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This is Alyssa Resenzweig. She reverse-engineered Apple's M1 GPU with no public documentation and also developed an open-source Linux driver. (programming.dev)

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[–] DaPorkchop_@lemmy.ml 2 points 2 days ago

The open-source NVK driver in Mesa has gotten quite a lot of attention over the past couple years, unfortunately it will probably never be competitive with the proprietary driver on older hardware (Pascal (10xx series) and older) because those GPUs require a proprietary firmware blob in order to increase the GPU clock speeds.