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Re:AMD Reports Q4/FY 2020 Earnings: Record Revenues Repeat by dharmab on Wednesday January 27, 2021 @09:39AM (#25928775)
When was the last time you used AMD on Linux? The intree amdgpu driver is so much easier to deal with than the out of tree nvidia driver and gets support for new hardware much faster than the nouveau driver.

There was even a period of about of month last year where nvidia didn’t support the new kernel.

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Re:AMD Reports Q4/FY 2020 Earnings: Record Revenues Repeat by danieldk on Wednesday January 27, 2021 @10:47AM (#25929632)
And when comparing to Intel, which is usually well-supported by Linux: the kernel-side Intel GPU support had several nasty bugs that persisted through the first few 5.x kernel releases leading to graphics lockups.

https://linuxreviews.org/Linux_Kernel_5.5_Will_Not_Fix_The_F...

My Intel NUC8i5BEH would regularly have GPU lockups and it took them several months to fix the issues.

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Re:AMD Reports Q4/FY 2020 Earnings: Record Revenues Repeat by bavell on Wednesday January 27, 2021 @12:33PM (#25931080)
I still get these lockups to this day, even on 5.11 and my i5 6600k. Looking forward to a 5950X when I can find one!
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Re:AMD Reports Q4/FY 2020 Earnings: Record Revenues Repeat by mywittyname on Wednesday January 27, 2021 @12:52PM (#25931363)
How are data centers with large CUDA offerings handling the situation with nVidia driver on Linux? Running them on Windows?
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Re:AMD Reports Q4/FY 2020 Earnings: Record Revenues Repeat by dharmab on Wednesday January 27, 2021 @01:57PM (#25932275)
At my company we run LTS kernels and rebuild the driver ourselves every time we push a kernel update.

On home systems, Arch Linux provides a system to automate the module generation [0], however features like CUDA break sometimes. [1]

[0] https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Dynamic_Kernel_Module_S...

[1] https://archlinux.org/news/nvidia-45528-is-incompatible-with...

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