• kakes@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
        20·
        6 months ago

        The prediction that NVIDIA’s open GPU Linux kernel driver would be the default for Turing and newer GPUs, I assume.

          • TheGrandNagus@lemmy.worldEnglish
            9·
            6 months ago

            Yes. Some people will come out and say that no they used to be good, but it’s not really true, they’ve always been iffy.

            It’s just that ATI’s used to be even worse until AMD bought them up and moved Radeon to being much more FOSS-friendly.

      • Beaver@lemmy.caEnglish
        83·
        6 months ago

        The prediction that we will have decent open source NVIDIA drivers this year.

    • seaQueue@lemmy.worldEnglish
      9·
      6 months ago

      I think it’s more like small bugs in the kernel portion will be fixed faster. There are a lot of small patches needed to build the dkms module against the kernel as mainline and stable evolve - they’re often carried in various distro packages until upstream (Nvidia) picks them up for a future release. The open driver should speed that cycle along.

      • d00ery@lemmy.worldEnglish
        2·
        6 months ago

        😁 ok thanks. I get the speeding the cycle up bit! Makes sense that it’ll be easier to fix bugs if the code is open.

    • warmaster@lemmy.worldEnglish
      51·
      6 months ago

      At first, it will be more stable but less performant. Performance will come with time.