AMD's Open Source Linux Driver Trounces NVIDIA's

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."

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Re:So the OSS community sucks at writing drivers

[bill_mcgonigle]

That the open source AMD drivers would trounce the open source NVIDIA drivers is about as surprising as the Daily Mail finding something causes cancer.

Let's try to be precise here. Closed source is the cancer, but it's closed specs that causes it.