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Open-Source NVIDIA Linux Driver Usage About To Become Much More Reliable (www.phoronix.com)

submitted 3 weeks ago by cm0002@piefed.world to c/linux@programming.dev

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[–] Joker@piefed.social 23 points 3 weeks ago (3 children)

It’s generally easier because the drivers are built in. Nvidia is perfectly usable, but it’s more susceptible to breaking during kernel updates. It’s not as bad as everyone makes it sound though. That said, AMD is usually the way to go on Linux unless your use case requires Nvidia.

[–] NeilBru@lemmy.world 9 points 3 weeks ago

The use case is precision CAD and DNN development.

cuDNN+CUDA+TensorCores have the best TOPS/$/kWh performance (for now). Plus, I need ECC VRAM for professional CAD calculations.

There's plenty of reasons to use an NVIDIA stack.

It's just weird when people say there's no reason to use their products.

[–] DeprecatedCompatV2@programming.dev 8 points 3 weeks ago (3 children)

I use it because I need HDMI :/

[–] thingsiplay@beehaw.org 3 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Can you explain what you mean by that? You can't use HDMI with AMD?

[–] MangoPenguin@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Not the newer version of it, they're stuck on the older one.

[–] thingsiplay@beehaw.org 5 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

Ah right, I have read about that, just forgot. Man HDMI is such a mess. Use Display Port whenever you can and don't buy a monitor without one ever again.

[–] MangoPenguin@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 3 weeks ago

It really is, most people could probably be using Display Port anyways, unless trying to hook up to a TV I suppose.

[–] frozen@lemmy.frozeninferno.xyz 2 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

The 9070 XT supports HDMI 2.1b, and unfortunately my Sapphire NITRO+ has two of them and two DisplayPorts. None of my three monitors support HDMI 2.0 or 2.1, so one of them is stuck at 60 Hz right now, and I'm pretty annoyed about it.

[–] thingsiplay@beehaw.org 1 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Did you make sure its not an issue with the cable? Because the cables need to support the "correct" version and features of HDMI too, not just the GPU and monitor connections and the driver. Man typing that out makes me dizzy.

[–] frozen@lemmy.frozeninferno.xyz 2 points 3 weeks ago

I've checked it, just to be sure, it's definitely a 2.1 cable, but unfortunately the cable doesn't matter in this case. My monitors are good, but they're older. HDMI 2.0/2.1 wasn't around back then. I get good refresh rates over DisplayPort (I believe they have DP 1.4), and my RX 6800 XT had three of those, so I just naively assumed a 9070 XT would as well.

[–] MangoPenguin@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 3 weeks ago

Display Port ftw

[–] shadowedcross@sh.itjust.works 2 points 3 weeks ago (3 children)

What does that have to do with needing NVIDIA?

[–] bjoern_tantau@swg-empire.de 10 points 3 weeks ago

The newer versions of HDMI aren't supported on AMD cards due to licencing issues.

[–] davidgro@lemmy.world 10 points 3 weeks ago

Something about AMD not being able to license the HDMI protocol in a way that allows open source code.

The main Nvidia driver that people use is proprietary, so it doesn't have that problem

[–] 9tr6gyp3@lemmy.world 5 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

Obviously AMD and Intel don't include HDMI on their cards.

[–] Jumuta@sh.itjust.works 0 points 3 weeks ago

"perfectly usable" as in you have to install a third party translation layer to make hardware video decoding work on firefox