El lunes, 23 de junio de 2014, Michael Völker <[email protected]>
escribió:
> Hi,
>
> I'd like to add some points to keep in mind prior to buying the
> hardware.
>
> == 1 ==
> For AMD, there are two *official* driver families: An Open Source one
> ("radeon") and a closed source driver ("fglrx"). The OS driver is
> included in the kernel and should be, comfort-wise, the way to heaven:
> Run the kernel and be happy not worrying about anything.
> However, fglrx *is* faster and has more features because it probably
> contains some confidential intellectual property. The main worry is
> probably that it may have trouble to work with a specific kernel version
> but any kernel "not bleeding edge" should be fine.
> The in-kernel radeon had great improvements lately (newer kernels),
> sometimes offering close-to-fglrx performance.
>
> Nvidia has a proprietary driver only. There's an unofficial OS driver
> ("nouveau"), but due to the lack of official support it's much less
> mature than radeon.
>
> It's a great plus for AMD, because you will very likely benefit from the
> active radeon development even if you choose fglrx first.
And he has to chose fglrx to benefit from OpenCL.
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