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Re:AMD Announces 307% Increase in Q3 Earnings by danieldk on Wednesday October 25, 2017 @02:05AM (#15547874)
I don't think anyone would say this with any negativity towards the folks who are developing the nouveau driver. Given the circumstances that they are working under (no useful help from the vendor), they have done heroic work.

But I think you are missing the point here and that is: if you want to buy a GPU now for a Linux machine and you don't want to use a big proprietary blob, AMD is by far the best choice, because the amdgpu driver outperforms the nouveau driver.

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Re:AMD Announces 307% Increase in Q3 Earnings by shmerl on Wednesday October 25, 2017 @02:14AM (#15547908)
> if you want to buy a GPU now for a Linux machine and you don't want to use a big proprietary blob, AMD is by far the best choice, because the amdgpu driver outperforms the nouveau driver.

No doubt, I said so explicitly elsewhere in this thread. I.e. that on Linux Nvidia will lose its current dominance.

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