Re: Nvidia vs AMD open source drivers

2015-06-11 Thread notoneofmyseeds
On 06/10/2015 09:10 AM, Sven Arvidsson wrote: If you're building a new system, you might go with Intel at first, and later buy a discrete graphics card (AMD) if you need higher performance. I've had really good feedback from both AMD and Intel when filing bugs and having problems. I'm sure the n

Re: Nvidia vs AMD open source drivers

2015-06-11 Thread Bret Busby
On 11/06/2015, Petter Adsen wrote: > On Wed, 10 Jun 2015 20:02:38 +0200 > Dan wrote: > >> On Wed, Jun 10, 2015 at 12:09 PM, Sven Arvidsson wrote: >> > On Wed, 2015-06-10 at 04:45 -0400, Ric Moore wrote: >> >> OK, for some cases ~it works~, but not ~all~ cases. So, enough >> >> with the warm fuzz

Re: Nvidia vs AMD open source drivers

2015-06-11 Thread Petter Adsen
On Wed, 10 Jun 2015 20:02:38 +0200 Dan wrote: > On Wed, Jun 10, 2015 at 12:09 PM, Sven Arvidsson wrote: > > On Wed, 2015-06-10 at 04:45 -0400, Ric Moore wrote: > >> OK, for some cases ~it works~, but not ~all~ cases. So, enough > >> with the warm fuzzies, here's actual benchmark comparison. > >>

Re: Nvidia vs AMD open source drivers

2015-06-10 Thread tomas
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wed, Jun 10, 2015 at 09:45:07PM +0100, Terence wrote: > Hi, Andrew, > > If what you say is correct about Nvidia only allowing signed code in future > (and I have no doubt that you are correct) I, for one will break the habit > of a long time, and c

Re: Nvidia vs AMD open source drivers

2015-06-10 Thread Terence
Hi, Andrew, If what you say is correct about Nvidia only allowing signed code in future (and I have no doubt that you are correct) I, for one will break the habit of a long time, and cease buying NVIDIA cards. I had looked at their Shield as a tablet, but now... Terence On 10 June 2015 at 21:23

Re: Nvidia vs AMD open source drivers

2015-06-10 Thread Andrew McGlashan
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 On 11/06/2015 4:02 AM, Dan wrote: > Thanks a lot for your answers. I can not use intel because the > provider of our company only proposes AMD or NVIDIA for the > workstations. > > I do not need a very fancy graphic card, I need something that > w

Re: Nvidia vs AMD open source drivers

2015-06-10 Thread Dan
On Wed, Jun 10, 2015 at 12:09 PM, Sven Arvidsson wrote: > On Wed, 2015-06-10 at 04:45 -0400, Ric Moore wrote: >> OK, for some cases ~it works~, but not ~all~ cases. So, enough with the >> warm fuzzies, here's actual benchmark comparison. >> >> http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=nvi

Re: Nvidia vs AMD open source drivers

2015-06-10 Thread Sven Arvidsson
On Wed, 2015-06-10 at 04:45 -0400, Ric Moore wrote: > OK, for some cases ~it works~, but not ~all~ cases. So, enough with the > warm fuzzies, here's actual benchmark comparison. > > http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=nvidia_nouveau_utopic&num=1 > > As of October last year, the nv

Re: Nvidia vs AMD open source drivers

2015-06-10 Thread Ric Moore
On 06/10/2015 03:01 AM, Sven Arvidsson wrote: On Tue, 2015-06-09 at 18:01 -0400, Ric Moore wrote: Which open source driver is better Nouveau or AMD open source driver? It ALL depends on your needs. If you want gaming, or multi-card/monitor support, with all the goodies turned on, you'll want th

Re: Nvidia vs AMD open source drivers

2015-06-10 Thread Sven Arvidsson
On Tue, 2015-06-09 at 23:28 +0200, Dan wrote: > Hi, > I would live to buy a workstation and install Jessie. I would like to > use the open source drivers for the graphic card. What would you > recommend? My choices are Nvidia or AMD. > > I checked the Nvidia/Debian wiki and the Nouveau drivers see

Re: Nvidia vs AMD open source drivers

2015-06-10 Thread Sven Arvidsson
On Tue, 2015-06-09 at 18:01 -0400, Ric Moore wrote: > > Which open source driver is better Nouveau or AMD open source driver? > It ALL depends on your needs. If you want gaming, or multi-card/monitor > support, with all the goodies turned on, you'll want the real drivers. > If you are just doing

Re: Nvidia vs AMD open source drivers

2015-06-09 Thread Petter Adsen
On Wed, 10 Jun 2015 09:38:46 +0900 Man_Without_Clue wrote: > > > On Wednesday, 10 June, 2015 07:01 AM, Ric Moore wrote: > > On 06/09/2015 05:28 PM, Dan wrote: > >> Hi, > >> I would live to buy a workstation and install Jessie. I would like > >> to use the open source drivers for the graphic car

Re: Nvidia vs AMD open source drivers

2015-06-09 Thread tomas
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tue, Jun 09, 2015 at 11:28:59PM +0200, Dan wrote: > Hi, > I would live to buy a workstation and install Jessie. I would like to > use the open source drivers for the graphic card. What would you > recommend? My choices are Nvidia or AMD. I was in t

Re: Nvidia vs AMD open source drivers

2015-06-09 Thread Man_Without_Clue
On Wednesday, 10 June, 2015 07:01 AM, Ric Moore wrote: On 06/09/2015 05:28 PM, Dan wrote: Hi, I would live to buy a workstation and install Jessie. I would like to use the open source drivers for the graphic card. What would you recommend? My choices are Nvidia or AMD. I checked the Nvidia/De

Re: Nvidia vs AMD open source drivers

2015-06-09 Thread Ric Moore
On 06/09/2015 05:28 PM, Dan wrote: Hi, I would live to buy a workstation and install Jessie. I would like to use the open source drivers for the graphic card. What would you recommend? My choices are Nvidia or AMD. I checked the Nvidia/Debian wiki and the Nouveau drivers seems to work very well:

Nvidia vs AMD open source drivers

2015-06-09 Thread Dan
Hi, I would live to buy a workstation and install Jessie. I would like to use the open source drivers for the graphic card. What would you recommend? My choices are Nvidia or AMD. I checked the Nvidia/Debian wiki and the Nouveau drivers seems to work very well: "As of jessie, the need for the prop