Originally posted by dh04000
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- Pierre Boudier left AMD last month.
- They have opened a lot of HW specs.
- OSS AMD team has been very active.
- HW video decoding is much better with OSS (XvBA is broken right now)
- Major perf gain in OSS driver
- OpenCL support introduced in OSS
Yes catalyst is better now but I haven't seen major breakthrough in catalyst lately. They seem to do the bare minimum. Some bug fixes and add support to new cards. That is it.
If the same momentom continues, it is clear to me that radeon OSS driver will eventually catch up catalyst. That is my interpretation on the long term view that AMD has taken. Feel free to disagree. In the end, I do not care which driver I use, I just want the best of my HW. OSS is better as it lets user fix bugs themselves...
Dangling Pointer: I have finally succombed by purchasing Metro: LL last night at 13.99$ With such a low price tag, I could not resist. Lets hope the developper will continue supporting the title and bring it eventually on par with the Windows version as the platform enhancement allows it.
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