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The open drivers ? You mean the ones without 3d acceleration support ?
That’s not the case for the newer open source drivers from nvidia. They’re only compatible with the last few generations of cards but they’re performant and the only feature they lack is CUDA to my knowledge. Not talking nouveau here
cuda works fine on 4070 right now, though iirc certain specific things dont run well and are a little funky in comparison. i think it was ollama? but llama.cpp seems to work fine, same with things like comfyui
No they have CUDA. The open driver from Nvidia just means the kernel module has an open source license. They are still the same proprietary pieces of shit that you know and love from a user space perspective.
Oh ok, that's pretty good then.
But I do hope we'll get an open cuda replacement soon and some sort of gpu partitionning/ vgpu capability
Intel Arc Pro is the only GPU attainable to normal people that supports SR-IOV. in general using a couple cheap cards is more reasonable than one expensive card that handles all those functions.
🤷♀️ I don't know much about that, cyberpunk runs perfect on my 4070 idk what else you could want
Then you are surely running the proprietary nvidia drivers, not the open source "nouveau" nvidia drivers ?
"nouveau" != "Nvidia open source drivers". Nouveau was community made by reverse engineering. Nvidia has released their own open source drivers now.
thanks, this explains my confusion, I recently lost half a weekend to this distinction !
No it's definitely the open drivers