AMD RDNA 4 – AMD Radeon RX 9000 Series Graphics Cards

Re:AMD RDNA 4 – AMD Radeon RX 9000 Series Graphics Cards by globnomulous on Friday February 28, 2025 @11:36AM (#43207533)

> Both AMD and Intel provide well maintained open-source drivers for many years[1]. Nvidia doesn't. You need to use closed-source drivers with Nvidia in practice.

Is that what this is? https://github.com/NVIDIA/open-gpu-kernel-modules

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Re:AMD RDNA 4 – AMD Radeon RX 9000 Series Graphics Cards by terlisimo on Friday February 28, 2025 @12:08PM (#43207902)

Nvidia drivers are not open source.

Nvidia has open-sourced the kernel module "driver", which recently have been declared stable enough for general consumption.

But the kernel-mode driver is only a small part of what you would call the graphics card driver, and the bulk of it is still very much a proprietary blob.

The true open source driver for NV cards is Noveau[1] which works ok with older cards but is slow to support newest cards and features. Performance, power mgmt and hw acceleration are usually worse or not working at all compared to the official drivers.

[1] https://nouveau.freedesktop.org/FeatureMatrix.html

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Re:AMD RDNA 4 – AMD Radeon RX 9000 Series Graphics Cards by ho_schi on Friday February 28, 2025 @01:51PM (#43208994)

Thanks. All of that is correct.

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Re:AMD RDNA 4 – AMD Radeon RX 9000 Series Graphics Cards by globnomulous on Friday February 28, 2025 @05:05PM (#43212153)

I see. Thanks for explaining.

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Re:AMD RDNA 4 – AMD Radeon RX 9000 Series Graphics Cards by seaal on Friday February 28, 2025 @11:45AM (#43207656)

https://developer.nvidia.com/blog/nvidia-transitions-fully-t...

It has only been a year since NVIDIA actually recommended using the open-source drivers and that's only for Turing (NV160/TUXXX) and newer. It's easier to use my AMD integrated GPU on (wayland) Linux than it is dealing with bugs from NVIDIA drivers.

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