Fedora's foundations meet proprietary drivers

Posted Sep 28, 2017 10:21 UTC (Thu) by pizza (subscriber, #46)
In reply to: Fedora's foundations meet proprietary drivers by meyert
Parent article: Fedora's foundations meet proprietary drivers

If you have modern (ie current-gen) hardware, it pretty much doesn't work at all due to a lack of signed firmware.

Older hardware works, but performance is rather lousy due to the trickery required to safely muck with clock/voltage settings that's all done in software.

Even older hardware works reasonably well, albeit not as fast as the proprietary driver.

For OpenCL, the F/OSS stack is behind the curve a bit in features, and is much slower.

For CUDA work, it's proprietary-or-nothing.