• Vash63@lemmy.world
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    6 months ago

    Technically AMD also offers an open Vulkan driver (AMDVLK), it’s just dog shit, and an open compute driver (Rocm), its just also bad, and an open OpenGL driver (Radeonsi), which is solid.

    Those three are all primarily developed by AMD engineers and are fully open. Nvidia has no such open equivalents.

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      6 months ago

      While I mostly agree, NVIDIA has NVK and NVIDIA themselves just dropped a bunch of code into it.

      The NVIDIA open source kernel modules are also certified ( by NVIDIA ) to work with their driver. So, you do not have to use proprietary kernel modules anymore.

      These are all pretty big steps.