Originally posted by LinAGKar
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NVIDIA 435.17 Linux Beta Driver Adds Vulkan + OpenGL PRIME Render Offload
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Has anyone ran a native steam game with this driver?
Both of the examples run great on 19.10 using the NVidia On-Demand profile:
Code:_PRIME_RENDER_OFFLOAD=1 __VK_LAYER_NV_optimus=NVIDIA_only vkcube __NV_PRIME_RENDER_OFFLOAD=1 __GLX_VENDOR_LIBRARY_NAME=nvidia glxgears
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This PRIME offloading is about using one GPU for display but having the actual rendering be done on a secondary GPU, as is common with many of today's high-end notebooks that have Intel integrated graphics paired with a discrete NVIDIA GPU.
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Originally posted by LinAGKar View PostIt's about damn time. It's been seven years since Linus gave them the finger.
In that case you'll have to run X on the Nvidia GPU, and use display offload onto the Intel GPU for the internal display (reverse prime).
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Originally posted by Floturcocantsee View PostJust got it up and running on my XPS 15 9570 running Pop 19.04. Works flawlessly, the driver is even smart enough to control the power state so that you don't need to fiddle around with bbswitch to manually unload the card when not in use.
Edit: found them
This PPA contains versions of the X.Org X server built with the patches needed to use PRIME render offload on the NVIDIA driver. See https://people.freedesktop.org/~aplattner/nvidia-readme/primerenderoffload.html for more details.
Fresh drivers from upstream, currently shipping Nvidia. ## Current releases Current production branch release: 550.107.02 Current new feature branch release: 555.58.02 Current beta release: 560.28.03 ## Legacy releases 470.256.02 (x86_64) - GKxxx “Kepler” GPUs 390.157 (x86 / x86_64 / ARM) - GF1xx “Fermi” GPUs (*) 340.108 (x86 / x86_64) - GeForce 8 and 9 series GPUs (*) 304.137 (x86 / x86_64) - GeForce 6 and 7 series GPUs (*) 173.14.39 (x86 / x86_64) - GeForce 5 series GPUs (*) 96.43.2...Last edited by royce; 14 August 2019, 06:07 AM.
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Originally posted by Floturcocantsee View PostJust got it up and running on my XPS 15 9570 running Pop 19.04. Works flawlessly, the driver is even smart enough to control the power state so that you don't need to fiddle around with bbswitch to manually unload the card when not in use.
As per aplattner’s suggestion from https://devtalk.nvidia.com/default/topic/957814/linux/prime-and-prime-synchronization/post/4953175/#4953175, I’ve taken the liberty to open a new thread for discussing on PRIME GPU render offload feature on Optimus-based hardware. As you may know, Nvidia’s current official support only allows GPU “Output” instead GPU “Offload” may be unsatisfactory as it translates into higher power consumption and heat production in laptops. I did suggest in the PRIME and P...
and apparently for pre-Turing it won't turn off and basically making it kinda pointless for such laptops. Can you confirm this is the case?
PS: if anyone knows about a COPR for fedora, please share
Thanks!
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Originally posted by kmare View Post
Thank you for reporting back! Are you sure the nvidia gfx is actually turned off when not in use? I just read a comment here:
As per aplattner’s suggestion from https://devtalk.nvidia.com/default/topic/957814/linux/prime-and-prime-synchronization/post/4953175/#4953175, I’ve taken the liberty to open a new thread for discussing on PRIME GPU render offload feature on Optimus-based hardware. As you may know, Nvidia’s current official support only allows GPU “Output” instead GPU “Offload” may be unsatisfactory as it translates into higher power consumption and heat production in laptops. I did suggest in the PRIME and P...
and apparently for pre-Turing it won't turn off and basically making it kinda pointless for such laptops. Can you confirm this is the case?
PS: if anyone knows about a COPR for fedora, please share
Thanks!
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Originally posted by kmare View Post
Thank you for reporting back! Are you sure the nvidia gfx is actually turned off when not in use? I just read a comment here:
As per aplattner’s suggestion from https://devtalk.nvidia.com/default/topic/957814/linux/prime-and-prime-synchronization/post/4953175/#4953175, I’ve taken the liberty to open a new thread for discussing on PRIME GPU render offload feature on Optimus-based hardware. As you may know, Nvidia’s current official support only allows GPU “Output” instead GPU “Offload” may be unsatisfactory as it translates into higher power consumption and heat production in laptops. I did suggest in the PRIME and P...
and apparently for pre-Turing it won't turn off and basically making it kinda pointless for such laptops. Can you confirm this is the case?
PS: if anyone knows about a COPR for fedora, please share
Thanks!
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Originally posted by darinmiller View PostHas anyone ran a native steam game with this driver?
Both of the examples run great on 19.10 using the NVidia On-Demand profile:
Code:_PRIME_RENDER_OFFLOAD=1 __VK_LAYER_NV_optimus=NVIDIA_only vkcube __NV_PRIME_RENDER_OFFLOAD=1 __GLX_VENDOR_LIBRARY_NAME=nvidia glxgears
PS: to work with steam you need to add "__NV_PRIME_RENDER_OFFLOAD=1 __GLX_VENDOR_LIBRARY_NAME=nvidia %command%" to the launch parameter
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