[HN Gopher] Nvidia R550 Linux Driver's Open Kernel Modules Perfo...
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       Nvidia R550 Linux Driver's Open Kernel Modules Performing Well on
       GeForce GPUs
        
       Author : mfiguiere
       Score  : 23 points
       Date   : 2024-03-06 17:50 UTC (5 hours ago)
        
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       | declaredapple wrote:
       | Do these completely replace the nvidia drivers? Do they support
       | DLSS 3 by chance? For some reason nvidia never released support
       | for dlss 3/3.5 unless I missed it.
        
         | PlutoIsAPlanet wrote:
         | The userland GL/Vulkan driver is still the same closed blob.
         | 
         | In the kernel driver the difference between the open and
         | closed, is that the open driver has ripped out a chunk of its
         | functionality that on newer nvidia GPUs has been moved to an
         | on-gpu processor (e.g. power management etc).
        
       | omneity wrote:
       | I wish this was ported to macos as well to enable eGPU setups.
       | The last compatible driver predates the first RTX series.
        
         | jsheard wrote:
         | Do the interfaces for third party GPU drivers even still exist
         | on the ARM version of macOS? The discrete GPU support that
         | Intel Macs had was officially scrapped in the ARM transition,
         | so that driver infrastructure is dead weight as far as Apple is
         | concerned.
        
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