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Comment by littlecranky67

19 hours ago

Wonder if there will be consumer video drivers for these GPUs once the AI hardware shortage is over. Hope to buy a gaming rig one day that doesn't cost a fortune.

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qingcharles  17 hours ago

You can vibe-code the drivers. Someone just did that with the Nvidia drivers for Intel Macs, bless their soul.

justincormack  16 hours ago

I dont think it has a video out

  • littlecranky67  16 hours ago

    I remember back in the day of AGP cards around 2002, you could use a 3d card on linux to render the grafix but use a different GPU for the actual output. I used XFree86 on linux with a voodoo banshee (or maybe was a riva tnt2) and a matrox mga200 for its sync-on-green support with my monitor to play games.

    I know modern card architecture doesn't support this out of the box, but what is the actuall problem of forwarding a once-rendered frame to another card for output? Sureley DMA transfers PCIe->RAM->PCIe nowaday are fast enough to saturate 60fps at 4K?

    • rescbr  10 hours ago

      Trivial to do this on Linux. I run my desktop on the on-chip Ryzen 9950X iGPU and I offload games to my nVidia dGPU.

      I had a crazier setup in the past with the Intel i7-8809G APU: it had an AMD iGPU for desktop connected to the display, nVidia eGPU for games and the Intel iGPU for video encoding.

      Of course there is additional latency due to frame copying, but I can’t notice it in practice.

    • bzzzt  15 hours ago

      I had that setup working back in the day with a Voodoo1 which had the pass-trough construction to take over full screen: only on Linux you could read the completed frames and render them in an X window. It was dog slow though.

      While transfers have improved a lot the amount data needed for 4K60 with HDR is about 18Gbps. There's no way that doesn't have an impact.

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