NVIDIA's Open-Source Linux Kernel Driver Performing At Parity To Proprietary Driver Review - Phoronix
NVIDIA's Open-Source Linux Kernel Driver Performing At Parity To Proprietary Driver Review - Phoronix
As a reminder, the same (closed-source) user-space components for OpenGL / OpenCL / Vulkan / CUDA are used regardless of the NVIDIA kernel driver option with their official driver stack.
CUDA hell remains. :(
AMD needs to get their ducks in a row. They already have the advantage of not being Nvidia
They already have the advantage of not being Nvidia
That's just because they release worse products.
If AMD had Nvidia's marketshare, they would be just as scummy as the business climate allows.
In fact, AMD piggybacks off of Nvidia's scumbaggery to charge more for their GPUs rather than engage in an actual price war.
Yes, the CUDA is the only reason why I consider NVIDIA. I really hate this company but the AMD tech stack is really inferior.
I've heard this but don't really understand it... At a high level, what makes cuda so much better?
The fact that cuda means 'wonders' in polish is living in my mind rent free several days after I read about nvidia news.
Well... it is an out-of-tree kernel driver that is made by the same company, and the userspace drivers are still proprietary.
This says NOTHING other than "wow NVIDIA can write good code (open source) that doesnt suck"?
Woohoo!
Anyone tried this beta version yet? Any idea how stable it is?
I been using the open kernel driver with my Debian Workstation, it has worked better then the default driver by far with the Debian backport Kernel, I installed it using the Nvidia Cuda Repo.
Performance parity? Heck no, not until this bug with the GSP firmware is solved: https://github.com/NVIDIA/open-gpu-kernel-modules/issues/538