Maybe there's something I'm missing here, but that github repo doesn't appear to have any code...?
AMD Open Source Driver for Vulkan
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Re: AMD Open Source Driver for Vulkan
#122I'm glad AMD has consistently put in work to keep their drivers available to the Linux community, even if sometimes it's been less than perfect. I really hope that Nvidia eventually also open sources it's drivers.
When hell freezes over. Their management seems stuck to agressive anti-FOSS stance forever. Shame to every developer who works for them - it is like working for the evil.
I keep wondering where Oracle and Nvidia come up with their developers. I don't want to work at either because of their complete disregard for FOSS, and most developers I know have the same opinion.
Re: AMD Open Source Driver for Vulkan
#123Nvidia refuses to support GBM for Wayland and instead came out with a completely different buffer API, EGLStreams. This is pretty arrogant. As I use sway, and it doesn't support Nvidia, I chose an AMD Vega 64, which works great. https://drewdevault.com/2017/10/26/Fuck-you-nvidia.html
How do you like sway? I'm still on an Nvidia GPU, but I might upgrade this year to an AMD GPU, and I've been hesitant to get back into tiling window managers untill I can use one on Wayland.
Re: AMD Open Source Driver for Vulkan
#124Earlier quoted context omitted.
I had the opposite experience. I had an older nvidia card. The binary driver would work great, then an update to the nvidia driver would come out, and the next reboot, I got to have lots of fun trying to get get it repaired without a gui. Half the time, just uninstalling/re-installing the older version would fix it.
For a long time I was on Ubuntu 14.04 LTS with the NVidia driver, and every time to update it would be a pain; inevitably, when I rebooted, I'd be at a console, having to fix the damn thing so the updated driver would work. After a couple of times of this, what I saw that was happening (and I am not saying this was it in your case) was my X config file was being replaced/updated and really just breaking everything. S…
I've often wondered about putting the whole of /etc into a git repository, so any changes (either by software updates, or by myself) were visible and reversible. Does anyone do this, and if not why not?
Re: AMD Open Source Driver for Vulkan
#125Earlier quoted context omitted.
From my perspective (computational physics, not machine learning) the situation with GPU compute is very simple. If you are fine writing everything from scratch and won't need the CUDA ecosystem (which is really all there is for good sparse matrix, linear algebra, etc. support), write OpenCL 1.2 (or even GLSL if it's a visualization-heavy code with relatively simple compute) and buy whatever gets you the best compute…
AMD's hardware is stupid-good from a compute perspective. Vega64 is $399, but renders Blender (on AMDGPU-PRO drivers) incredibly fast, like 2080 or 1080 Ti level. That's basically the main use case I bought a Vega for (which is why I'm very disappointed in ROCm's current bug which breaks Blender) If you really can use those 500GB/s HBM2 stacks + 10+ TFlops of power, the Vega is absolutely a monster, at far cheaper pr…
https://github.com/hashcat/hashcat has some assembly optimizations. They look fairly readable.
Re: AMD Open Source Driver for Vulkan
#126A lot of people are talking along the lines of "oh AMD is nice but... Nvidia". No, in 2019 all AMD GPUs this decade support OpenGL through 4.5, support Vulkan, and still really don't have a great OpenCL situation (rocm is out of tree on every distro and only supprts parts of 2.0 still). For gaming though, theres no reason not to get an AMD GPU. They are at near performance parity with Nvidia relative to their Windows…
RTX isn't crap. It's an innovation. Yes, it's at its early stages, but nevertheless. True reflections alone will result in new game mechanics. It will accelerate traditional 3D rendering.
At the very least, it will make it easier to implement not weird looking ambient occlusion and viewspace reflections.
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#127Earlier quoted context omitted.
Whats wrong with rtx (other than it being a bleeding edge tech that isn't well supported yet)?
I'm a "n00b" in this sector, so pls. feel free to correct me: 1) RTX is meant to be linked to "raytracing". 2a) Raytracing in general computes a scene by computing how photons are affected by matter - e.g. a full reflection by an absolutely smooth non-absorbing surface or a partial reflection&path_divergence done by liquids, etc... . 2b) In the simulation, the photon that "bounces off" a surface is then "rebounced" b…
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Re: AMD Open Source Driver for Vulkan
#128A lot of people are talking along the lines of "oh AMD is nice but... Nvidia". No, in 2019 all AMD GPUs this decade support OpenGL through 4.5, support Vulkan, and still really don't have a great OpenCL situation (rocm is out of tree on every distro and only supprts parts of 2.0 still). For gaming though, theres no reason not to get an AMD GPU. They are at near performance parity with Nvidia relative to their Windows…
> their RTX crap I was hyped about RTX when it came out and I'm all for more performant raytracing however my hype has seriously waned since the RTX release due to the lack of support. Until we have more games that support it I'm inclined to agree that there is no reason to included it when deciding between NVIDIA and AMD at this time. I would argue that by the time raytracing in gaming is more widespread there will…
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Re: AMD Open Source Driver for Vulkan
#129Earlier quoted context omitted.
For a long time I was on Ubuntu 14.04 LTS with the NVidia driver, and every time to update it would be a pain; inevitably, when I rebooted, I'd be at a console, having to fix the damn thing so the updated driver would work. After a couple of times of this, what I saw that was happening (and I am not saying this was it in your case) was my X config file was being replaced/updated and really just breaking everything. S…
I've often wondered about putting the whole of /etc into a git repository, so any changes (either by software updates, or by myself) were visible and reversible. Does anyone do this, and if not why not?
You might be interested in etckeeper [1].
Re: AMD Open Source Driver for Vulkan
#130A lot of people are talking along the lines of "oh AMD is nice but... Nvidia". No, in 2019 all AMD GPUs this decade support OpenGL through 4.5, support Vulkan, and still really don't have a great OpenCL situation (rocm is out of tree on every distro and only supprts parts of 2.0 still). For gaming though, theres no reason not to get an AMD GPU. They are at near performance parity with Nvidia relative to their Windows…
> they work with the inbuilt drivers on every distro out of the box
No they don't work with any distro that uses linux-libre.