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And yet AMD releases far more of it's specification for its chipsets than Nvidia does (which releases next to none). This is the reason that the AMD open source
by tankenmate 10y ago
And yet AMD releases far more of it's specification for its chipsets than Nvidia does (which releases next to none). This is the reason that the AMD open source drivers are within 10~20% of performance of the closed source drivers on a number of chipsets (not all) whereas on Nvidia chipsets the open source driver is often just to boot a system and get X running enough to install the closed source driver.
- geezerjay 10y ago> And yet AMD releases far more of it's specification for its chipsets than Nvidia does (which releases next to none). That is only relevant if any third-party has any interest in taking up the challenge of developing an alternative driver.
- tankenmate 10y agoAnd the open source drivers that do exist (and are far better than the Nvidia open source drivers) are proof that said third parties exist. So the net take away is that if you are a pragmatic open sourcer then you should buy AMD hardware. And even better support the open source coders who do write these drivers; cash, bug reports, testing, documentation, etc.