Intel Develops Linux 'Software GPU' That's ~29-51x Faster (phoronix.com)

Posted by Soulskill on Tuesday October 20, 2015 @11:30AM from the harder-better-faster-stronger dept.

An anonymous reader writes: Intel is open-sourcing their work on creating a high-performance graphics software rasterizer that originally was developed for scientific visualizations. Intel is planning to integrate this new OpenSWR project with Mesa to deploy it on the Linux desktop as a faster software rasterizer than what's currently available (LLVMpipe). OpenSWR should be ideal for cases where there isn't a discrete GPU available or the drivers fail to function. This software rasterizer implements OpenGL 3.2 on Intel/AMD CPUs supporting AVX(2) (Sandy Bridge / Bulldozer and newer) while being 29~51x faster than LLVMpipe and the code is MIT licensed. The code prior to being integrated in Mesa is offered on GitHub.

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TempleOS by Anonymous Coward · 2015-10-20 11:47 · Score: 1, Funny

It's not faster than mine. Mine is optimal. I am the best programmer, given divine intellect. We do not allow different drivers for different people. Everybody uses the same driver. We do not allow hidden logic in the GPU. All logic must be in the CPU.
-22 by Tablizer · 2015-10-20 12:14 · Score: 2, Funny

I did the math, and got -22x faster. I'll pass on it, Thank You.

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