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It kind of held up wouldn't you think? (lemmy.world)
submitted 1 year ago by Bondrewd@lemmy.world to c/linuxmemes@lemmy.world
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[–] LaggyKar@programming.dev 12 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

This is very outdated.

  • Catalyst doesn't exist anymore, it was replaced by AMDGPU-PRO years ago.
  • The Radeon Mesa driver (radeonsi) is generally faster than AMDGPU-PRO OpenGL for gaming, and has been for years. On the Vulkan side, performance is usually fairly close between the Mesa driver (RADV), AMDVLK and AMDGPU-PRO.
  • AMDGPU is just the kernel driver, which is used by both the Mesa drivers and AMDGPU-PRO, so why is it listed separately?
  • For Intel, I think the hardware was holding it back more than the driver, especially since they've replaced the classic Mesa drivers with Gallium based ones. But now they're doing the Arc stuff.
  • I don't know if I would say that Nvidia proprietary runs well
[–] local_intruder@programming.dev 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

So as a RX580 user I should be using Radeon Mesa driver?

[–] Barbarian@sh.itjust.works 4 points 1 year ago

Yes. The default out of the box experience is pretty great with AMD + any mainstream distro.

[–] nottheengineer@feddit.de 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Proprietary nvidia driving well?

I'm currently considering buying an AMD GPU just so that I don't constantly have to troubleshoot the nvidia driver when I want to game.

[–] KSPAtlas@sopuli.xyz 1 points 1 year ago

Also nvidia doesn't support so many APIs, so so things like loading screens break, it also makes it impossible to report kernel issues due to a tainted kernel

[–] mojo@lemm.ee 4 points 1 year ago

Nvidia drives well

[FAILED] Failed to start nvidia-powerd service

[–] gizmonicus@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

As others have mentioned, this is super old. Also, catalyst is not nearly as reckless and dangerous as it should be. It was more like letting a drunk child drive a school bus.

[–] optissima@lemmy.ml 1 points 9 months ago

Those have additional safeties like speed governerners, which balances out the drunk child driving it 👌

[–] refurbishedrefurbisher@lemmy.sdf.org 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

This is definitely an ancient meme. The radeon kernel driver has been out of use since GCN 2.

Also AMDGPU is generally the same speed or slightly faster than AMDGPU-PRO. And thankfully, fglrx is long dead.

[–] nicman24@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago

2015 called. They want their carpe verde GPUs back

[–] woodgen@lemm.ee 1 points 1 year ago

The fact that 4 of these drivers are part of mesa and OP doesn't know the name of the first one (probably r600, as radeonsi and radv are what is meant by amdgpu) shows the questionabilty of this chart. Also OP never tried to run Wayland or KMS on NVIDIA. Granny can drive better than that.

[–] clay_pidgin@sh.itjust.works 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Is gaming with Nvidia really so dire? I have a modern green card and I'm considering a switch to Linux desktop.

[–] Bondrewd@lemmy.world 2 points 11 months ago (1 children)

What? Nope.

[–] clay_pidgin@sh.itjust.works 1 points 11 months ago

Glad to hear it. Thanks.