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Is AMD open source drivers good?
Yes, they are good. The open source AMD driver maintained in the kernel tree is the primary driver developed and supported by AMD. They also have a proprietary driver, but it’s really only needed for OpenCL support (GPU compute).
NVIDIA’s proprietary driver is the only driver they support. The open source one is entirely community developed and maintained, so it will never be as functional as the proprietary one.
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I had nvidia open source driver, it sucked so badly. Fans working full force on idle, which was not neccessary for that card(GTX1060). So they said amd is better in that regard. And I love open source drivers. Is this true?
Yes, they are good. The open source AMD driver maintained in the kernel tree is the primary driver developed and supported by AMD. They also have a proprietary driver, but it’s really only needed for OpenCL support (GPU compute).
NVIDIA’s proprietary driver is the only driver they support. The open source one is entirely community developed and maintained, so it will never be as functional as the proprietary one.
In short, yes, they are good.