware scaling.