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Software rendering and acceler(...) 12/29/25(Mon)13:20:43 No.107703611

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Software rendering and acceleration, and user freedom Anonymous 12/29/25(Mon)13:20:43 No.107703611

Given that free GPU drivers only serve to load and interface with non free firmware that runs on your GPU and there being no free GPU firmware in existence, how practical would falling back to software acceleration with todays processor, especially in multi processor machines, be vs GPUs? How many years behind would this put one hardware wise?

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12/29/25(Mon)13:31:41 No.107703712

Anonymous 12/29/25(Mon)13:31:41 No.107703712

>>107703611
About......17 years back in terms of performance, with a current mid to high end CPU.

Anonymous
12/29/25(Mon)15:29:41 No.107704654

Anonymous 12/29/25(Mon)15:29:41 No.107704654

>>107703611
Your CPU also has nonfree firmware. RMS says that nonfree firmware is fine as long as its fixed, i.e., can't be undated.

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