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Sorry if this question misses the point but how did AMD avoid this issue? Are their drivers open source?
by dcgudeman 6y ago
Sorry if this question misses the point but how did AMD avoid this issue? Are their drivers open source?
- josefx 6y agoAMD started to support the development of the open source driver several years ago by publishing hardware specs. . I am not sure if they switched completely or are still maintaining a closed source driver on the side - I haven't bought AMD cards in years, my last one only "works" with the binary blob. The people working on the NVIDIA open source driver have no official support and were fighting with signed firmware blobs last I heard. I wish them luck, but even on older cards it is more likely to crash your system than render anything.
- ghostpepper 6y agoSingle data point here but I just switched from an NVIDIA GTX 960 (2015 card) to an AMD RX 570 (2017), both using open source drivers, and the performance improvement in Wayland/Sway is huge. My understanding is that even 2015 is too new for nouveau to run with high performance due to something called reclocking, where the card starts up at a minimal clock rate and then it's up to the drivers to reconfigure it for running at the advertised clock.