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Can't wait to pair my Threadripper with an Intel GPU :D Now NVidia, please release an x64 processor to have a complete mix on the market.

• giancarlostoro 8y ago
  I rather they fix their GPU drivers by open sourcing them, or AMD.
  • implying 8y ago
    AMD's Linux stack is not only completely open source, most of it is in-kernel and maintained by AMD devs.
    • yjftsjthsd-h 8y ago
      That's only for new stuff, right? Older GPUs are still stuck with radeon or wonky proprietary drivers?
      • ahartmetz 8y ago
        AMD's GCN architecture is about 7 years old and fully supported. Open source support for the previous TeraScale architecture is reportedly fairly good too, though no Vulkan.
        • twtw 8y ago
          I thought amdgpu only officially supported GCN 1.2 and later, which is more like 4.5 years old?
        • pjmlp 8y ago
          Pity that to use those I would need to replace my laptop, meanwhile the DirectX 11 driver still works.
    • slezyr 8y ago
      Try to use OpenCL and you will need blobs. It's major pain to use blender(requires OpenCL if you want to finish render today) not long time ago their blob crashed on new versions libdrm.
      • floatboth 8y ago
        The blobs are probably the most stable option right now, but Clover exists (and kinda sucks) and the new cool option is the fully open ROCm stack which does include OpenCL. > requires OpenCL if you want to finish render today honestly, modern CPUs aren't that far behind in Cycles rendering
      • greenpenguin 8y ago
        I'm using RocM OpenCL right now, which I believe is the approved option, or will be. Personally I've not had any issues with it - I can certainly use Blender with it, although the performance right now is so-so (I only have a cheap APU though, so hardly surprising). I don't believe I have any blobs, other than the firmware one, which is true regardless - can you tell me what blobs you mean?
        • slezyr 8y ago
          https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/opencl-amd/ https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/opencl-amd/ this one, part of amdgpu-pro
          • greenpenguin 8y ago
            I can confirm I don't have that installed. I'm using this: https://github.com/RadeonOpenCompute/ROCm-OpenCL-Runtime https://github.com/RadeonOpenCompute/ROCm-OpenCL-Runtime Edit: actually Blender performance is decent, but the kernels take ~10 minutes to compile.
    • gpderetta 8y ago
      My understanding is that the best AMD Vulkan implementation is still the indipendently developed one as AMD took forever to open source their own.
    • ran3824692 8y ago
      No, it requires nonfree firmware to be loaded by the driver.
• techntoke 8y ago
  The advantage of Intel drivers is their support of virtual GPUs which neither AMD or NVIDIA support for consumer graphics cards.
• bpye 8y ago
  There were rumours of Nvidia having an x86 variant of their Denver core but killed it because of licensing. I wonder how true that is. https://semiaccurate.com/2011/08/05/what-is-project-denver-based-on/ https://semiaccurate.com/2011/08/05/what-is-project-denver-b...
• nicoburns 8y ago
  I wonder if nvidia could even compete with a high-end ARM cpu. Windows runs on ARM these days. Server software runs on ARM. So it would "just" be a matter of getting the performance right.