OneAPI/L0, OpenVINO and OpenCL Coming To WSL2 For Intel GPUs (phoronix.com) 6
"Intel is gearing up to go to a war with Nvidia," writes Slashdot reader labloke11. "They have their OneAPI and their GPU. It will be interesting... For me, I like competition." Phoronix reports: While Intel Alder Lake is dominating today's news cycle, Intel and Microsoft also announced today that they have brought oneAPI Level Zero and Intel OpenCL support to Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL2) while employing Intel graphics hardware acceleration. Similar to NVIDIA bringing CUDA and their accelerated GPU support to WSL2 as well as similar efforts by AMD on the Radeon side, Intel and Microsoft are now having Intel graphics compute working within the Linux confines on Windows 11 or Windows 10 21'H2. Hardware-accelerated oneAPI Level Zero, OpenVINO, and OpenCL on Intel graphics hardware can now be enjoyed within the WSL2 environment when using the latest updates and drivers. Like with the rest of the WSL2 stack and capabilities from other GPU vendors, this is at a near-native level of performance. More information can be found via the Microsoft Command Line blog and Intel blog.
Windaz (Score:2)
wake me up when... (Score:2)
Wake me up when Intel can beat nVidia's high end (e.g. RTX 3090) on performance benchmarks, not just the bullshit 'bang for buck' metric.
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Wake me up when a nVidia card can run without crashes or at least artifacts, requiring a proprietary driver that's 3 kernel versions incompatible, dropping support for cards 2.5 years old, not risk the card starting a fire inside your computer, etc.
That's why they're buying ARM: Mali, while crap, at least kind-of-works (due to the community's hard work of reverse-engineering, despite outright effort by the manufacturers to frustrate that), thus nVidia craves a working GPU.
Performance on little gamer Johnny'
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>> Wake me up when a nVidia card can run without crashes or at least artifacts,
Are you using noveau?
I've been using Linux for at least 20 years, and in that time nearly always with nVidia GPUs. Intentionally. Because the only time I've ever had problems with crashes or artifacts (or even completely unsupported cards) are with ATI/AMD official drivers, or nouveau.
I swear to god nVidia's own drivers have always worked for me seamlessly, across many generations of nVidia GPUs.
Screw Intel and Microsoft! (Score:2)
Moldova declares war on China (Score:2)
Hands up everyone who thinks of Intel when discussing good graphics performance.