keplr writes:
Phoronix, a 10-year old linux-focused tech website, has benchmarked the latest Nvidia GeForce drivers and compared the results under Ubuntu 14.04 and Windows 8.1. The Ubuntu driver actually performed slightly ahead in a few tests. While Intel and AMD are considered better citizens in the FLOSS community, Nvidia has enjoyed a lead in technical performance with their proprietary drivers.
With increasing support from hardware manufacturers, and big names like Valve backing Linux, one of the last remaining pillars of Windows dominance on the desktop continues to be chipped away.
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(Score: 5, Funny) by davester666 on Monday March 31 2014, @07:18AM
they made both drivers equally crappy!
(Score: 4, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Monday March 31 2014, @07:34AM
I played metro first light on Linux Mint through the Steam Installer and its smooth and fantastic. The only crappy thing is physx doesn't work on Linux. Doesn't make sense why Nvidia doesn't support this on Linux, really wish they would, perhaps its DX specific?
Linux gaming is definitely feasible and works well.
(Score: 4, Insightful) by jasassin on Monday March 31 2014, @07:37AM
It's just a shame binary drivers create artificial obsolescence. My ATI HD 3450 is now useless thanks to an xorg rev. So I'm stuck using old stable Debian or Windows. Good thing I have two middle fingers, one for ATI and one for xorg.
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(Score: 1) by lord_rob the only on on Monday March 31 2014, @08:33AM
You mean fglrx (so ATI non-free drivers) or xorg with the "open" drivers and the non-free kernel blob ? I don't want to tell you that you're wrong, just asking.
(Score: 5, Informative) by Hell_Rok on Monday March 31 2014, @08:36AM
I've got a 4850 that had this issue, but it turns out the open source driver performs brilliantly on Debian testing. It can play TF2/CSS/whatever really well.
(Score: 3, Funny) by clone141166 on Monday March 31 2014, @08:55AM
aaaaaaaaaaaaaaahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh fglrx aaaaaaaaahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh
fglrx is the reason I haven't bought an ATI card in over half a decade :\
Surviving fglrx is like surviving the fall of communism... NEVER AGAIN!
(Score: 2) by maxwell demon on Monday March 31 2014, @02:41PM
So you suggest the fall of communism was a bad thing?
The Tao of math: The numbers you can count are not the real numbers.
(Score: 3, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Monday March 31 2014, @09:19AM
binary drivers create artificial obsolescence
Yup. How much MORE money do they have to lose before they figure out that producing a proper FOSS device driver is like printing money?x -support [inquisitr.com]
Here's a quarter billion bucks they pissed away:
nvidia-loses-10-million-gpu-order-over-awful-linu
-- gewg_
(Score: 1) by Wootery on Monday March 31 2014, @06:32PM
This is excellent, but I wonder what the Loongson (that article mistakenly says "Longsoon") will be going with as an alternative. AMD's offerings? PowerVR? I presume they're not focused on high graphical performance.
(Score: 2) by Aighearach on Monday March 31 2014, @07:24PM
The chip is used in low power embedded solutions, tablets, etc. And for example the famous open source laptop Lemote Yeeloong (not only the board is open source, the dev boards for each subsystem are too)
No, it is not for "high graphical performance." It is for low power usage. You probably wouldn't want a MIPS-compatible processor in the same place as high-performance graphics anyways. But you would often want basic, open, standards-based OpenGL support.
(Score: 3, Insightful) by morgauxo on Monday March 31 2014, @01:05PM
Don't feel too bad about that. In a couple more years there will probably be a whole different type of expansion slot to replace PCIE. Then your card will be just as useful as the VLB and AGP cards that it replaced! Even if obsolescence isn't planned it is definitely not avoided either.
(Score: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Monday March 31 2014, @03:20PM
I have an nVidia 6150 video chipset motherboard. Now I just use it as a LAN server and the nouveou driver now completely breaks the system on Debian stable. It makes it unusable requiring blacklisting which in itself required sticking in an old video card just to be able to see anything. This hardware is remains supported by older nVidia drivers using latest X.
OSS world is far from panacea when there is very few people that use your hardware configuration.
The bottom line is, NVIDIA has yet to tick me off with their binary drivers. They support their hardware and that is all that I can really demand.
(Score: 2) by Foobar Bazbot on Monday March 31 2014, @06:47PM
Maybe I'm misunderstanding what "LAN server" means, but it sounds like something that doesn't need X, and if it does, would be served fine by VBE. We have a standard interface to video cards for a reason...
(Score: 4, Interesting) by elf on Monday March 31 2014, @01:48PM
I'm in the market for a linux laptop (13-14 inch), having some good drivers makes it more likely games will run well in wine (Yes, I use wine and have had some very good success with crossover support) and will also mean I can do some opengl dev on the go.
I just need to find a decent laptop now ;)