Nvidia R550 Linux Driver's Open Kernel Modules Performing Well on GeForce GPUs

The userland GL/Vulkan driver is still the same closed blob.

In the kernel driver the difference between the open and closed, is that the open driver has ripped out a chunk of its functionality that on newer nvidia GPUs has been moved to an on-gpu processor (e.g. power management etc).

Do the interfaces for third party GPU drivers even still exist on the ARM version of macOS? The discrete GPU support that Intel Macs had was officially scrapped in the ARM transition, so that driver infrastructure is dead weight as far as Apple is concerned.

Even if it was fully supported on the software stack there are hardware limitations in Apple Silicon that make eGPU impractical from a performance perspective https://www.reddit.com/r/AsahiLinux/comments/132nxv4/comment...

I wish Apple didn't artificially limit functionality to exploit their users, but here we are.