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> AMD's stability (on linux at least) is pretty poor. Have you had any concrete issues recently? This may be one of these things where public perception change
by nhaehnle 11y ago
> AMD's stability (on linux at least) is pretty poor.
Have you had any concrete issues recently? This may be one of these things where public perception changes slowly, unfortunately.
- wyldfire 11y agoYes, I have. :( I believe that they may be improving, but in general I have seen far fewer functionality problems from NVIDIA than AMD. Generation after generation, it seems to replay itself.
- nhaehnle 11y agoCan you give details? If it's with the open driver stack, I may be able to help. Contact me at username at gmail if you like.
- bainsfather 11y agoYes (3 months ago). Setting up opencl on AMD card on Ubuntu is a nightmare for me (I have done it 3 times over the past 2 years, and failed 1 time). Recently I setup CUDA on Ubuntu (with an Nvidia card), and everything just worked. (I'm using the manufacturers' drivers). The difference was amazing. I get the distinct impression that Nvidia try hard to make things work easily for you, whilst AMD just do not care (at least for Linux). Relatedly, AMD's website has an 'OpenCL Optimization Guide' [0] (which you really need in order to use your GPU effectively) - for 2 years now, it has been out of date by 1 year or more, not updated to discuss the latest hardware. [0] http://developer.amd.com/tools-and-sdks/opencl-zone/amd-accelerated-parallel-processing-app-sdk/opencl-optimization-guide/#50401334_pgfId-487709 http://developer.amd.com/tools-and-sdks/opencl-zone/amd-acce...