Free software drivers for the Intel 965GM Express Chipset

Free software drivers for the Intel 965GM Express Chipset

Posted May 12, 2007 9:36 UTC (Sat) by njs (subscriber, #40338)
In reply to: Free software drivers for the Intel 965GM Express Chipset by drag
Parent article: Free software drivers for the Intel 965GM Express Chipset

Modern graphics cards AFAICT basically *are* general purpose processors running a custom-built software renderer -- the hardware is a bit different from your average CPU (massively parallel array of little chips with weird instruction sets and cache structure), but whatever. It's a supercomputer, except it retails at ~$1k and it goes in a PCI slot. (I know at least one person who is literally using a high-end NVidia to replace an honest-to-goodness cluster).

It'd be nice if it were possible to get at those massively parallel CPUs without running Windows, though.

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