Quoting: x_wing[...]
I really fail to understand why so many Nvidia users says that AMD driver support is inferior when they are actually providing the type of solution as Nvidia and more.

Based purely on anecdotal observation, I suspect it's because there's been many HOWTO guides for NVIDIA drivers written by "mainstream" news sites and its often mentioned in Youtube videos, whereas I have yet to see anyone mention how to set things up with AMD.

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Quoting: poisond[...] I have no idea how you come to the conclusion that NVidia performs worse for DXVK titles when all evidence points to the opposite.

I don't own any DX12 titles yet, but maybe you have some benchmarks to support your claims? [...]

I can't link to benchmarks, but I can point you at user YoRHa-2B - who actually works on DXVK - and their comments regarding NVIDIA, such as:
"On Nvidia though? Complete dogshit. Horizon Zero Dawn runs significantly slower on a 1080 Ti than it does on my RX 480 (...)"
and
"(vkd3d) has some cursed workarounds for Nvidia driver/hardware limitations to improve stability"
I'll let you look around for yourself for a bigger picture, but the impression I get as well, is that NVIDIA's drivers have issues with DXVK that don't exist with AMD.

Quoting: poisondYou can also consult https://www.protondb.com/stats [External Link] by GPU (spoiler, NVidia does better)

By 6% for Platinum ratings and 1% for Silver and Bronze. With the disparity between the amount of AMD and NVIDIA user, that's pretty much within noise ratio.

Now, back to our regularly scheduled flame-war :P

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Quoting: CybolicNVIDIA still doesn't support re-projection for use in VR, right?

From what I understand, they have the vulkan compute extensions for it, but not the low-latency, high priority driver path to make it actually usable.

That's my understanding as well. Since I'm currently using a 1080 Ti and pretty happy with the general performance (though not the quirks), the only reason for me to upgrade is to fix the re-projection stutter I get in VR. If NVIDIA still hasn't "fixed" that under Linux though, there's not much point in a new card, no matter how good the bang-for-the-buck is - for me anyway.

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NVIDIA still doesn't support re-projection for use in VR, right?

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I really don't get why it's been seeped in 80s, but can't say that I don't enjoy it :P

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Just checking in to say that the 5950X works great on the Gigabyte x570 Aorus Master with the latest BIOS (version F31e), even with kernel 5.4.75 (I'm using linux-lts on Arch). I didn't have any issues flashing the motherboard using QFlash (flash without a CPU installed) and there even seems to be some support for fan control, something I was really missing on my old MSI board.

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From what I've understood, the latest Proton version uses this to sandbox the Proton prefix, right? The reason I'm asking is that I've noticed the the sandboxing seems a bit extreme and I can't find a way to edit it. On my system, anything run with Proton 5.13-1 is kept away from accessing mount points that aren't registered as Steam Library locations, making it somewhat difficult to run productivity software when one's files aren't located in $HOME - even symlinks seem to be cut off.
Long story short: Does anyone know how to edit what's made available in these sandboxes?

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Quoting: ShmerlAlso, what's that "direct storage" thing? How does GPU supposed to support it?

At some point in the past they even integrated a 1Tb SSD in their GPU to get access to larger storage without being slowed down by the CPU and other components:

https://www.pcworld.com/article/3099964/amds-new-ssg-technology-adds-an-ssd-to-its-gpu.html [External Link]

I guess that may be a variant of this that would still uses computer's SSD (so they don't have to ship it themselves, to reduce price) but in a way performance approach this. There was huge improvements in PCIe and specific AMD technologies for interconnecting things last years.

I know little of this stuff in general, but according to Phoronix [External Link], it's built on the PCIe resizable BAR support that seems to have been in the kernel since 2013 and will be supported on Linux with these cards.

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I'm actually perfectly happy with the performance of my current GTX 1080 Ti, but I'll probably upgrade to an RX 6800 TX anyway once it comes out. It's just getting really tiresome to have to keep worrying about the NVIDIA driver during updates, having things like Wayland be unsupported, "paying" for features that aren't supported by their Linux driver, dealing with weird glitches and even hard lock-ups because everything is some NVIDIA proprietary library (NVENC/NVDEC especially) and worst of all, not having re-projection on my Valve Index because the company I paid for my GPU considers me a second-class citizen.

I've had enough and what AMD just presented is just the kick I needed to get back to AMD for the first time since my ATI Rage 128 :P

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I hope this means that the VR edition might come to Linux as well. The current Windows version might work through Proton (I don't know, there are no reports on ProtonDB yet) but it would be very nice to have it officially supported and there's also a definite lack of native VR titles at the moment.

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