Nvidia 1.0-8XXX Driver Series Preview (Linux)
Phoronix has published a preview on Nvidia's upcoming Release80 driver for Linux but is also giving away some hints for Windows users. Particular interesting is the multithreading support:
Among the Windows features that are expected to make their way into the next official driver release is improved TV-out/HDTV support, vertical sync capabilities, and multi-threading support. Of course what all of you have been waiting to hear, NVIDIA SLI (Scalable Link Interface) Linux support. On top of that, there are some additional features we expect NVIDIA to further develop and bundle into future revisions of its proprietary Linux drivers.
They (Tech Report) had exposed NVIDIA's intentions on creating multi-threaded drivers and with their Windows internal build at the time had experienced between a five to 30% improvement in performance compared against their single-threaded counterpart.
With the ATI R520 cards going to be available immediately upon its early October release, similar to the GeForce 7800GTX initial availability, we suspect NVIDIA will be publicly releasing their Forceware 80 and Linux 1.0-8XXX display drivers a few days prior to ATI's big launch in hopes of hindering ATI's sales.
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