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AMD Radeon PRO W7700 Launches As $999 GPU With Fully Open-Source Upstream Linux Drivers
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Originally posted by schmidtbag View PostWhen comparing the W7900 to the 7900XTX, the only difference I could find is VRAM quantity. Traditionally, AMD's pro cards would have significantly better FP64 performance but in this case they appears to be the same.
Radeon Pro W7700 (Navi 32) - 0.884 fp64 TFLOPS
Same memory & cache sizes, less bandwidth, lesser CUs with 2x price.​
This is fail without Pro drivers.
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Originally posted by Panix View PostDoes AMD have any support at all in video work/productivity (in Linux)? I mean, if you compare to Nvidia/CUDA?
Jumping through burning hoops:
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Michael: the W7700 enjoys fully upstream and working open-source Linux graphics driver support for launch day
Title: Fully Open-Source Upstream Linux Drivers
So it doesn't mean there is anything different about the hardware compared to other AMD lineups in terms of open-sourceness?
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Originally posted by peterdk View PostI was expecting also a bit of a comparison with the non Pro cards. What makes these cards Pro and is it useful for let's say Blender usage?
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Originally posted by ElectricPrism View Post
What exactly does that mean? MESA?
So it doesn't mean there is anything different about the hardware compared to other AMD lineups in terms of open-sourceness?
For example, in the digital forensics industry you (are supposed to) have a set procedure for validating your results each time something significant changes in your system stack. That takes time, but the alternative is saavy lawyers may be able to successfully attack your results if you didn't do your due diligence the last time Debian (as an example) pushed out a kernel or glibc update to stable. Dead box forensics usually has nothing to do with GPUs, but it's offered as an example of what at least one industry (should) be doing and why updates can legitimately be slow paced.
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