Am 09.01.20 um 16:09 schrieb Richard Shaw:
With the AMD graphics card drivers being open sourced I'm
considering moving
away from NVidia on my next graphics card purchase but I'm concerned because
of all the driver issues I've heard about on Windows.
I'm using AMD cards for ~8 years with Fedora now.
I experienced some issues but nothing I'd consider a major blocker (I had
similar problems with intel-based gfx cards in my laptops).
These were mostly regressions and usually there was a workaround.
- There were times when there was a chance that the kernel locked up after
resuming from suspend (maybe 1/3 tries).
- Garbled screen after resume (old r600g driver, workaround was to switch to
the console + back manually)
- I have one extremly old dosbox game which will hang my GPU when using AMD's
"DC" mode with X.org. Workaround: Disable DC with kernel parameter (and
loose HDMI audio)
I'm not using accelerated video encode/decore (as far as I know) nor OpenCL
(getting ROCm to work with Fedora is a *major* pain point).
One the plus side I always had a free driver and kernel bisections were easy.
AMD cards always worked out of the box after install (though there were times
when I used mesa.git and/or AMD kernel trees for bisection). I could use
Wayland from the first day and GPU performance seems to be ok (I'm not much of
a gamer).
Also I found that the AMD mesa developers are pretty responsive if you are
able to pinpoint a regression to a specific commit.
Felix