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This article contains information about Intel's GPUs (see Intel Graphics Technology) and motherboard graphics chipsets in table form. In 1982, Intel licensed the NEC μPD7220 and announced it as the Intel 82720 Graphics Display Controller.[1][2]
Intel Graphics Media Accelerator Driver is a graphics driver for Intel GMA based motherboards.This driver is written specifically for Intel Atom processor based systems with the Intel Graphics Media Accelerator 3150. View the README file for installation information and the RELEASE NOTES for driver version details.
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Therefore the Graphic Stack is comprised of:* the opensource X11 display server Xorg, client libraries and utilities developed by the X.org Project,* an OpenGL implementation in the form of the opensource Mesa library,* and illumos kernel drivers for different graphics adapters provided by the gfx-drm gate,* together with the libdrm implementing communication between kernel drivers and user-space components through the Direct Rendering Infrastructure (DRI) protocol.
Intel Graphics Driver is a catch-all name for a variety of drivers for an even bigger variety of graphics cards built right into the CPU that replace stand in for dedicated graphics cards (such as ATI or Nvidia) when those cards are non-functional or more commonly not a part of the computer at all. Drivers are needed for these Intel graphics cards to improve stability and performance as they work with the operating system.
As the above implies a better Intel Graphics Driver will help your Intel graphics card pull more weight. But the effect is frankly small. The drivers are updated frequently and keeping on top of the latest versions is a little cumbersome but important for ensuring that you get the most benefit from your graphics drivers. With and without the latest drivers the actual effect depends but in our testing we experienced no crashes and in some older games a 5per cent to 10per cent increase in frames per second (FPS) making various 2D and 3D games run more smoothly.
This page contains information about Intel's GPUs and motherboard graphics chipsets in table form. In 1982 Intel licensed the NEC µPD7220 and announced it as the Intel 82720 Graphics Display Controller.[1]
The 3D architecture of the GMA 900 was a significant upgrade from the previous Extreme 3D graphics processors. It is a 4 pixel per clock cycle design supporting DirectX 9 pixel shader model 2.0. It operates at a clock rate ranging from 160 to 333 MHz, depending on the particular chipset. At 333 MHz, it has a peak pixel fill-rate of 1332 megapixels per second. However, the architecture still lacks support forhardware transform and lighting and the similar vertex shader technologies.
The 946GZ, Q965, and Q963 chipsets use the GMA 3000 chip.[3][4] The GMA 3000 3D core is very different from the X3000, despite their similar names. It is based more directly on the previous generation GMA 900 and GMA 950 graphics, and belonging to the same "i915" family with them. It has pixel and vertex shaders which only support Shader Model 2.0b features[citation needed], and the vertex shaders are still only software-emulated. In addition, hardware video acceleration such as hardware-based iDCT computation, ProcAmp (video stream independent color correction), and VC-1 decoding are not implemented in hardware. Of the GMA 3000-equipped chipsets, only the Q965 retains dual independent display support. The core speed is rated at 400 MHz with 1.6 Gpixel/s fill rate in datasheets, but was listed as 667 MHz core in the white paper.[5]
Apple removed the 64-bit GMA X3100 drivers later, and thus affected Macs were forced back to the 32-bit kernel despite being 64-bit clean in terms of hardware and firmware. No 64-bit drivers were offered in OS X Lion. Subsequently OS X Mountain Lion dropped 32-bit kernel booting. The combination of these two changes in graphics driver code resulted in many Mac revisions being unable to upgrade to Mountain Lion, as their GPUs cannot be replaced.
FreeBSD 8.0 supports the following Intel graphic chipsets: i810, i810-DC100, i810e, i815, i830M, 845G, 852GM, 855GM, 865G, 915G, 915GM, 945G, 945GM, 965G, 965Q, 946GZ, 965GM,945GME, G33, Q33, Q35, G35, GM45, G45, Q45, G43 and G41 chipsets. In practice, chipsets through 4500MHD are supported with DRM and 3D using FreeBSD 9. Work to integrate GEM and KMS is currently adding support for i-series integrated graphics and improving support for earlier chipsets.
In May 2007, version 2.0 of the driver (xorg-video-intel) was released, which added support for the 965GM chipset. In addition, the 2.0 driver added native video mode programming support for all chipsets from i830 forward. This version added support for automatic video mode detection and selection, monitor hot plug, dynamic extended and merged desktops and per-monitor screen rotation. These features are built into the X.Org 7.3 X server release and will eventually be supported across most of the open source X.Org video drivers.[40] Version 2.1, released in July 2007, added support for the G33, Q33 and Q35 chipsets.[41] G35 is also supported by the Linux driver.[42]
The drivers were mainly developed by Intel and Tungsten Graphics (under contract) since the chipsets' documentation were not publicly available for a long time. In January 2008, Intel released the complete developer documentation for their, at the time, latest chipsets (965 and G35 chipset), allowing for further external developers' involvement.[44][45] In April 2009, Intel released documentation for their newer G45 graphics (including X4500) chipsets.[46] In May 2009, Intel employee Eric Anholt stated Intel was "still working on getting docs for [8xx] chipsets out."[47]
GMA 500, GMA 600, GMA 3600, GMA 3650 are PowerVR based chips incompatible with Intel GenX GPU architecture family. There are no Intel supported FOSS drivers. The current available FOSS drivers (included in Linux 3.3 onwards) only support 2D acceleration (not 3D acceleration).[24]
In November 2009, the Linux Foundation released the details of a new, rewritten Linux driver that would support this chipset and Intel's other upcoming chipsets. The Direct Rendering Manager and X.org parts would be free software, but the 3D component (using Gallium3D) will still be proprietary.[52]
The Solaris open-source community developers provide additional driver support for Intel HD Graphics 4000/2500 graphic-based chipsets (aka Ivy Bridge), OpenGL 3.0/GLSL 1.30, and the new libva/va-apilibrary enabling hardware accelerated video decode for the prevailing coding standards today (MPEG-2, MPEG-4 ASP/H.263, MPEG-4 AVC/H.264, and VC-1/WMV3).
In Windows 8, Aero effects are enabled with VGA compatibility driver via software rendering. There are no native GMA900 drivers available for Windows 8 since XDDM support is removed from this operating system. On GMA900 based laptops with Windows 7, users may experience a serious bug related to the chipset's native backlight control method failing to change brightness, resulting in the brightness becoming stuck on a particular value after driver installation. The bug did not occur when Windows 7 was initially released to the public and is commonly observed after running Windows Update.
Intel has released production version drivers for 32-bit and 64-bit Windows Vista that enable the Aero graphics. Intel introduced Direct X 10 for the X3100 and X3500 GPUs in the Vista 15.9 drivers, though any release of DX10 drivers for the X3000 is uncertain. WDDM 1.1 is supported by X3100 but DXVA-HD is not.
Reviews performed by The Tech Report, by ExtremeTech and by Anandtech all concluded that the AMD's Radeon X1250 integrated graphics solutions based on the AMD 690G chipset was a better choice than the GMA X3000 based on the G965 chipset, especially when considering 3D gaming performance and price.[70][73][74]
Intel HD Graphics is a series of Intel integrated graphics processors introduced in 2010 that are manufactured on the same die as the processor, together forming an accelerated processing unit.
A free and open-source graphics device driver is software that controls computer graphics hardware and supports graphics rendering APIs and is distributed at no cost with openly shared source code. Graphics device drivers are written for specific hardware to work within the context of a specific operating system kernel and to support a range of APIs used by applications to access the graphics hardware. They may also control output to the display, if the display driver is part of the graphics hardware. Most free and open source graphics device drivers are developed via the Mesa project.
All hardware developers provide device drivers for their products over a range of operating systems. But some developers of graphics hardware provide no free and open-source drivers for their hardware and they provide little or no technical documentation to support independent development of free and open-source device drivers for their products. The free and open source device drivers available for hardware with support for independent driver development are generally of much higher quality in terms of completeness, stability, security and performance than drivers for hardware that lack such support.
When applications, such as a 3D game engine or a 3D computer graphics software shunt calculations from the CPU to the GPU, they usually use a special purpose API, like e.g. OpenGL or Direct3D, and do not address the hardware directly (see also Cell (microprocessor)). All the translation from API calls to actual GPU opcodes, is done by the device driver, hence the device driver contains a considerable amount of know-how, and is the constant object of optimization. This takes time and involves considerable financial investments. Thus alone the leakage of source code, not even published under some free license, would give the competition an advantage, by having the own know-how plus the know-how gained by looking at the accumulation of the know-how leaked. Especially potential newcomers to the business of graphic acceleration ASICs would gain a considerable amount of know-how, without bearing the very high costs involved in the development of the know-how.
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Intel Graphics Media Accelerator Driver is a graphics driver for Intel GMA based motherboards.This driver is written specifically for Intel Atom processor based systems with the Intel Graphics Media Accelerator 3150. View the README file for installation information and the RELEASE NOTES for driver version details.
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Therefore the Graphic Stack is comprised of:* the opensource X11 display server Xorg, client libraries and utilities developed by the X.org Project,* an OpenGL implementation in the form of the opensource Mesa library,* and illumos kernel drivers for different graphics adapters provided by the gfx-drm gate,* together with the libdrm implementing communication between kernel drivers and user-space components through the Direct Rendering Infrastructure (DRI) protocol.
Intel Graphics Driver is a catch-all name for a variety of drivers for an even bigger variety of graphics cards built right into the CPU that replace stand in for dedicated graphics cards (such as ATI or Nvidia) when those cards are non-functional or more commonly not a part of the computer at all. Drivers are needed for these Intel graphics cards to improve stability and performance as they work with the operating system.
As the above implies a better Intel Graphics Driver will help your Intel graphics card pull more weight. But the effect is frankly small. The drivers are updated frequently and keeping on top of the latest versions is a little cumbersome but important for ensuring that you get the most benefit from your graphics drivers. With and without the latest drivers the actual effect depends but in our testing we experienced no crashes and in some older games a 5per cent to 10per cent increase in frames per second (FPS) making various 2D and 3D games run more smoothly.
This page contains information about Intel's GPUs and motherboard graphics chipsets in table form. In 1982 Intel licensed the NEC µPD7220 and announced it as the Intel 82720 Graphics Display Controller.[1]
The 3D architecture of the GMA 900 was a significant upgrade from the previous Extreme 3D graphics processors. It is a 4 pixel per clock cycle design supporting DirectX 9 pixel shader model 2.0. It operates at a clock rate ranging from 160 to 333 MHz, depending on the particular chipset. At 333 MHz, it has a peak pixel fill-rate of 1332 megapixels per second. However, the architecture still lacks support forhardware transform and lighting and the similar vertex shader technologies.
The 946GZ, Q965, and Q963 chipsets use the GMA 3000 chip.[3][4] The GMA 3000 3D core is very different from the X3000, despite their similar names. It is based more directly on the previous generation GMA 900 and GMA 950 graphics, and belonging to the same "i915" family with them. It has pixel and vertex shaders which only support Shader Model 2.0b features[citation needed], and the vertex shaders are still only software-emulated. In addition, hardware video acceleration such as hardware-based iDCT computation, ProcAmp (video stream independent color correction), and VC-1 decoding are not implemented in hardware. Of the GMA 3000-equipped chipsets, only the Q965 retains dual independent display support. The core speed is rated at 400 MHz with 1.6 Gpixel/s fill rate in datasheets, but was listed as 667 MHz core in the white paper.[5]
Apple removed the 64-bit GMA X3100 drivers later, and thus affected Macs were forced back to the 32-bit kernel despite being 64-bit clean in terms of hardware and firmware. No 64-bit drivers were offered in OS X Lion. Subsequently OS X Mountain Lion dropped 32-bit kernel booting. The combination of these two changes in graphics driver code resulted in many Mac revisions being unable to upgrade to Mountain Lion, as their GPUs cannot be replaced.
FreeBSD 8.0 supports the following Intel graphic chipsets: i810, i810-DC100, i810e, i815, i830M, 845G, 852GM, 855GM, 865G, 915G, 915GM, 945G, 945GM, 965G, 965Q, 946GZ, 965GM,945GME, G33, Q33, Q35, G35, GM45, G45, Q45, G43 and G41 chipsets. In practice, chipsets through 4500MHD are supported with DRM and 3D using FreeBSD 9. Work to integrate GEM and KMS is currently adding support for i-series integrated graphics and improving support for earlier chipsets.
In May 2007, version 2.0 of the driver (xorg-video-intel) was released, which added support for the 965GM chipset. In addition, the 2.0 driver added native video mode programming support for all chipsets from i830 forward. This version added support for automatic video mode detection and selection, monitor hot plug, dynamic extended and merged desktops and per-monitor screen rotation. These features are built into the X.Org 7.3 X server release and will eventually be supported across most of the open source X.Org video drivers.[40] Version 2.1, released in July 2007, added support for the G33, Q33 and Q35 chipsets.[41] G35 is also supported by the Linux driver.[42]
The drivers were mainly developed by Intel and Tungsten Graphics (under contract) since the chipsets' documentation were not publicly available for a long time. In January 2008, Intel released the complete developer documentation for their, at the time, latest chipsets (965 and G35 chipset), allowing for further external developers' involvement.[44][45] In April 2009, Intel released documentation for their newer G45 graphics (including X4500) chipsets.[46] In May 2009, Intel employee Eric Anholt stated Intel was "still working on getting docs for [8xx] chipsets out."[47]
GMA 500, GMA 600, GMA 3600, GMA 3650 are PowerVR based chips incompatible with Intel GenX GPU architecture family. There are no Intel supported FOSS drivers. The current available FOSS drivers (included in Linux 3.3 onwards) only support 2D acceleration (not 3D acceleration).[24]
In November 2009, the Linux Foundation released the details of a new, rewritten Linux driver that would support this chipset and Intel's other upcoming chipsets. The Direct Rendering Manager and X.org parts would be free software, but the 3D component (using Gallium3D) will still be proprietary.[52]
The Solaris open-source community developers provide additional driver support for Intel HD Graphics 4000/2500 graphic-based chipsets (aka Ivy Bridge), OpenGL 3.0/GLSL 1.30, and the new libva/va-apilibrary enabling hardware accelerated video decode for the prevailing coding standards today (MPEG-2, MPEG-4 ASP/H.263, MPEG-4 AVC/H.264, and VC-1/WMV3).
In Windows 8, Aero effects are enabled with VGA compatibility driver via software rendering. There are no native GMA900 drivers available for Windows 8 since XDDM support is removed from this operating system. On GMA900 based laptops with Windows 7, users may experience a serious bug related to the chipset's native backlight control method failing to change brightness, resulting in the brightness becoming stuck on a particular value after driver installation. The bug did not occur when Windows 7 was initially released to the public and is commonly observed after running Windows Update.
Intel has released production version drivers for 32-bit and 64-bit Windows Vista that enable the Aero graphics. Intel introduced Direct X 10 for the X3100 and X3500 GPUs in the Vista 15.9 drivers, though any release of DX10 drivers for the X3000 is uncertain. WDDM 1.1 is supported by X3100 but DXVA-HD is not.
Reviews performed by The Tech Report, by ExtremeTech and by Anandtech all concluded that the AMD's Radeon X1250 integrated graphics solutions based on the AMD 690G chipset was a better choice than the GMA X3000 based on the G965 chipset, especially when considering 3D gaming performance and price.[70][73][74]
Intel HD Graphics is a series of Intel integrated graphics processors introduced in 2010 that are manufactured on the same die as the processor, together forming an accelerated processing unit.
A free and open-source graphics device driver is software that controls computer graphics hardware and supports graphics rendering APIs and is distributed at no cost with openly shared source code. Graphics device drivers are written for specific hardware to work within the context of a specific operating system kernel and to support a range of APIs used by applications to access the graphics hardware. They may also control output to the display, if the display driver is part of the graphics hardware. Most free and open source graphics device drivers are developed via the Mesa project.
All hardware developers provide device drivers for their products over a range of operating systems. But some developers of graphics hardware provide no free and open-source drivers for their hardware and they provide little or no technical documentation to support independent development of free and open-source device drivers for their products. The free and open source device drivers available for hardware with support for independent driver development are generally of much higher quality in terms of completeness, stability, security and performance than drivers for hardware that lack such support.
When applications, such as a 3D game engine or a 3D computer graphics software shunt calculations from the CPU to the GPU, they usually use a special purpose API, like e.g. OpenGL or Direct3D, and do not address the hardware directly (see also Cell (microprocessor)). All the translation from API calls to actual GPU opcodes, is done by the device driver, hence the device driver contains a considerable amount of know-how, and is the constant object of optimization. This takes time and involves considerable financial investments. Thus alone the leakage of source code, not even published under some free license, would give the competition an advantage, by having the own know-how plus the know-how gained by looking at the accumulation of the know-how leaked. Especially potential newcomers to the business of graphic acceleration ASICs would gain a considerable amount of know-how, without bearing the very high costs involved in the development of the know-how.
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