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Aren't AMD drivers open source for linux?

by arein3 3y ago

mtlmtlmtlmtl 3y ago
No. Not the fully featured ones. Also, the way they've dragged their feet on this for decades, and still do. Doesn't inspire confidence.
- arein3 3y ago
  When I will buy the next laptop of videocard, I'll have a look at intel gpus and linux driver situation. On my laptop I have disabled the NVidia GPU on linux because of the drivers, and use the AMD integrated GPU. Hope Intel will prioritise open source GPU drivers in the future, if they will do that sincerely it will win goodwill from me and hopefully from the community as well.
  - mtlmtlmtlmtl 3y ago
    The open source ones should be fine for a laptop APU. Certainly alot better than whatever the hell Nvidia think they're doing... But yeah, for fancier features like OpenCL, Vulkan, raytracing, you'd have to use amdgpu "pro" drivers which includes many proprietary parts. Intel are definitely committed to providing open source Linux drivers for the gpus, at least based on past behaviour. They've had open source drivers for the iGPUs pretty much since the beginning(2010), IIRC. My last two desktops actually didn't have dGPUs at all because I couldn't be bothered, and I'm not much of a gamer. But now GPUs are too important for many other things, so I'm very happy that Intel got into it. And they didn't disappoint with drivers again really. Though it did take some time to get really sorted, mostly because they had a lot of driver tech debt to sort out on all platforms. So drivers have been shifty all around, but now they're quite stable.
    - PlutoIsAPlanet 3y ago
      You don’t need to use the pro drivers for Vulcan, in fact the open source RADV driver typically has better gaming performance and compatibility than the pro package.
      - arein3 3y ago
        If you are on linux you are happy that the game runs, you don't care about the 10% more fps you could get with the competitor GPU. Since graphic cards do more than rasterization and lighting, it is very important to have a serious GPU with open source drivers, so that all the other open source projects related to ML can do more. I suppose my next GPU will be from intel (never thought I would say good things about them, after they almost killed the x86 cpus).

Aren't AMD drivers open source for linux?

by arein3 3y ago

Aren't AMD drivers open source for linux?

No. Not the fully featured ones. Also, the way they've dragged their feet on this for decades, and still do. Doesn't inspire confidence.

arein3 3y ago
When I will buy the next laptop of videocard, I'll have a look at intel gpus and linux driver situation. On my laptop I have disabled the NVidia GPU on linux because of the drivers, and use the AMD integrated GPU. Hope Intel will prioritise open source GPU drivers in the future, if they will do that sincerely it will win goodwill from me and hopefully from the community as well.
- mtlmtlmtlmtl 3y ago
  The open source ones should be fine for a laptop APU. Certainly alot better than whatever the hell Nvidia think they're doing... But yeah, for fancier features like OpenCL, Vulkan, raytracing, you'd have to use amdgpu "pro" drivers which includes many proprietary parts. Intel are definitely committed to providing open source Linux drivers for the gpus, at least based on past behaviour. They've had open source drivers for the iGPUs pretty much since the beginning(2010), IIRC. My last two desktops actually didn't have dGPUs at all because I couldn't be bothered, and I'm not much of a gamer. But now GPUs are too important for many other things, so I'm very happy that Intel got into it. And they didn't disappoint with drivers again really. Though it did take some time to get really sorted, mostly because they had a lot of driver tech debt to sort out on all platforms. So drivers have been shifty all around, but now they're quite stable.
  - PlutoIsAPlanet 3y ago
    You don’t need to use the pro drivers for Vulcan, in fact the open source RADV driver typically has better gaming performance and compatibility than the pro package.
    - arein3 3y ago
      If you are on linux you are happy that the game runs, you don't care about the 10% more fps you could get with the competitor GPU. Since graphic cards do more than rasterization and lighting, it is very important to have a serious GPU with open source drivers, so that all the other open source projects related to ML can do more. I suppose my next GPU will be from intel (never thought I would say good things about them, after they almost killed the x86 cpus).