On 20.07.2016 06:44, Edward O'Callaghan wrote: > Hi Fred, > > On 07/20/2016 07:53 AM, auspicious at inventati.org wrote: >> Dear mailing list subscribers, >> >> I hope this is the right place to ask because I was unable to find any >> other mailing list. Currently I am using an NVIDIA GTX 980 Ti and either >> the proprietary driver has to be used to get any 2D / 3D things to work, >> like showing the operating system at all, or proprietary firmware has to >> be loaded in combination with nouveau (which I have no experience with). >> >> I want an out-of-the-box free software driver experience with no >> non-free mess. > > Short and sweet story is: As far as getting asymptotically close to the > libre optimal with high-end GPU's, realistically, amdgpu + mesa radeonsi > is absolutely the best your going to get. > >> >> Will AMDGPU provide this? Do I need to mess with non-free firmware >> stuff? What is the highest end AMD card to combine with AMDGPU? Right >> now I am quite comfortable with Debian testing which has Linux kernel >> 4.6 in use. > > You don't need to mess with firmware, a little bit of microcode is > needed but that is included in linux-firmware and is part of all major > distro's - Fedora wells very well, can't see why Debian would not work > equality well. > >> >> I am looking to play modern Valve games at highest performance. Low >> settings is usually preferred at 1280x1024. A stable 240+ FPS on games >> like Counter-Strike: Global Offensive is welcome to prepare for native >> 240 Hz monitors that are coming out this year. > > Any GCN card should work out the box perfectly fine with 4.6+ kernel's. For Polaris / RX480 you need 4.7. Agreed with the rest of your mail :) Cheers, Nicolai > As for the exact expected fps perf, its not perfect every time but now > focus is almost exclusively on perf so should rapidly improve. It's not > bad, its just not perfect, but _pretty decent right now_. > > Hope this helps, > Edward. > >> >> Sincerely yours, >> Fred >> _______________________________________________ >> amd-gfx mailing list >> amd-gfx at lists.freedesktop.org >> https://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/amd-gfx > > > > _______________________________________________ > amd-gfx mailing list > amd-gfx at lists.freedesktop.org > https://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/amd-gfx >
