Is SR-IOV The Future Of PC Gaming? | Level One Techs

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Will SR-iov bring about the year of the Linux desktop?

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This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://level1techs.com/video/sr-iov-future-pc-gaming
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@wendell any news on SR-IOV in the AMD Linux driver? IIRC it was hinted multiple times that it might come eventually.

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next gen possibly maybe we hope. was supposed to be in vega drivers but got ripped out before release so it might come or it will never come.

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You can’t use SR-IOV with a Windows 95 Virtual Machine, because modern GPUs don’t have Windows 95 drivers.

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Not a chance.

Is SR-IOV The Future Of PC Gaming?

Unlikely.

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I think sr-iov is gonna be the future of retro gaming. We already have games that have major problems running on windows 10, so sr-iov’d xp would be a nice option to play the games.

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Maybe, but that’s likely a small market.

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Never said anything about market size.

I also think we will see companies take advantage of it in a non-centralized vdi way, kinda like all those virtualization videos Linus puts out.

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Wendell, Make the tutorial already!!!

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When Wendell said “may bring the year of Linux desktop”, in my head:

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It’s not ready yet, although, I do wanna get my hands on some sr-iov supporting hardware and play around with it.

Too expensive tho.

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but now is the future
the video is from the past… are we there yet?

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My Motherboard’s Intel Chipset SAS controller I just found out has SR-IOV. I just don’t know how to use it.

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:joystick::monkey:

So this thing would allow running all devices with any device?

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Can someone explain how you would use it?

The physical ports would / would not work when there is a consumer card that supports sr-iov?
How would you control what gets sent to the physical port to the monitor?

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I am curious what prompted you to make this video. Is this subject related to the teased LTT collab video? I know sr-iov is something you have discussed before, but still it seems like an odd thing to make a video about, seemingly off-the-cuff, while you are in the car, unless recent events/activities brought up the topic.

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SR-IOV makes my toes curls.

I did not realise it was such a lucrative market in the corporate world. AMD and Nvidia guard it like goblins.

Well over a year ago I was jumping up and down about it and Virgil 3D GPU project.

AMD released the PRO cards and still did not enable it.

Im like Wendell and think the world will release great things but I am losing hope it will happen…Because reasons :frowning:

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I think the problem with the makers enabling it on consumer gear is that they fear corporations will abandon the high end stuff for the cheaper hardware.

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They could totally limit it to 2-3 GPUs instead of the normal 16-32 that you see on the high end.

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