Uh oh, I should have known what I'd step into simply asking which vendor was recommended. Imprecise questions like these often lead to holy wars... Vi/Emacs, Gnome/KDE, AMD/Nvidia, and so on. But it's encouraging to see that discussions on this list stay civil :-)
I'm not a big fan of Nvidia's past unwillingness to work with the kernel community and bring truly open drivers to Linux. AMD seems to do a lot better these days. But... There doesn't seem to be a truly open option right now that supports the newest cards. Even ROCm, which is open source, doesn't support the new 5700 XT cards, afaict. I'll try to summarise what info I think I've got so far: AMD: * slightly lower performance at the high end * definitely cheaper than high-end Nvidia * someone mentioned power consumption, but I think with the latest cards that has been reigned in * open-source option (ROCm) though not for the most recent cards * from personal experience: getting the AMDGPU-pro drivers to run on Debian Sid (which is what I'm using) can be a pain Nvidia: * better performance, especially if money is not the deciding factor * more expensive * no open-source option to speak of, but binary drivers seem to work well enough However, both should work well for darktable once the drivers are running. I wish I could go with Intel, since they at least have completely open drivers, but performance is abbysmal. That's once reason I asked my original question. If anyone has anything substantial to add that I have overlooked, feel free to comment further. I think I've made my decision, though. Thanks everyone for the help. Cheers, Chris On Mon, Sep 16, 2019 at 10:23:47AM +0200, Fabien Engels wrote: > Hi, > > The issue comes from Nvidia politic that makes Open source developers life a > nightmare. Some information you can fin here : > - https://drewdevault.com/2017/10/26/Fuck-you-nvidia.html > - https://www.wired.com/2012/06/torvalds-nvidia-linux/ > > I read that things start to change as Nvidia started to provide some > documentation to help the Nouveau Project (Open source driver for Nvidia made > by the community) but a lot of things are not shared (like how to manage > power consumption). > > So yes, as users of distribution like Ubuntu, Mint and etc, you'll ever see > any issue because they are hidden thanks to the work provided by distribution > maintainers. > > Let's hope, Nvidia will change its mind and start to real cooperate with the > community. > > -- > Fabien Engels > [email protected] > > On Mon, Sep 16, 2019, at 10:11, thokster wrote: > > Am 16.09.19 um 07:57 schrieb Matthias Bodenbinder: > > > I am using NVIDIA cards since decades. Very nice. > > > I can not understand the NVIDIA bashing I read every now and then. I used > > > NVIDIA cards with debian, Mint and now Manjaro without issue. -- Nothing to see here. Move along. ____________________________________________________________________________ darktable user mailing list to unsubscribe send a mail to [email protected]
