It’s the same with Intel, but the users are more exposed to the inner workings since it’s not a secret. A graphics driver such that nVidia releases actually has a bunch of different drivers within it, not just one. I’ve tried to learn what the real deal is with the many different Intel driver bits that are around. This led to the famous image of Linus Torvalds giving a gesture of an avian variety to nVidia as a whole. It’s nVidia that continues to plow ahead with closed source everything, refusing to cooperate with open-source devs, making the nVidia open drivers pretty close to unusable for many GPUs.
With Intel, there are no closed source drivers… all of the work Intel does to create drivers is open source, and I think that has been true of AMD (graphics) as well for a while too. With a closed-source driver like the ones offered by nVidia, everything is included in the downloadable driver package. There is a lot of misinformation out there about the various driver bits. For devices that are plugged into the laptop’s HDMI or other graphics port, those may be connected directly to the dGPU without going through the Intel iGPU.įor Intel graphics users, the situation can be confusing. This is the usual configuration for nVidia laptops while using the laptop display. The G3 also has an nVidia dGPU (discrete GPU), which uses Optimus (Windows) or Prime (Linux) technology to deliver rendered frames across the PCIE bus to be displayed by the Intel iGPU (integrated GPU). Intel graphics, though, I do have a bit of experience with, as my Swift and my G3 (Dell) both use it. It’s probably nice for AMD graphics users too, but I haven’t seen that, so I know very little about it.
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