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right. what do you think about nvidia's recently released gpu drivers ?
by m00dy 4y ago
right. what do you think about nvidia's recently released gpu drivers ?
- dagmx 4y agoI think it’s good , but doesn’t change too much unless you’re a kernel implementer. They’ve been busy moving the vast amount of the bits into the GPU firmware (not uncommon, this is how Apple and some others do it too). I think the FOSS crowd made a bigger deal of it than it was because it appealed to their sensibilities. The best new OSS-ish stuff from NVidia is their research, and things backing that research. They’ve released a lot of their nerf tech in the wild and Warp (a differential Python to CUDA transpiler) which are very cool.
- TkTech 4y agoNot the person you're replying to, but those drivers are essentially just the communication bridge between the kernel and the "real" driver, which is mostly in the closed-source firmware blob. They're also woefully incomplete.