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LLVMpipe: OpenGL With Gallium3D on Your CPU
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| The software rasterizer used in Mesa that
| allows for software acceleration of OpenGL
| on the CPU without any assistance from the
| graphics processor has largely been
| useless. Even with a modern-day, multi-core
| processor, the performance of Mesa's
| software rasterizer has been abysmal. The
| performance of Mesa classic DRI drivers
| have traditionally been poor anyways
| compared to the high-performance,
| proprietary NVIDIA/ATI graphics drivers,
| but when dealing with just the software
| rasterizer there really aren't any games or
| applications that run well. Fortunately,
| software acceleration on Gallium3D is very
| much a different story thanks to LLVM.
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http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=gallium3d_llvmpipe&num=1
A shout-out to nouveau
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| They basically wrote a driver for an
| incredibly complicated piece of hardware,
| completely through memory trace dumps, with
| no help from nvidia whatsoever and can
| operate the 3D engine so well that one of
| the worldâs most awesome pieces of software
| runs on it. So from now on, I will no
| longer be using the binary nvidia driver,
| but instead nouveau, since it offers
| exactly what I need + next gen linux
| graphics technologies such as KMS,
| XRandR1.2 and G3D. Win Win Win.
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http://smspillaz.wordpress.com/2010/05/02/a-shout-out-to-nouveau/
Is Windows 7 Actually Faster Than Ubuntu 10.04?
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| What these results do show is that Ubuntu
| 10.04 LTS "Lucid Lynx" is very capable of
| being a comparable gaming platform to
| Microsoft Windows at least as far as the
| quantitative performance is concerned. This
| is good news as Valve's Steam client and
| the Source Engine come to Linux and the
| first of the Unigine Engine games (likely
| Primal Carnage) are released. The exception
| to this, however, is if using Intel
| graphics.
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http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=linux_windows_part1&num=1
Recent:
Nvidia Releases OpenGL 4.0 Linux Drivers
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| OpenGL was released just a month days ago.
| Now, Nvidia has released its latest OpenGL
| Linux driver with full support for OpenGl
| 4.0 on GeForce GTX 480/470. In addition to
| this, Nvidia has also release four new
| OpenGL extensions which provides additional
| capabilities to developers.
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http://techie-buzz.com/foss/nvidia-releases-opengl-linux-drivers.html
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