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Linux Specific Issues / Re: The best graphics card for free drivers in playing planeshift and other 3d games
« on: April 23, 2017, 08:59:21 pm »The amdgpu and radeon drivers seem to be about the same, but the amdgpu-pro drivers are terrible (random crashes), not to mention no 4.10 kernel support. Amd cards are better if you want to use opensource drivers, but performance wise, nVidia still has a huge lead with closed source drivers. For instance, with something like Minecraft, I'm lucky to stay over 50 fps for more than a few seconds regardless of driver, even with the player facing a wall. In Windows 10, despite opengl being second class citizen and Minecraft still building on a clunky 10 year old version of lwjgl, I can hit over 100fps. According to AMD employees, their Linux team is primarily focused on enterprise and server areas, you know because you need top performing drivers to render a terminal emulator.
Don't use closed AMD drivers - there is no point. Radeonsi (Mesa) performs very well today. Only radv (Mesa Vulkan for AMD) is still behind, and AMD didn't open up their own Vulkan implementation yet.