Quoting: subIt's just that I like companies that respect ideas and values of communities and ecosystems.
So while people often praise Nvidia for their "great Linux support", think again:
Is the way Nvidia strategically acts is really something to consider "support" of the idea of Linux?

Nvidia spends a lot more money on their graphics team, so I'm not surprised they fix bugs faster. But despite the money poured into it, they surely don't support Linux properly, because they insist on using Windows approach for their Linux driver. And besides, they only fix what suits them. All their integration problems aren't fixed for years and even decades, despite all the money. Because it's not a priority for them.

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Quoting: barottoBut also this: https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=111482 [External Link] (which is quite annoying because the fans are constantly spinning up and down)

Interesting, I'm also using KDE, and I don't see such issue. I'm using PCIe 4, and for me GPU power consumption when using regular desktop (i.e. no major heavy games or anything like that) is 8 W. I also have the same card (Sapphire Pulse RX 5700 XT) and latest firmware. I think the original reporter of the bug has outdated firmware, since his idle fan RPM is not 0. I noticed that with older firmware as well. Could be power consumption levels were also different, I didn't check it before.

Though my monitor isn't like that mentioned in the bug report, but I plan to get high refresh rate monitor soon, so thanks for the pointer, I'll keep track of that bug.

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Quoting: jensIt is best to ignore posts from @shmerl about NVidia ;)

Good luck ignoring the declining trend of its usage on Linux ;)

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I think their kernel blob driver causes some major problems if using GBM, so even if they wanted, they couldn't do it. Nouveau on the other hand is totally fine with it. So it's not a hardware issue clearly.

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Quoting: linuxcitylinus can't throw up that middle finger anymore this is a pretty damn good release.

I think he still can, due to it still being a blob ;) I don't see any change in their attitude in this regard.

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Ray tracing itself is a good concept. I'm skeptical about wasting space on the GPU die on ray tracing ASICs however. It comes at the cost of having less other GPU compute units. I.e. you get weaker GPU with ray tracing, that's not even really that good, since good ray tracing requires much more powerful hardware anyway.

Question is, is it worth the trade off? I'm not sure it is. If you really need ray tracing, you'd better come up with another device in addition to GPU, instead of cramming it all into GPU itself.

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Ray tracing is really a marketing red herring at this point. Not something that's worth a huge premium tag Nvidia puts on their cards because of dedicated ASICs for it, and at this point not worth the GPU die space used on those ASICs at the cost of less general purpose GPU compute units.

Regarding trends, while AMD is marching in CPU department, in GPUs, Linux has its own situation that differs from Windows. Windows users for the most part prefer Nvidia, but on Linux situation is starting to tilt towards AMD. Though so far it doesn't look accelerating to me. The trend is more or less constant:

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Looking forward to laptops with AMD and coreboot. So far AGESA makes it impossible.

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Not sure if anyone posted comparisons, at least I haven't seen them. So unless you have both cards, how do you know how exactly they match in case of Proton?

From what I've read, dxvk at least performs very well with 5700 XT. Also, I don't think radv has all optimizations for Navi yet, so it will improve further (for example ngg and etc.). That's even besides aco, bulk moves and other upcoming optimizations. I.e. what you have for 5700 XT now is not even using full hardware potential yet.

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This is actually an aggregate result, so gives a better general idea. Per game basis can be more skewed on the other hand, so less informative.

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