Re:AMD reckons it can win the high-end GPU battle
by dijit on Sunday February 02, 2020 @05:47AM
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He might not be saying that; but I can.
I have a fair number of machines and I /typically/ buy laptop/desktops with intels' graphics which works wonderfully under linux.
On the occasion I use a descreet graphics card (Quatro M1200, GTX 670) it' usually nvidia, and it works pretty good if you have the proprietary driver installed. (even on FreeBSD).
I did, however, recently build a full AMD machine that I intended to use for linux gaming, I did the most "happy path" thing and installed Ubuntu.
It was a Ryzen 1700x with an AMD R9 390 (old at this point, but it was built when Ryzen just came out) and I genuinely couldn't get 3d Accel working at all.
Games ran like absolute garbage. I ended up installing all kinds of "amd" "amd-pro" and "radeon" drivers which came with various warnings about being out of date or proprietary.. or "this should be in the kernel as FOSS".. but it never worked.
I ended up selling the machine 2 years later.
Contrastly my laptop has hybrid graphics with Nvidia and is still working fine. :(
I have a fair number of machines and I /typically/ buy laptop/desktops with intels' graphics which works wonderfully under linux.
On the occasion I use a descreet graphics card (Quatro M1200, GTX 670) it' usually nvidia, and it works pretty good if you have the proprietary driver installed. (even on FreeBSD).
I did, however, recently build a full AMD machine that I intended to use for linux gaming, I did the most "happy path" thing and installed Ubuntu.
It was a Ryzen 1700x with an AMD R9 390 (old at this point, but it was built when Ryzen just came out) and I genuinely couldn't get 3d Accel working at all. Games ran like absolute garbage. I ended up installing all kinds of "amd" "amd-pro" and "radeon" drivers which came with various warnings about being out of date or proprietary.. or "this should be in the kernel as FOSS".. but it never worked.
I ended up selling the machine 2 years later.
Contrastly my laptop has hybrid graphics with Nvidia and is still working fine. :(