Comment on The Maintainer Of The NVIDIA Open-Source "Nouveau" Linux Kernel Driver Resigns
gorogorochan@lemmy.world 9 months agoI think sadly you’d either way get much better performance with proprietary drivers especially if the focus is generative AI.
Puzzle_Sluts_4Ever@lemmy.world 9 months ago
Yeah.
The FOSS/Hobbyist Linux community will never stop talking about how much they hate the nvidia drivers. And… even among a buddy or two who work for nVidia, we make semi-sarcastic jokes about how “Hey, nvidia only killed my linux install once in the past few months”.
But for gaming purposes? I don’t play a lot of the cutting edge games, but even going by stuff like www.phoronix.com/…/nvidia-windows11-ubuntu2304 we can see that the performance is effectively parity. ~10% hit if you are going through proton but that is the kind of noise you get from having too many chrome tabs open or whatever*. If I was still a total sicko for game performance I would care more but… I am too old for that shit. I would rather still be a first class citizen than get drivers once or twice a year but… meh.
But for research/compute/data science reasons? There is absolutely zero reason to ever use the nouveau drivers for that. If you are going to buy the expensive hardware, use the expensive hardware.
*: If you DO think 10% matters? I strongly encourage watching the Gamers Nexus response/manifesto/what the fuck here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=PUeZQ3pky-w as it goes into just how much variance there is between tests with the exact same hardware and software AND is Tech Jesus having a blast.