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You will absolutely need a GPU even if the CPU was 3x faster. It doesn't have anything to do with speed - the issue is that without hardware accelerated renderi
by sudosysgen 5y ago
You will absolutely need a GPU even if the CPU was 3x faster. It doesn't have anything to do with speed - the issue is that without hardware accelerated rendering, your battery life will tank, hard.
- rowanG077 5y agoIf you care about battery life I would say the video decode unit is much more important then the GPU. The M1 doesn't really struggle with rendering a basic DE.
- Wowfunhappy 5y agoIf you're playing games or rendering 3D models, sure, but how much graphics work does it really take to render a DE? Wasn't it Vista that was the first OS to even support graphics acceleration for rendering the UI? That was a long time ago, but not that long either, and I don't recall it coming alongside massive improvements in battery life. I'm not against graphics acceleration or anything, but I don't find it at all hard to believe that a fast, power-efficient CPU like the M1 could perform adequately with software rendering.
- sudosysgen 5y agoIt takes a fair amount of work to render a modern DE. Especially at high framerates. I'm sure an M1 could perform adequately, but it would probably be around half the efficiency possible otherwise.
- Wowfunhappy 5y agoSure, but the question isn't how it could run otherwise, but how well it runs in comparison to other options for running Linux.