And they get the money elsewhere.įor example Nivia recently build a complete new system from scratch that is selling very well. Only framerates and demos on computer shows/fairs. First its the same stroy as with AMD: making drivers is a cost. It was unheard of a few years back.Īnother thing is that Nvidia is not intersted in doing the drivers for any platform. It got to the point that even Windows users know now what graphic power management and sync to vblank is. Why would they? The product is out and sold. And HP or DELL are absolutely in no interest or position to change it. They make the vendors like HP and DELL to do that, thus making the drivers extreme old and buggy for the laptops these vendors sell. Not only that- they cannot do it legally so they don't offer drivers for laptops on their support website.
If they don't AMDs graphic will not work at all.
Moreover it questions the legality of their dirvers, because for example on laptops with Windows- AMD provides unassigned Intel graphics drivers inside subfolder of subfolder of their own driver. That means that the Nvidia or AMD graphics are at best of a second sort. All pictures or videos have to go through Intel CPU/GPU in the end. That means Nvidia or AMD are forbidden to provide proper drivers for their own product, thus making them not to perform at full capabilites and always being crappy. Intel responses to Nvidia (and thus AMD) by "attaching" the graphics to the CPU, which basically means Nvidia (and AMD) have to reverse engineer Intel graphics and the drivers (on any OS), which is illegal.
I've been tracking what some major graphics companies have been doing for some time now and the state is appalling, not only for any Linux kernel based distribution, but for everyone.įirst the Nvidia goes on war with that Intel graphics based on P III (amazing performance),that requires SLI by refusing the patents or license, so Intel won't compete with Nvidia in corporate segement. Phoronix: Intel HD 2000/2500/3000/4000 Linux OpenGL Comparisonįor seeing where the current OpenGL driver performance stands for Intel's open-source Linux graphics driver on Sandy Bridge and Ivy Bridge processors, the very latest Linux kernel and Mesa development code were tested across four different processors to stress the HD 2000, HD 2500, HD 3000, and HD 4000 graphics capabilities atop Ubuntu.
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