Re:Dell XPS 15 review: A bigger version of the best PC laptop
by revenz on Friday January 29, 2016 @06:28AM
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Anyone know if this will allow GPU-passthrough of the Nvidia GPU? It seems to have most of the requirments
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Re:Dell XPS 15 review: A bigger version of the best PC laptop
by fulafel on Friday January 29, 2016 @06:36AM
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GPU passthrough requires a hardware video output for the discrete GPU. You can go looking through the moaning of Oculus Rift users[1] as they prowl laptops that do this, but it's pretty much unheard of in current standard laptops.
[1] Rift needs better video latency than you get with routing the DGPU output through the IGPU. Apparently there are now some specialized 17" gaming laptops that support a "direct mode" that might allow GPU passthrough to HDMI given software support.