NVIDIA Continues Beating Other Vendors On OpenGL Support

[Calinou]

I always like to hear developers give their point of view. Better then having people on forums talk about Hearsay.

It turns into unwarranted hate too often; see the ?A bad workman always blames his tools.? proverb.

[droidhacker]

The KEY takeaway from this "article" (aka JOKE) is "NVIDIA's binary driver is the clear winner".
In other words, this is all pointless, comes to invalid/incorrect/meaningless conclusions, and as usual, both NVIDIA *and* PHORONIX are the clear LOSERS.

[Temar]

The KEY takeaway from this "article" (aka JOKE) is "NVIDIA's binary driver is the clear winner".
In other words, this is all pointless, comes to invalid/incorrect/meaningless conclusions, and as usual, both NVIDIA *and* PHORONIX are the clear LOSERS.

What's your problem? The topic of the article is "NVIDIA Continues Beating Other Vendors On OpenGL Support". You might not like it, but it is what it is. The only vendor providing fast and stable OpenGL 4.4 support is Nvidia.

[b15hop]

No documentation and a binary driver. That should be very obvious.

It's still a pretty damn good binary driver. If nVidia did supply documentation, then AMD would be left in the dark. I guess a better wayland driver would be in the pipeline too.

If AMD wants to show nVidia up, they should help Wayland development.

[bridgman]

I guess a better wayland driver would be in the pipeline too. If AMD wants to show nVidia up, they should help Wayland development.

Do you mean by working on the open source drivers which support Wayland/Weston today, or by actually working on Wayland ?

[b15hop]

Do you mean by working on the open source drivers which support Wayland/Weston today, or by actually working on Wayland ?

Possibly both. Though initially I meant the (open source) drivers.

[b15hop]

Do you mean by working on the open source drivers which support Wayland/Weston today, or by actually working on Wayland ?

What is the status of AMD supporting Wayland anyway?

[brad0]

It's still a pretty damn good binary driver. If nVidia did supply documentation, then AMD would be left in the dark. I guess a better wayland driver would be in the pipeline too.

If AMD wants to show nVidia up, they should help Wayland development.

But its still a binary driver. AMD wouldn't be left in the dark, that doesn't even make any sense.

NVIDIA is the company that needs to show up AMD / Intel. NVIDIA isn't playing along.

[brad0]

What is the status of AMD supporting Wayland anyway?

Huh? Wayland already runs on AMD / Intel hardware.

[brad0]

What's your problem? The topic of the article is "NVIDIA Continues Beating Other Vendors On OpenGL Support". You might not like it, but it is what it is. The only vendor providing fast and stable OpenGL 4.4 support is Nvidia.

And the title is completely irrelevant when its a binary driver. Its typical sensationalistic crap from Michael.