Re:Nvidia’s Integration Dreams
by Macha on Tuesday September 15, 2020 @03:15PM
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I'm replying to the parent comment about AMD pre-open-source drivers. So we're already 5 years ago.
I had my Linux install in a VM for a number of years because fglrx was an aggravating experience (unstable, often broke on kernel updates) to use and radeon had abysmal performance on my 290x. To the point that my laptops 540m (on nouveau) would outperform the 290x under linux.
I still have that 290x in one of my systems, and since amdgpu supported it it has been a very pleasant experience. But even that took a while as they started with 3xx and supported the 4xx cards before going back for the 2xx cards.
I had my Linux install in a VM for a number of years because fglrx was an aggravating experience (unstable, often broke on kernel updates) to use and radeon had abysmal performance on my 290x. To the point that my laptops 540m (on nouveau) would outperform the 290x under linux.
I still have that 290x in one of my systems, and since amdgpu supported it it has been a very pleasant experience. But even that took a while as they started with 3xx and supported the 4xx cards before going back for the 2xx cards.