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What about the open-source drivers? The state of Nouveau (open source Nvidia drivers) is pretty terrible[1], right? The proprietery AMD Catalyst™ (fglrx) drive

What about the open-source drivers? The state of Nouveau (open source Nvidia drivers) is pretty terrible[1], right? The proprietery AMD Catalyst™ (fglrx) drivers are known to be bad[2], but AMDGPU[3] is supposed to be the best, when it comes to open source GPU driver support on Linux, based on what I've read. Better than Nouveau or Nvidia's proprietery blobs. Don't people sometimes buy AMD cards just for its excellent native/open-source driver support? [1] https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=nouveau-410-blob&num=1 https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=nouveau-... [2] https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=openclose-amdnv-2017&num=1 https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=openclos... [3] https://help.ubuntu.com/community/AMDGPU-Driver https://help.ubuntu.com/community/AMDGPU-Driver | https://help.ubuntu.com/community/RadeonDriver https://help.ubuntu.com/community/RadeonDriver

jamesfmilne 9y ago
I'm not arguing that AMD's new open-source drivers appear to be pretty good, but you can't use them on current RHEL 7 since the RHEL kernel is frozen on the 3.10.x line, which locks out a lot of people from using AMD GPU hardware on Linux.
- nbanks 9y ago
  It is possible to compile your own Kernel in Red Hat. You may loose some customer support, but at least everything will be familiar.
microcolonel 9y ago
> People buy AMD cards just for its excellent native/open-source driver support. I can confirm this being my main reason for going with AMD. They have discrete GPUs which meet my performance requirements, and the Mesa-based drivers perform very well, with very few issues (none on my own workloads). There has been a bit of a gap in display output features, specifically FreeSync support, but that's coming along too, and should be at least of "experimental" quality in Linux 4.15.

jamesfmilne 9y ago

I'm not arguing that AMD's new open-source drivers appear to be pretty good, but you can't use them on current RHEL 7 since the RHEL kernel is frozen on the 3.10.x line, which locks out a lot of people from using AMD GPU hardware on Linux.

nbanks 9y ago
It is possible to compile your own Kernel in Red Hat. You may loose some customer support, but at least everything will be familiar.

microcolonel 9y ago

> People buy AMD cards just for its excellent native/open-source driver support. I can confirm this being my main reason for going with AMD. They have discrete GPUs which meet my performance requirements, and the Mesa-based drivers perform very well, with very few issues (none on my own workloads). There has been a bit of a gap in display output features, specifically FreeSync support, but that's coming along too, and should be at least of "experimental" quality in Linux 4.15.