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Open-Source NVIDIA Linux Driver Usage About To Become Much More Reliable (www.phoronix.com)
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[–] 22 points 1 year ago (15 children)

It’s generally easier because the drivers are built in. Nvidia is perfectly usable, but it’s more susceptible to breaking during kernel updates. It’s not as bad as everyone makes it sound though. That said, AMD is usually the way to go on Linux unless your use case requires Nvidia.

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  • [–] 9 points 1 year ago

    The use case is precision CAD and DNN development.

    cuDNN+CUDA+TensorCores have the best TOPS/$/kWh performance (for now). Plus, I need ECC VRAM for professional CAD calculations.

    There's plenty of reasons to use an NVIDIA stack.

    It's just weird when people say there's no reason to use their products.

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  • [–] 7 points 1 year ago (12 children)

    I use it because I need HDMI :/

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago (6 children)

    Can you explain what you mean by that? You can't use HDMI with AMD?

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago (5 children)

    Not the newer version of it, they're stuck on the older one.

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  • [–] 5 points 1 year ago (4 children)

    Ah right, I have read about that, just forgot. Man HDMI is such a mess. Use Display Port whenever you can and don't buy a monitor without one ever again.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    The 9070 XT supports HDMI 2.1b, and unfortunately my Sapphire NITRO+ has two of them and two DisplayPorts. None of my three monitors support HDMI 2.0 or 2.1, so one of them is stuck at 60 Hz right now, and I'm pretty annoyed about it.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago (1 child)

    Did you make sure its not an issue with the cable? Because the cables need to support the "correct" version and features of HDMI too, not just the GPU and monitor connections and the driver. Man typing that out makes me dizzy.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago

    I've checked it, just to be sure, it's definitely a 2.1 cable, but unfortunately the cable doesn't matter in this case. My monitors are good, but they're older. HDMI 2.0/2.1 wasn't around back then. I get good refresh rates over DisplayPort (I believe they have DP 1.4), and my RX 6800 XT had three of those, so I just naively assumed a 9070 XT would as well.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    What does that have to do with needing NVIDIA?

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  • [–] 10 points 1 year ago

    Something about AMD not being able to license the HDMI protocol in a way that allows open source code.

    The main Nvidia driver that people use is proprietary, so it doesn't have that problem

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