The original subject was about being able to *not* use the proprietary drivers for AMD, but just a few libraries extracted from the package.
It worked like a charm for me on the latest Ubuntu: open source drivers on the latest kernel 4.11 RC! Nvidia doesn't even support this kernel right now afaik. My $150 AMD RX 460 4GB seems to be by far the best value when you're building a machine for doing image work in opencl, so as long as the new cards are well supported, I can't see myself buying the doubly expensive nvidia cards (the dark table benchmarks for the 1060 show it only being marginally faster for double the price) On Sat, Apr 1, 2017, 00:45 Pascal Obry <[email protected]> wrote: > Le samedi 01 avril 2017 à 09:09 +0200, Remco Viëtor a écrit : > > I know. But CUDA also needs the proprietary drivers, which was my > > point. > > But that's not what we are discussing. Look at the subject, this is > about OpenCL and the situation is clear, for OpenCL you need the > proprietary driver for AMD and NVIDIA. > > And as stated here many times by multiple users AMD has big issues with > many configurations whereas NVIDIA support for more GPU and even some > quite old. > > That's the important point to keep in mind for people about to build a > new configuration. > > -- > Pascal Obry / Magny Les Hameaux (78) > > The best way to travel is by means of imagination > > http://www.obry.net > > gpg --keyserver keys.gnupg.net --recv-key F949BD3B > > ____________________________________________________________________________ > darktable user mailing list > to unsubscribe send a mail to > [email protected] > > -- -- Kelvie Wong ____________________________________________________________________________ darktable user mailing list to unsubscribe send a mail to [email protected]
