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Old May 8th 17, 07:27 PM posted to alt.comp.hardware
MikeS[_2_]
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Default Intel Atom Co-processor

On 08/05/2017 16:10, philo wrote:
On 05/08/2017 10:05 AM, Paul wrote:

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Still curious though what the co-processor does.


The driver you wanted enables 1080p HD video decoding to be offloaded
from the Atom processor to the Nvidia GPU. Its not a "real" dedicated
co-processor like the floating point math ones of long ago but I guess
the effect is similar.