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Originally posted by RBilettess View Post
And those drivers were good for 3D games? I remember a terrible experience with X-COM: Enemy Unknown, so I switched to Nvidia and live was suddenly good for me.
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Originally posted by DanL View Post
"Half the time" means you and/or your distro were doing it wrong, or you're greatly exaggerating.
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Originally posted by blacknova View Post
I'd vote for distro, had the same experience with nvidia driver on Fedora. And this is exactly why I don't have Fedora on laptop with nvidia gpu anymore. I think it was around Fedora 29-30 time, when almost every kernel updated have broken nvidia's driver, annoying as hell.
btw. Wayland on intel igpu is so much smoother and snappier than NVIDIAS X11 implementation.
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Originally posted by zxy_thf View PostF@H is not the right metric.
Everybody knows OpenCL is still experimental in Mesa.
Plus the support for the current hardware (Navi) and current distributions (Ubuntu 20.04) always comes very late.
Looking at the soon to be released Ubuntu 20.04, ROCm is not even installable since it still depends on Python 2.
Very disappointing.
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Originally posted by TemplarGR View Post
What? AMD had decent opensource drivers since early 2010s dude. When the GTX 970 came out, AMD drivers were good enough. Now they are very good, and during the next one-two years they will surpass Nvidia in almost everything.
It is just that people buy what brand they perceive as being quality. It doesn't matter if it really is, what matters is that they believe it is. People are morons, and that's a fact. It makes sense that most don't know how to shop. If people were intelligent Apple wouldn't exist in 2020.
I am back on AMD though, and things do have improved.
I do remember building an all amd pc though, and because of the driver state on Linux, regretting this.
Phenom II x4 , hd5750.
When steam game to Linux, nvidia had almost right away well performing drivers for Linux.
That took amd over a year longer. Pretty sure they lost allot of Linux customers because of it.
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Originally posted by jacob View PostI used to have Nvidia on both desktop and laptop and absolutely hated it. Kernel upgrades would break the driver half the time, suspend/resume simply never worked, let's not even talk about Wayland support. One day I got enough, I took the Nvidia card out of my desktop PC, literally thrown it in the bin and bought an AMD one. Shortly after that I sold my laptop and bought one with Intel graphics. Never looked back.
Currently I'm using a Thinkpad T470 with intel graphics and no hybrid stuff, and that's much nicer. Even while the battery is smaller it lasts longer than my old machine did most of the time.
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Originally posted by Tuxee View Post
It works quite stable on my Ubuntu 18.04 with a 5.3 kernel and kisak's Mesa PPA. It also works quite well on 20.04 with mainline 5.5 and 5.6 kernel - the stock 5.4 kernel on 20.04 slaughters the FPS for example in Rise of the Tomb Raider. "Quite well" means: Occasionally the boot process stalls (it eventually boots to the desktop but it can take minutes) - the reasons seems to be obtaining the display information from my two screens; powerplay also leaves traces every now and then in the syslog. When running a 5.5/5.6 kernel with the distro's mesa 20.0 on 20.04 I get heavy artifacts and after a while a crash when running War Thunder with Vulkan - this doesn't happen with kisak's mesa on the 18.04 setup. As for OpenGL: When sticking to the mesa drivers of distros and PPA there is none. ROCm doesn't support Navi and the OpenCL packages have to be pulled from the proprietary AMD drivers.
Yes, you get it working. But it has this "air of uncertainty", it's frustrating and definitely nothing an inexperienced user will be able to do. OTOH (speaking of Ubuntu): Click the checkbox for "proprietary drivers" and your NVidia card will "just work" (at least as good as it gets on Linux - which was pretty much flawless for my GTX660, GTX960 and GTX1060). Finally: An RTX2060 Super is in the very same price range as an RX5700XT - so even the hardware might be slightly in favor of NVidia. I will give Manjaro on an extra partition a try once I have migrated from 18.04 to 20.04 (I also have to work on this machine) - maybe it's less unnerving there. But It rather hardware hop than distro hop.
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