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Re:Pascal GPUs on All Fronts Push Nvidia to New Highs by shmerl on Sunday November 13, 2016 @10:10PM (#12947252)
AMD cares to contribute to Mesa. Nvidia? Not really.
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Re:Pascal GPUs on All Fronts Push Nvidia to New Highs by lmm on Monday November 14, 2016 @09:15AM (#12949889)
NVidia have their own high-quality OpenGL implementation. Isn't that better?
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Re:Pascal GPUs on All Fronts Push Nvidia to New Highs by cosarara97 on Monday November 14, 2016 @09:26AM (#12949946)
Better for whom? The nvidia driver doesn't have proper wayland support, can't work with gallium nine, can't be included in the kernel, and has issues with v-sync.
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Re:Pascal GPUs on All Fronts Push Nvidia to New Highs by emp_zealoth on Monday November 14, 2016 @09:49PM (#12955237)
Yet AMD cards under linux are complete misery

Driver support going away after a few years, random issues, etc

Every single nVidia card I used under linux just worked TM (ofc I'm not "pure" because I really couldn't care less about open vs closed drivers)

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Re:Pascal GPUs on All Fronts Push Nvidia to New Highs by shmerl on Monday November 14, 2016 @07:49PM (#12954732)
Indeed. While radeonsi continues to march forward, Nvidia doesn't rush to address the above. My next card is going to be Vega.
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Re:Pascal GPUs on All Fronts Push Nvidia to New Highs by robert_foss on Monday November 14, 2016 @09:21AM (#12949923)
No.

It is strictly worse. NVidia not only has no interest in having a Mesa driver, but would prefer if they didn't have to compete with Mesa at all.

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