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AMD's open source drivers on recent are pretty solid, AFAIK, and the proprietary ones don't suck.
by baobrien 9y ago
AMD's open source drivers on recent are pretty solid, AFAIK, and the proprietary ones don't suck.
- baldfat 9y agoAMD had released the most documentation and yet the community loves to pile on AMD. I think there is no company that could have done better than what they did in 2014 Linux Driver announcement https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=amd_catalyst_kernel&num=1 https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=amd_cata...
- Spivak 9y agoBut it has to be recent. If the card you're looking at runs the radeon driver then run for the hills.
- dragontamer 9y agoAMD also has the ROCm commitment going on. All the ROCm drivers are fully open source on GitHub. ROCm doesn't have display drivers, but the compute-drivers are more important for well... compute tasks. (You'll probably be doing development on another machine, transfer code to the ROCm server box and then execute it through SSH or something). So forward looking, one can reasonably expect that AMD's Open Source drivers will be superior. But this only applies to RX 4xx series and newer, and not even to all those cards. (Some cards like RX 550 just don't work right now, despite claimed support on marketing pages).