On Tue, 13 Aug 2019 07:12:01 -0500 Javier Perez <pepebuho@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > My question is this. If I change to Radeon, how is the experience with > those cards? Is the linux driver for these cards fine? > I am not a heavy game player, mostly web browsing, and lately FreeCAD, > Meshmixer though wine, PlayonLinux, user. Probably will get into > Blender, therefore I might need a good video card, but not something > top notch, I think. I used to have nvidia, and the intermittent lockup of the nouveau driver was one of my irritants. I compile my own kernel using the Fedora test kernels, so using nvidia's binary blob was problematic. I switched to an older radeon, and it just works. I can't remember the last time I had a video issue. But, I think I am even less demanding of my video card than you are, so it might be an issue for you if you use a newer, and more powerful, card. I think they use a different driver than the radeon driver I use (amdgpu?). I think that AMD publishes the API of their cards, while nvidia doesn't, so the AMD cards open source drivers aren't reverse engineered, while nouveau has to be because of that. Thus the nouveau glitches. I recently saw an article that the video performance of intel graphics has taken a big leap forward with the latest generation. The graphs of performance in that article looked like double or more of older generations. _______________________________________________ users mailing list -- users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to users-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
