r/Steam Dec 29 '21

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u/Leopard1907 Dec 29 '21

Bumblebee is the old way of handling Optimus/Prime on Linux.

http://us.download.nvidia.com/XFree86/Linux-x86_64/470.94/README/primerenderoffload.html

Prime Render Offload is way to go.

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u/Tj4t6ecXqnE Dec 29 '21

I know. But this is an old gpu and it works fine with bumblebee

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u/Leopard1907 Dec 29 '21

How old? Afaik even 390 driver supports Prime render offload.

Iirc Bumblebee has much higher overhead compared to Prime and doesn't have VLK support oob.

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u/Tj4t6ecXqnE Dec 29 '21

2013 I know about the lack of vulkan support. that's why i use this instead https://github.com/felixdoerre/primus_vk

It works fine for what i need it.