Quoting: slaapliedje

Quoting: Shmerl

Quoting: slaapliedjeI have been using nvidia for years, and it has pretty much been 'just works'.

I remember Nvidia breaking more than once due to kernel updates and I remember Nvidia messing up my install to the point of frustration and wiping out the whole OS to reinstall. Not upstreaming their driver has consequences. Ditching the blob felt very good and I'm not interested in going back to that horror :)

See, I have had the exact opposite experience. The Radeon laptop that I have, it worked mistly with the fglrx driver, but would break all the time as it wouldn't work either with a newer kernel, or xorg. Then there was a point in time where it fit in that tiny slit of not being supported by the open source driver OR fglrx, and I basically had to switch to Windows...

• My ATI Rage 128 took forever to get support but eventually worked (this was back in 2000/2001, so not much point in comparing further)


• My Radeon (some mid-2000s laptop model, sorry can't remember more) worked wonderfully in Linux but had shoddy 3D performance (it was fine, but not great - laptop though), great experience otherwise, solid hardware and fantastic TV output (yes, it was that long ago)


• my GeForce 680, 980 and 1080 Ti all worked well in games, but the 980 and 1080 Ti both had weird things happening: lots of kernel incompatibilities, system freezes were common (better now, but still happen, especially with VT switching, CUDA, NVdec or VDPAU - basically anything that's supposed to give NVIDIA an advantage) and OpenGL texture corruption and/or texture sync (don't ask, I'm still not sure what it it precisely, but any desktop compositor will go out of sync with actual framebuffers eventually and require a restart - still happens with compton, picom, Mutter and KWin).

Quoting: DanglingPointerStill not released for Linux so although we're passed the release date, we still can't play it yet. It isn't a same day release.

Quoting: LiamDaweArriving for Windows on December 3, Feral Interactive have confirmed that it will arrive on Linux (and macOS) "shortly" after Windows. This could be anything from a day to a few weeks, hopefully not long though.

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.

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? [...]

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

Quoting: Guest

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.

Quoting: illwieckz

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.