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Re:AMD Reveals the Radeon RX 6000 Series, Coming November 18th by gpderetta on Wednesday October 28, 2020 @08:42PM (#24925854)
The significantly better Linux OpenGL drivers are from Mesa, not AMD.
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Re:AMD Reveals the Radeon RX 6000 Series, Coming November 18th by floatboth on Thursday October 29, 2020 @12:19PM (#24932126)
Guess who maintains RadeonSI in Mesa — it's all @amd.com people :)

(Which is not the case for RADV, the Vulkan implementation)

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Re:AMD Reveals the Radeon RX 6000 Series, Coming November 18th by kllrnohj on Wednesday October 28, 2020 @10:06PM (#24926317)
No. Mesa's "drivers" are either a software fallback or support infrastructure for some open-source drivers.

When you're using AMD or Nvidia's proprietary drivers, which are way faster, then you're not using anything interesting from Mesa.

EDIT: Also Mesa's open source Radeon driver came from AMD.

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Re:AMD Reveals the Radeon RX 6000 Series, Coming November 18th by rhn_mk1 on Thursday October 29, 2020 @03:17AM (#24928065)
In the case of AMD, the open-source driver comes from AMD itself. The proprietary driver replaces Mesa, but builds on top of the same kernel portion.
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Re:AMD Reveals the Radeon RX 6000 Series, Coming November 18th by account42 on Monday November 02, 2020 @06:16AM (#24966804)
> When you're using AMD [...] proprietary drivers, which are way faster

Haha, no.

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