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> GPU drivers still perform worse for my card Which GPU?

AnIdiotOnTheNet 8y ago
nVidia GTX 1080ti In addition to the performance degradation, nVidia and the kernel maintainers don't currently get along so I'd also have to deal with that.
- craftyguy 8y ago
  Ah, yes. nvidia is a thorn. In other news, the AMD and Intel drivers are as good as, if not better, than their windows counterparts!
  - AnIdiotOnTheNet 8y ago
    Shame their hardware isn't as good. Especially Intel's.
  - Karunamon 8y ago
    Legitimately asking; does AMD still do that thing where they unceremoniously drop support for an older card on newer kernels - so you do a apt-get upgrade at some point and reboot to a black screen, and your options are either never upgrade your kernel or get a new GPU?
  - wbond 8y ago
    This, unfortunately is not as true as I wish it was. I bought an RX 560 and tried to install Ubuntu 18.04. It could not propery drive my 4k display that uses DP 1.2 MST. That display has been working fine with a few different cards on Mac and Windows since 2014 when I bought it. I even tried the AMD pro drivers. Granted, the open source nvidia drivers couldn’t do it with a 1030 on 18.04 either, but the proprietary ones had no issue. edit: I should note, the RX 560 runs fanless up to 60c on Windows, but the fans always spin on Linux.
    - craftyguy 8y ago
      I have no problems running my RX 580 with the amdgpu driver and recent versions of Mesa.. If I had to guess, Ubuntu 18.04 has some archaic versions of both the kernel and userspace drivers.
      - wbond 8y ago
        Do you have a 4K display that requires DP 1.2 MST? I tried the latest proprietary amdgpu-pro drivers also. I even bought the RX 560 because some other Linux users assured me the AMD Linux drivers were excellent. My post here is to help other people so they can make a more informed choice in the future.
    - mjevans 8y ago
      It seems that support existed in KDE/Plasma workspaces in late 2014. https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=MTg2NTY https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=MTg2NTY Though if you follow the DP MST keyword there's still some corner cases being polished... https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=search&q=DP%20MST https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=search&q=DP%20MST https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=DRM-Misc-Next-4.21-1 https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=DRM-Misc... The Mesa drivers Ubuntu (and Debian, and many other distros) provide CAN be rather old. As you mentioned Ubuntu, follow the directions here to have a stack that's as updated as possible. https://github.com/ValveSoftware/Proton/wiki/Requirements https://github.com/ValveSoftware/Proton/wiki/Requirements I also tend to like checking Arhc Linux support page, but it doesn't seem to be helpful for this issue: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Radeon https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Radeon

nVidia GTX 1080ti In addition to the performance degradation, nVidia and the kernel maintainers don't currently get along so I'd also have to deal with that.

craftyguy 8y ago
Ah, yes. nvidia is a thorn. In other news, the AMD and Intel drivers are as good as, if not better, than their windows counterparts!
- AnIdiotOnTheNet 8y ago
  Shame their hardware isn't as good. Especially Intel's.
- Karunamon 8y ago
  Legitimately asking; does AMD still do that thing where they unceremoniously drop support for an older card on newer kernels - so you do a apt-get upgrade at some point and reboot to a black screen, and your options are either never upgrade your kernel or get a new GPU?
- wbond 8y ago
  This, unfortunately is not as true as I wish it was. I bought an RX 560 and tried to install Ubuntu 18.04. It could not propery drive my 4k display that uses DP 1.2 MST. That display has been working fine with a few different cards on Mac and Windows since 2014 when I bought it. I even tried the AMD pro drivers. Granted, the open source nvidia drivers couldn’t do it with a 1030 on 18.04 either, but the proprietary ones had no issue. edit: I should note, the RX 560 runs fanless up to 60c on Windows, but the fans always spin on Linux.
  - craftyguy 8y ago
    I have no problems running my RX 580 with the amdgpu driver and recent versions of Mesa.. If I had to guess, Ubuntu 18.04 has some archaic versions of both the kernel and userspace drivers.
    - wbond 8y ago
      Do you have a 4K display that requires DP 1.2 MST? I tried the latest proprietary amdgpu-pro drivers also. I even bought the RX 560 because some other Linux users assured me the AMD Linux drivers were excellent. My post here is to help other people so they can make a more informed choice in the future.
  - mjevans 8y ago
    It seems that support existed in KDE/Plasma workspaces in late 2014. https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=MTg2NTY https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=MTg2NTY Though if you follow the DP MST keyword there's still some corner cases being polished... https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=search&q=DP%20MST https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=search&q=DP%20MST https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=DRM-Misc-Next-4.21-1 https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=DRM-Misc... The Mesa drivers Ubuntu (and Debian, and many other distros) provide CAN be rather old. As you mentioned Ubuntu, follow the directions here to have a stack that's as updated as possible. https://github.com/ValveSoftware/Proton/wiki/Requirements https://github.com/ValveSoftware/Proton/wiki/Requirements I also tend to like checking Arhc Linux support page, but it doesn't seem to be helpful for this issue: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Radeon https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Radeon