NVIDIA Looks To Have Some Sort Of Open-Source Driver Announcement For 2020

[onicsis]

AMD GPUs work out of the box with most Linux distributions and this is happen now.

It will take time from the moment releasing the specs&docs for their GPUs and the moment when that specs will be implemented in software, to be stable enough and finally adopted by distributions [and and among users' preferences] stable video drivers.
An uncertain future, betting on nVidia [GPUs] on laptops.

[duby229]

I hate how bad drivers kind of hold the reins of Linux back. I sometimes wonder why this has been the case for literally decades. I feel like the time should come when one day, linux drivers are better than windows drivers. Then stay that way for years to come. That will cause a paradigm shift in the usage levels of Linux over windows. I think this OS movement by AMD and NVidia will finally give M$ something to think about.

if you're an amd user and you think stability is important, then that paradigm shift happened in 2007.

I expect it'll never happen at Nvidia.

[aht0]

If they finally realized that it is less expensive to keep an open source driver that already exists it is already a success.

And what precisely would make it less expensive? Care to enlighten? As a rule, crushing majority of the people working on GPU drivers are vendor's own devs..

[b15hop]

I hate how bad drivers kind of hold the reins of Linux back. I sometimes wonder why this has been the case for literally decades. I feel like the time should come when one day, linux drivers are better than windows drivers. Then stay that way for years to come. That will cause a paradigm shift in the usage levels of Linux over windows. I think this OS movement by AMD and NVidia will finally give M$ something to think about.

[lateo]

Oh, well does that mean i may be able to use my 2017 laptop somewhere between 2021 and 2025 ? Awesome !
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For the time being, i'm glad i just bought a Lenovo T495 (Ryzen7/Vega10/24G RAM). Works great with Fedora31. My Steam library approves too.
Last but not least, I experienced a firmware upgrade triggered from the system : exciting stuff, greatest linux firmware upgrade experience ever.

[Venemo]

if you are excited about amd open driver performance, keep in mind that it is written mostly by amd employees and with full access to documentation(yes, even radv)

No, radv is developed mostly independently from AMD. Do you have a reliable source which claims otherwise?

[shmerl]

no, it has not. closed firmware is only an issue for latest generations,

Which basically means all recent cards, which means it can't work with full performance. What is there to argue about even? No one is going to use outdated hardware to work around this issue.

[royce]

I would imagine the fact intel is releasing their own discrete gpu solutions possibly next year has had something to do with this potential change of heart regarding nouveau. It would be 2 major discrete GPU providers having fully opensource drivers against 1, and this matters in cloud computing, and cloud gaming. Stadia runs on Linux.

[pal666]

It has. It can't work with full performance, see the article itself.

no, it has not. closed firmware is only an issue for latest generations, older ones don't suffer from it. still they can't compete with nvidia because nvidia has to write driver, nouveau has to reverse-engineer driver and write driver. and nouveau devs aren't on nvidia payroll, so maybe they have other jobs to do in addition.
if you are excited about amd open driver performance, keep in mind that it is written mostly by amd employees and with full access to documentation(yes, even radv)

[MadeUpName]

NVIDIA drivers support OpenCL 2.0 and Vulkan Compute just fine. There is not really any reason to bother with CUDA anymore. darktable has OpenCL support and it worked just fine on on my GTX 950.

If memory serves that is openCl transmorgified to run on the Cuda stack is it not? In which case a new open source driver would have no openCl with out Cuda. I might be wrong.