On 10/5/11 3:38 PM, Eric Appleman wrote: > An Nvidia Optimus laptop is a laptop that has two GPUs: The dedicated > Nvidia GPU that has no physical output or LVDS connection and the Intel > GPU (sometimes on the CPU die) that displays the desktop. > > The Nvidia GPU is typically wired through the Intel GPU and is only > activated when needed (games, intense multimedia, etc). > > Here's a whitepaper: > http://www.nvidia.com/object/LO_optimus_whitepapers.html > > As I mentioned before, VirtualGL is a very nice solution for hardware > accelerated transportation. But we trade a fair amount of 3D performance > and hardware feature exposure (NV17, VDPAU, etc) by using it.
So why do you use VirtualGL at all, then? Your statement above implies that the machine already has a way of activating the GPU when needed, so what advantage does VGL give you? ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ All the data continuously generated in your IT infrastructure contains a definitive record of customers, application performance, security threats, fraudulent activity and more. Splunk takes this data and makes sense of it. Business sense. IT sense. Common sense. http://p.sf.net/sfu/splunk-d2dcopy1 _______________________________________________ VirtualGL-Users mailing list VirtualGL-Users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/virtualgl-users
