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NVIDIA's Open GPU Linux Kernel Driver Will Soon Be The Default For Turing & Newer GPUs (www.phoronix.com)
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[-] Beaver@lemmy.ca 13 points 7 months ago

There it is folks! The predication has come true.

[-] sabreW4K3@lazysoci.al 8 points 7 months ago

What prediction?

[-] kakes@sh.itjust.works 20 points 7 months ago

The prediction that NVIDIA's open GPU Linux kernel driver would be the default for Turing and newer GPUs, I assume.

[-] sabreW4K3@lazysoci.al 13 points 7 months ago

Wasn't Nvidia always notoriously bad with their driver support on Linux?

[-] mihnt@lemmy.ca 17 points 7 months ago

For 20+ years now, yes.

[-] Beaver@lemmy.ca 8 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

The prediction that we will have decent open source NVIDIA drivers this year.

[-] d00ery@lemmy.world 9 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

So running games in Linux using my 3080 is going to work better now?

[-] seaQueue@lemmy.world 9 points 7 months ago

I think it's more like small bugs in the kernel portion will be fixed faster. There are a lot of small patches needed to build the dkms module against the kernel as mainline and stable evolve - they're often carried in various distro packages until upstream (Nvidia) picks them up for a future release. The open driver should speed that cycle along.

[-] d00ery@lemmy.world 2 points 7 months ago

😁 ok thanks. I get the speeding the cycle up bit! Makes sense that it'll be easier to fix bugs if the code is open.

[-] warmaster@lemmy.world 5 points 7 months ago

At first, it will be more stable but less performant. Performance will come with time.

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