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Intel Releases Ivy Bridge Programming Docs Under CC License

Posted by timothy on from the buncha-commies dept.

An anonymous reader writes "The Ivy Bridge graphics processor from Intel is now fully documented under the Creative Commons. Intel released four volumes of documents (2400+ pages) covering their latest graphics core as a complete programming guide with register specifications. Included with the graphics documentation is their new execution unit and video engine."

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  1. Intel Graphics Still Sucks by evilviper · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    I still suggest avoiding Intel GPUs. The hardware isn't reliable, performance is very poor, and Linux driver support is quite iffy...

    My old i845 (P4 era) was a minor nightmare... The (analog) VGA output looked absolutely horrible on my Dell LCD. The DVI output was stable, except it simply crashed and burned when trying to do 1600x1200 over DVI (it could do the same res over VGA no problem) at least under RHEL5.x.

    Under RHEL6.x, it was a non-starter... 30 minutes of use or so, and the screen stops redrawing. You've got a mess on your screen, and (thanks to KVM) restarting X11 doesn't fix it... you have to completely reboot.

    I've since replaced that system with an GeForce 7025, and everything is working nicely... The (analog) VGA output looks perfect on this same LCD monitor that couldn't handle the i845 output. DVI works perfectly at every supported resolution. And it works perfectly under RHEL6.x with no weird issues thanks to Nouveau.

    Add to that the simple fact that AMD systems are usually a better value, and I just have to recommend avoiding Intel's GPUs, no matter how well they're doing supporting open source driver development. They're simply far inferior in every single other way...

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  2. Re:Captain Obvious Here by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    Stupid boy, real farms run FPGA racks not GPU's, GPU's give out too much heat and consume too much electricity.

    FPGA's is where the real hackers reside, not GPU's.

    Get out of the 2000's with your GPU thinking. Ever wonder you suck at Folding or Bitcoin farming? Real farmers plough binary fields with FPGA's.