Mesa Support for (RazPi) VideoCore & Mali GPUs
by business_kid from LinuxQuestions.org on (#6NWR9)
There's lots of fuss about CPU power, and every seller of Arm SBCs says their GPU is great. The words for what most of them are talking are not appropriate here!
What is Mesa supporting now? I did search. I read on phoronix how much better the Pi 5 GPU is over the Pi 4. I have the Pi 4, and grab 720p Videos where possible, which it usually plays.
The serious competition is based around the RK3588 SoC (Orange Pi 5, etc.) and with an SoC, there's always the temptation to skimp on GPU speed and capability, to keep the thing within sane temperature limits. Integrated GPUs are inclined to be crap.
I believe Mali support is better than VideoCore, but both of these are only coming online. But information is scarce. I managed to buy myself a GPU with no vertex shaders back in 2007 due to lack of information.
BTW, If anyone has a good guide to the building blocks inside any modern GPU, and their function, post the url.
What is Mesa supporting now? I did search. I read on phoronix how much better the Pi 5 GPU is over the Pi 4. I have the Pi 4, and grab 720p Videos where possible, which it usually plays.
The serious competition is based around the RK3588 SoC (Orange Pi 5, etc.) and with an SoC, there's always the temptation to skimp on GPU speed and capability, to keep the thing within sane temperature limits. Integrated GPUs are inclined to be crap.
I believe Mali support is better than VideoCore, but both of these are only coming online. But information is scarce. I managed to buy myself a GPU with no vertex shaders back in 2007 due to lack of information.
BTW, If anyone has a good guide to the building blocks inside any modern GPU, and their function, post the url.