Personally, I do prefer to avoid the headaches from day 1, so it's AMD or Intel.
Same thing with a GTX 760 (currently using v390.42) on Gentoo: I kept that server running multiple times for many weeks at a time and never had crashes/weird things happening while doing GPU-mining, playing or just having the GPU idle while using the CPU.
As well with setting things up, I always just replaced the old card with the new one and that was it.
>>a server and a media center will do fine even without proprietary drivers...
Honestly: not sure (never tried). My big question mark involving the GPU frequency scaling (maybe now an issue only with "Nouveau"?) when using video filters (e.g. framerate sync and/or nice upscaling filters).
"What are you smoking" is a US colloquialism that means that one's statement is so nonsensical that the most logical explanation is that the speaker was smoking marijuana at the time the statement was made (because the implied alternative is that the speaker is crazy or quite daft).
'When disagreeing, please reply to the argument instead of calling names. "That is idiotic; 1 + 1 is 2, not 3" can be shortened to "1 + 1 is 2, not 3."'
This comment can be shortened to eliminate the first sentence, which is needlessly rude.
US colloquialisms are perfectly appropriate on this site.
And funded by a Brit :-)
Honestly, that's not how today's world works. Sites like Reddit and HN obviously have an international audience. It is not meant for people from tech-centric U.S. cities, but rather to be a sort of sales channel for YC, which BTW has well-known companies founded by non-Americans on its list, such as Gitlab, Stripe etc.
> on US hardware and software
Really? Are you sure there's not a line of free/open-source in there that's written by a non American? It runs on Linux, I presume, who's creator is Finnish and there are many non-U.S. contributors. If there's NGINX somewhere in the pipeline, now you're got some Kazakhstani/Russian code in there. If any part was ever touched by a JetBrains IDE, more evil Russians were involved etc.
Please keep the nationalistic rhetoric down.
P.S. Did you know that paper is a Chinese technology? Yeah, the same Chinese who keep the U.S. down by hyping climate change! I hope you're not using it! \s
Who currently lives and works in the United States, last I checked.
Not to say I disagree with your point, of course; just pointing out the irony of condemning someone for putting undue emphasis on a particular nation's contributions to something while inadvertently doing the same in the process.
'When disagreeing, please reply to the argument instead of calling names. "That is idiotic; 1 + 1 is 2, not 3" can be shortened to "1 + 1 is 2, not 3."'
This comment can be shortened to eliminate the first sentence, which is needlessly rude.
Because( no offense to the nouveau guys, you do great job, all things considered) but the open source one is in pretty bad shape and that is completely the fault of Nvidia.
Having to extra compile their driver (that does not conform to kernel standards) delivers a subpar experience for Linux users and taints the kernel. If they don't care about Linux users and help develop the open source driver, they I don't see any reason for buying their hardware. I rather spend it on hardware manufacturers that try to support me as a customer.
Sounds like things are much better these days.
If I build another PC, I'm going to very strongly prefer an AMD card.
There is unfortunately a little boot issue currently (amdgpu conflicts with the EFI framebuffer, so when booting with UEFI you have to turn efifb off, resulting in no display after the bootloader and until the GPU driver loads). But other than that, I'm very happy with amdgpu & Mesa.
There's regular display corruption and flickering on the desktop, most significantly on the second display.
All I need/want is basic 2D composition of the desktop, so maybe their 3D acceleration works better. But there doesn't seem to be any reason to put up with the crappy re-compilation path just to get kinda OK desktop performance with a heap of bugs.
And my god it is fast...
Not in the recent years. The trend has been positive for AMD and negative for Nvidia at least among Linux users for quite some time already.
See: https://www.gamingonlinux.com/index.php?module=statistics&vi...
OpenCL AMD story has been rather flaky until recently, but supposedly ROCm is the most complete and open option there is now. You can also use Vulkan for compute purposes as far as I know. And Vulkan support isn't behind Nvidia in any way.
Some further Vulkan+OpenCL interop is still planned by Khronos.
See https://github.com/KhronosGroup/Vulkan-Ecosystem/issues/42#i...
I will reevaluate both brands for the next switch. I would like to use AMD because of its friendliness/efforts towards open-source, but it has to perform (not "top" but at least "good") & be stable & be silent.
"this" what?
>>As for proof, there are lots of sites..
Pls. post the direct links to the specific pages that allow us to see such a direct comparison or to at least see data which can be compared.
The pay I got was the downgrade of the available GPGPU features, which now requires the Windows drivers for me to actually make use of the DirectX 11 capabilities and accelerated video decoding, as the radeon driver for the APU only covers a subset of what fxgl was capable of.
So yeah, what is the point of supporting AMD again?
Worst Open Source driver? In my universe that might be lima (no offense to the devs, I think freedreno, etnaviv and videocore drivers are a bit better and I don't think there is a PowerVR open source driver yet)
I get why, you have stuff to do and Nvidia performs better, but still it a little annoying.
OpenBSD seems to be the only open source operating system that suggests that you get an AMD card (or use Intel integrated graphics).