Intel Has Developed a Super Fast Linux Software Rasterizer Called OpenSWR | Linux Today

Intel Has Developed a Super Fast Linux Software Rasterizer Called OpenSWR

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Marius Nestor
Oct 21, 2015

OpenSWR has been engineered from the ground up to act as a highly scalable and high-performance software rasterizer and driver that can interact with Mesa3D. The developers, who are part of a different team than the one responsible for the well-known Intel i965 graphics driver, dubbed OpenSWR as a software GPU.

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Marius Nestor

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