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Open-Source "Nouveau" Driver Now Supports NVIDIA Ampere - But Without 3D Acceleration
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Originally posted by Espionage724 View PostAs long as NVIDIA's proprietary driver supports it, what's the problem? All the mainstream distros have easy installs for NVIDIA's driver.
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Originally posted by Alexmitter View PostI really wonder from what standpoint all the nvidia fanboys here come from.
I have a 1060, a VII and a RX 560 in my at work workstation. Imagine which of those cards is nothing but pain.
Showing a friend of mine the joy of linux, the only problem was him having a 1080 Ti, it resulted in nothing but pain and that with Ubuntu, the supposed nvidia out of the box distro.
Putting that damn RX 560 in that workstation was a life changer because it f*ing works, I had not to bother about the GPU once in a year of tracking the newest kernel releases and getting some work done.
And just thinking about the amount of code every single desktop on our platform that had to incorporate hacky tricks to get the desktop working properly on Nvidias own driver. No matter if you use Gnome, KDE, XFCE, Mate. This affects us all.
Edit: This is not even about Nvidia vs AMD. No matter if you have a Intel, AMD, Mali, Adreno, VideoCore and many more, it just works. The only two odd ones out are Nvidia and PowerVR.
Next time when you complain about something, choose the right target.
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Originally posted by d3coder View PostI don't get why amd users always are writing toxic posts in nvidia related news
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Originally posted by Espionage724 View Post
looks like I get to miss out on the fun of the software-accelerated cursor and losing everything when the DE decides to crash (GNOME).
'm not convinced any other DE or WM is usable in Wayland to bother with, yet anyway. But guess what? Xorg works great still
You complain about unaccelerated cursors, but the awful performance of fractional scaling on X is what got me to switch to Wayland.
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All of my computers use Nvidia cards, I'm running OpenSuse Tumbleweed on most of them. I don't have too many issues with the proprietary drivers, just the occasional wait for them to release the next one as they work to accommodate the kernel changes. in my two servers (Dual intel Xeon E5-2673 v4 CPUs and 256 GB RAM in each) , I run a 1080Ti and a TitanV. In my workstation (AMD Threadripper 3970 CPU and 128 GB RAM), I run a 2080Ti, but will be changing that out for a 3090. The 2080Ti will probably replace the 1080Ti, but that isn't a given. Please note, that these three machines have NEVER had a driver issue that causes a hang. Each of them is used for testing things like database clustering and virtual machines, and containers, with side forays into AI processing.
I get that a lot of people don't like the proprietary drivers. Trying to unencumber them from things licensed from SGI and other companies is a nightmare, simply because there are lots of lawyers involved. Some of those companies are defunct, but contract law holds them to the license agreements. I support the work that Nouveau does, but I'm going to use the best hardware for the job that I need doing.
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Originally posted by zexelon View PostThe last AMD/ATI card I used was a Radeon 9500 Pro and I will freely admit it was by far the dominant card at the time and an amazing feat of engineering! I really wish I could see another AMD card achieve what the 9XXX series did. At the same time 90% of my computer work these days requires CUDA so until ROCm becomes something real AMD cant touch Nvidia.Produktvergleich für Sapphire Nitro+ Radeon RX 6900 XT, 16GB GDDR6, HDMI, 3x DP, lite retail (11308-01-20G), PNY GeForce RTX 3090 XLR8 Gaming Revel Epic-X RGB Triple Fan, 24GB GDDR6X, HDMI, 3x DP (VCG309024TFXPPB)
6900XT=1449€
3090XT=1696€
you save 247€
isn't a 6900XT a technical master peace?
as soon as the DLSS2 feature is done as AMD Super-Resolution on AMDs Driver you can be sure the 6900XT is always faster.
why i am sure about this? over all benchmarks i have seen the 3090 looks faster at 4K and the amd card is faster in 2K and 2,5€ and also 3K. as soon as you use DLSS2/AMD Super-Resolution you run the game at a lower resolution and upscale it to 4K but this means as soon as AMD Super Resolution is done in driver there is a high chance that the 6900XT always wins. also all only watch nvidia implementation of Ray-Racing but if you watch the games who use the AMD implementation then the 6900XT is 10% faster than the 3090. sure the Nvidia implementation is faster on the 3090. but because the new Xbox and Playstation is AMD based you will see the AMD implementation in many games.
about CUDA vs ROCm yes you are right if you need cuda you maybe choose a 3090 anyway.
but i see the future of Compute in the Vulkan based Compute. as soon as this happens the 6900XT will shine.
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Originally posted by Espionage724 View PostI had 5 different Polaris GPUs (2 SAPPHIRE RX 580s, 2 XFX RX 580s, and 1 XFX RX 560); all of them had instability at 4K@60Hz over HDMI, and it happened on Windows, macOS, and Linux, on several different motherboards, about 6 HDMI 2.0-certified cables, and even a TB2 eGPU enclosure. There's other reports about this from others on AMD's forum and Hard Forum.
After the 3rd GPU, I was questioning if I was really that unlucky, but after trying a GTX 1060, I had no issues whatsoever. But then silly me figured maybe it was just XFX being odd and I decided to give SAPPHIRE a try. Both SAPPHIRE cards had the same instability, and still have it today.
The ones where the card due to the bad solder just complete stops have had a far better time of it not spending ages in diagnostics really not leading that far. Yes it lead to a lot of false starts where person will think windows or linux is working until the run long enough and the one they think works bits it when power management goes the right/wrong way and it fails.
Espionage724 there is such thing as bad timing and bad lucky. The fact the cards are still working just without 4k@60 you have been luckier than some. Those 8 that were reworked were all 100 percent zero output before being reworked. Please note there is also a mountain of Nvidia gpu from the same time-frame also needing rework so they will fully function as well..
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Originally posted by zexelon View PostThere is absolutely nothing in the Linux community that sets the world on fire like Nvidia news...
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Originally posted by Charlie68 View Post
Nvidia on Linux is not the best choice if you don't want to spend the days between black screens and various problems and it is enough to open a forum of any distribution to understand that it is a problem .
That's utter BS.
Originally posted by Charlie68 View PostAfter that if a user wants Nvidia hardware it is a choice, of him but don't complain if things don't work as they should.
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