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To be fair to AMD they did provide documentation to the open source community and paid engineers to work on open source projects. The same could not be said of
by flyscope 14y ago
To be fair to AMD they did provide documentation to the open source community and paid engineers to work on open source projects. The same could not be said of the other major discrete GPU vendor Nvidia (who have only now started to make their closed source driver perform well). I've also found the closed source driver for AMD's APU range to be great on linux.
- raverbashing 14y agoThe nVidia proprietary driver usually works ok, it's certainly not "only now" nVidia sells for people running professional (3D) applications on Linux, and their drivers usually outperformed the competition, especially in OpenGL ATI had a lot of problems even with Windows drivers at the beginning. Also, see who's the vendor behind EC2 Cluster GPU: nVidia