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Nvidia 470 Drivers for Kepler Still Obliterating Open-Source Alternative

• brokenmachine 5y ago
  I'm out of the loop. Is AMD the way to go for a GPU for Linux nowadays? I want good HDR support/multiple monitors/fan spindown/etc and as open as possible.
  • salawat 5y ago
    Yepper. Nvidia continues to cripple their hardware for anyone bereft of their firmware signing key. All re-clocking and power management is locked behind API's and hardware that will only accept calls from Nvidia signed firmware. Nouveau is pretty much dead in the water due to it. It's why I'm seriously considering not buying another Nvidia card if AMD's GPU compute frameworks can manage to mature a bit more.
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  • soganess 5y ago
    Wile I'm all AMD for GPU compute on linux, there are is one big reason to stick with Nvidia... CUDA. Sure, ROCm is incredible, but it doesn't really solve the problem of software availability. When you see some wizbang library advertising supports GPU acceleration, 9 times out of 10 they just means CUDA. Worse if you need to use both windows and linux as ROCm is linux only.
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