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AMD's Open Source Linux Driver Trounces NVIDIA's

Posted by timothy on from the hari-seldon dept.

An anonymous reader writes "In a 15-way graphics card comparison on Linux of both the open and closed-source drivers, it was found that the open-source AMD Linux graphics driver is much faster than the open-source NVIDIA driver on Ubuntu 13.04. The open-source NVIDIA driver is developed entirely by the community via reverse-engineering, but for Linux desktop users, is this enough? The big issue for the open-source 'Nouveau' driver is that it doesn't yet fully support re-clocking the graphics processor so that the hardware can actually run at its rated speeds. With the closed-source AMD Radeon and NVIDIA GeForce results, the drivers were substantially faster than their respective open-source driver. Between NVIDIA and AMD on Linux, the NVIDIA closed-source driver was generally doing better than AMD Catalyst."

3 of 147 comments (clear)

  1. Re:Nice heading by somersault · · Score: 4, Funny

    We're going to need another Timmy

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    which is totally what she said
  2. Re:Nice heading by __aaacoe2998 · · Score: 4, Funny

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IVpOyKCNZYw Linus Torvalds explaining how much he loves Nvidia.

  3. Re:hum by Narcocide · · Score: 4, Funny

    Probably because that's where Hoffa's body is buried or something.