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		Rohansi 13 days ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Tiny Core Linux: a 23 MB Linux distro with graphic... > NVIDIA GPU drivers are typically around 800M-1.5G. They also pack in a lot of game-specific optimizations for whatever reason. Could likely be a lot smaller without those.

monocasa 13 days ago [–]

Even the open source drivers without those hacks are massive. Each type of card has its own almost 100MB of firmware that runs on the card on Nvidia.

jsheard 13 days ago | [–]

That's 100MB of RISC-V code, believe it or not, despite Nvidias ARM fixation.

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