AMD open sourced their drivers so everything just works, while Nvidia drivers have to be built against your system and Nvidia refused to supply proper desktop drivers for years (EGLStreams vs GBM).
The downside of AMD’s approach is it has to trickle down which depending on what distribution you use can take weeks to a year and it normally takes a couple iterations to get everything working nicely. Which basically expect the 6800 XT to work brilliantly but the 7300 to be flakey for a bit.
My favourite bit is I owned a few Athlon 5300 APU and 5 years after they were released AMD were still adding performance improvements to them.
Yeah see, it’s really not. Perhaps if you’re only interested in gaming, you might think that way, but Nvidia’s GPU’s are just plain better at rendering and AI tasks. It doesn’t matter to most people if the drivers are open source or not.
See its the opposite in Linux land.
AMD open sourced their drivers so everything just works, while Nvidia drivers have to be built against your system and Nvidia refused to supply proper desktop drivers for years (EGLStreams vs GBM).
The downside of AMD’s approach is it has to trickle down which depending on what distribution you use can take weeks to a year and it normally takes a couple iterations to get everything working nicely. Which basically expect the 6800 XT to work brilliantly but the 7300 to be flakey for a bit.
My favourite bit is I owned a few Athlon 5300 APU and 5 years after they were released AMD were still adding performance improvements to them.
I just wanted to add that, like most things in Linux, it depends. Some things are easier in some distros and some applications etc…
I find trying to use ROCm as an example, far more of a pain on arch, and have to wait until someone figures out the problems I can’t dive into.
I know it’s anecdotal, but I just wanted to give more perspective.
Yeah see, it’s really not. Perhaps if you’re only interested in gaming, you might think that way, but Nvidia’s GPU’s are just plain better at rendering and AI tasks. It doesn’t matter to most people if the drivers are open source or not.