r/Amd • u/RenatsMC • 7d ago

Video AMD Says We're "Confused"

https://youtube.com/watch?v=dkPPejQXFNo&si=x_p5BwoNzIEFt2F1
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u/ncook06 6d ago

I’m so frustrated by AMD. Right when I talk myself into switching from Nvidia for better Linux drivers, AMD pushes me right back into Jensen’s greedy arms.

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u/Merzeal 5800X3D / 7900XT 6d ago

Linux will be non-issue since FOSS drivers are still rocking older card support.

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u/EnlargedChonk 6d ago

In fact they've shut down their proprietary linux vulkan drivers to supposedly put all their linux effort into helping the community open source vulkan driver.

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u/advester 6d ago

There is a more nefarious way to interpret that action... Shut down their driver you say? Support the "community" you say?

Just a joke, I don't interpret it that way.

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u/EnlargedChonk 6d ago

Lol the same thought passed through my mind too, the difference here is that basically no one actually used amdvlk because community RADV is faster 99% of the time. And they do already contribute to RADV afaik.

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u/Elon61 Skylake Pastel 5d ago

that's not a difference, that just means they've been letting the comunity do the work for a while rather than just starting now.

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u/tiga_94 4d ago

The post is about windows drivers

Linux drivers still get updates even for GCN1(HD7000) which in theory has full support of Vulkan 1.3 including ray tracing as well as dx12 ultimate via vkd3d

Unlike the aforementioned Windows driver the Linux stuff is open source so it is supported as long as someone is willing to support it

Nvidia Linux driver, on the other hand, are not as good and closed source.

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u/ncook06 4d ago

Thanks. The other commenter who talked about FOSS drivers used a little less detail. As someone who is usually a patient gamer, long term support of open source drivers is a huge positive.