Nvidia enables RTX and DLSS for Arm and Linux

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Nvidia has announced a major new update to the capabilities of DLSS and RTX: support for both ARM and Linux. This development was showcased at this week’s Games Developer Conference (GDC), where Wolfenstein: Youngblood and The Bistro demo from the Open Research Content Archive were running on a system consisting of a Mediatek Kompanio ARM SoC (8 cores processor, 6nm) paired with an RTX 3060 graphics card. Additionally, the featured system performed both demos with full support for five key RTX technologies: Global Illumination, Direct Illumination, RTX Memory Utility, DLSS, and Optix Nvidia’s AI-Acceleration Denoiser.

This marks an important step for NVIDIA in expanding system capacity for their proprietary RTX and DLSS technologies and represents the company’s first work in strengthening its relationship with Arm, although its acquisition of Arm is still ongoing and awaiting new regulatory approval. Nvidia’s aspirations for the merger and its results are nothing but lofty. As the company says, “The performance and energy efficiency of Arm processors featuring Nvidia technologies can open up a whole new class of PC.” As Arm continues its assault on the established x86 architecture, Nvidia is looking to carve out an ecosystem that is truly ready to take on Intel and AMD in their x86 territory: gaming.

Wolfenstein: Youngblood running on Arm with RTX enabled.

Wolfenstein: Youngblood running on Arm with RTX enabled. (Image credit: Nvidia)

The demos further illustrate Nvidia’s RTX and DLSS compatibility with Linux and Arm and the strength of the SDK itself, given the use of two completely different renderers. Of course, this is only one step in the aspirations of the Green Team. Nvidia is looking to eventually sell gaming systems powered by Arm and Nvidia, either through GeForce graphics integrated into the SoC or associated with a discrete graphics card. And meanwhile, the Linux gaming ecosystem has just won a major battle for its relevance in today’s x86-dominated market.

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