NVIDIA 370 Beta Has Experimental PRIME Synchronization

[phoronix]

Phoronix: NVIDIA 370 Beta Has Experimental PRIME Synchronization

Earlier this week NVIDIA rolled out the 370.23 beta Linux driver and alongside the Pascal over/under-clocking support and other improvements for the GeForce GTX 1000 series, there is also experimental PRIME synchronization support...

http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=NVIDIA-370-Beta-PRIME

[Adriannho]

NVIDIA has no plans to support PRIME render offload at this time.

Great. Just great. I knew it was a mistake to buy an optimus laptop. But I was confused by all those articles about PRIME syncronization that Michael started posting since last year, I thought they might finally implement it under Linux too. Stupid, stupid, stupid me.

Fuck u Nvidia!

[andre30correia]

NVIDIA has no plans to support PRIME render offload at this time.

Great. Just great. I knew it was a mistake to buy an optimus laptop. But I was confused by all those articles about PRIME syncronization that Michael started posting since last year, I thought they might finally implement it under Linux too. Stupid, stupid, stupid me.

Fuck u Nvidia!

bumblebee works well, the problem is nvidia prime used by ubuntu (one card per session) lacking sync and having horrible tearing.

the nvidia work is done
the intel work is done (by nvidia)
the kernel work is done.
Once agains we need to wait for Xorg (xorg really needs to die)

[bug77]

NVIDIA has no plans to support PRIME render offload at this time.

Great. Just great. I knew it was a mistake to buy an optimus laptop. But I was confused by all those articles about PRIME syncronization that Michael started posting since last year, I thought they might finally implement it under Linux too. Stupid, stupid, stupid me.

Fuck u Nvidia!

Let me get this straight. Nvidia never advertised offloading for Linux, you went out and bought a laptop with a Nvidia GPU thinking nouveau guys will get offloading to work, offloading still doesn't work and it's Nvidia's fault?

[Adriannho]

Let me get this straight. Nvidia never advertised offloading for Linux, you went out and bought a laptop with a Nvidia GPU thinking nouveau guys will get offloading to work, offloading still doesn't work and it's Nvidia's fault?

nuveau?! no dude, I thought nvidia willl make it work.
and yes, It was my fault for not going deeper into the topic before making the decision. But I really got a laptop with a 960 at a good price back then.

Bumblebee is a joke and yes, it'a all nvidia'a fault. If they can support offloading on Windows, why can't they do the same on Linux????????
Why?????????????????????? Just why??????????????

[darkbasic]

Yes, it's your fault. Next time you will probably remember to buy AMD cards instead of Nvidia's proprietary shit.

[johnc]

bumblebee works well, the problem is nvidia prime used by ubuntu (one card per session) lacking sync and having horrible tearing.

the nvidia work is done
the intel work is done (by nvidia)
the kernel work is done.
Once agains we need to wait for Xorg (xorg really needs to die)

Even if that were true, nvidia is kinda free to make the changes to Xorg needed to make the feature work.

[bug77]

nuveau?! no dude, I thought nvidia willl make it work.

Why would you think that, when they never advertised the feature?

[jukk]

Posting this from a laptop (with Nvidia GTX 660M) running Fedora with Bumblebee and proprietary Nvidia driver. Works fine. Just remember to run applications and games with "primusrun". I don't have much hope in Prime yet.

[chuckula]

NVIDIA has no plans to support PRIME render offload at this time.

Great. Just great. I knew it was a mistake to buy an optimus laptop. But I was confused by all those articles about PRIME syncronization that Michael started posting since last year, I thought they might finally implement it under Linux too. Stupid, stupid, stupid me.

Fuck u Nvidia!

OK, so you're clearly an idiot.

Not Nvidia's problem.