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What? AMD develop their open source drivers and submit them to the kernel and they have their own set of Linux specific closed source drivers.

To be fair, pre-amdgpu, nvidia's proprietary linux drivers were sadly an exceptional "supported" situation.

Back then it was basically just Intel's integrated graphics that had first-class mainline support. The AMD linux support is a relatively recent shift historically speaking.

Intel really should get a lot more recognition for its mainline Linux graphics support though. Without their contributions over past decades we might not even have a modern graphics stack at all in-kernel.

They still suck though. I fully believe they're trying their best - AMD apparently can't write production-quality graphics drivers on Windows either - but I don't think they're reliable enough to be called "supported hardware", at least not yet.

Yes, and the open-source ones are not accelerated, and the closed-source ones don't work.

Please don't spread misinformation. AMD GPUs have had full 3d acceleration out of the box for several years now. I use Linux exclusively and had great performance in 3D games on R9 380, RX 570, and RX 580, all using the mainline (obviously FOSS) driver.

Yep, and the docs are freely available.

https://gpuopen.com/amd-isa-documentation/ for AMD.

https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/docs/graphics-for-li... for Intel

No, it's got useless crippled acceleration that's only suitable for games. You can't use them for video.

Vulkan Video is literally supported in ffmpeg.

Okay, let me know how you get on editing video in ffmpeg.

ffmpeg is one very small but important part of a complex chain.

Wow, software 3D rendering must have really gotten fast then. I play all my Steam games on Linux using the open source amdgpu driver. Or maybe I just imagined all those extra frames in RDR2. Someone should tell Valve that the Steam Deck could be a lot faster.

Or, I guess the other option is that you’re spreading misinformation.

Great. Now try editing video.

Not our fault your distro has outdated ffmpeg and mesa. Vulkan Video is nice.

Nothing uses Vulkan Video.

Both AMD and Intel have actively-maintained open source drivers in the Linux kernel.

Both of which are useless for video.

No they're not

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