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I hope this means their Linux drivers will stop sucking as hard as they do now. I run their closed drivers on a 5870 HD (I know the open ones do 2D just fine,

by muyuu 15y ago

I hope this means their Linux drivers will stop sucking as hard as they do now. I run their closed drivers on a 5870 HD (I know the open ones do 2D just fine, but I need openCL for work) and boy are they crap.

Strom 15y ago
AMD's windows drivers aren't exactly good either. Plenty of known VPU crash bugs that aren't getting fixed, and every now and then a good old BSOD. In fact, as many bitcoin miners know, the linux driver performance is actually higher. There is something wrong with their driver team and/or management.
- franciscoapinto 15y ago
  Take it from someone who uses both OSs with the same card: The Windows ones might not be great, but the GNU/Linux ones are a new dimension of evil. Check my comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3734065 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3734065
runeks 15y ago
This has no impact on their closed drivers. This is patches being released for their open source driver. So it means their open source driver for the 7000 series will stop sucking as hard as it did before ('sucking' meaning that it was non-existent).
- muyuu 15y ago
  If they fully support 3D, CL and all features, this could perfectly mean their closed source drivers are phased out by these new open ones.
wazoox 15y ago
What's wrong with these drivers exactly? I've got two PCs one with a 5450, the other with a 6450, and I didn't encountered any problem. In fact, I had no problem while I had quite a lot of freezes with nVidia previously.
- muyuu 15y ago
  Are you sure you are not using the open source (not made by AMD) ones?
  - adbge 15y ago
    A lot of the work on the open source stack which supports AMD GPUs is done by AMD employees.
  - wazoox 15y ago
    No, I'm using the Catalyst driver, to use 3D. I even play games, on Linux; go figure :)
    - moonchrome 15y ago
      Try Gnome 3/Unity and enjoy the crashing :)
      - deleted 15y ago
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by muyuu 15y ago

Strom 15y ago

AMD's windows drivers aren't exactly good either. Plenty of known VPU crash bugs that aren't getting fixed, and every now and then a good old BSOD. In fact, as many bitcoin miners know, the linux driver performance is actually higher. There is something wrong with their driver team and/or management.

franciscoapinto 15y ago
Take it from someone who uses both OSs with the same card: The Windows ones might not be great, but the GNU/Linux ones are a new dimension of evil. Check my comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3734065 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3734065

runeks 15y ago

This has no impact on their closed drivers. This is patches being released for their open source driver. So it means their open source driver for the 7000 series will stop sucking as hard as it did before ('sucking' meaning that it was non-existent).

muyuu 15y ago
If they fully support 3D, CL and all features, this could perfectly mean their closed source drivers are phased out by these new open ones.

wazoox 15y ago

What's wrong with these drivers exactly? I've got two PCs one with a 5450, the other with a 6450, and I didn't encountered any problem. In fact, I had no problem while I had quite a lot of freezes with nVidia previously.

muyuu 15y ago
Are you sure you are not using the open source (not made by AMD) ones?
- adbge 15y ago
  A lot of the work on the open source stack which supports AMD GPUs is done by AMD employees.
- wazoox 15y ago
  No, I'm using the Catalyst driver, to use 3D. I even play games, on Linux; go figure :)
  - moonchrome 15y ago
    Try Gnome 3/Unity and enjoy the crashing :)
    - deleted 15y ago
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