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Meh, nothing like having the official AMD video drivers crashing several times a day on Ubuntu with a flagship Sapphire RX 7900 XTX. And if you're extra lucky it will kick you out of the session too.
Why would you use the official ones? Mesa is better
Yeah I don't think I've had a single crash with the mesa drivers after my overclock was dialed in. And I've ran some pretty janky stuff (like my vega 56 that was flashed with a 64 bios).
Are you talking from personal experience? If so, I might give them a try.
I tought AMD official drivers where the best option for graphics and performance.
Yes, personal experience, but also from benchmarks, the open source mesa drivers are just faster at this point, unless you're turning on raytracing in everything.
Nah, I may play around with raytracing in the future, but it's not a must for me.
Well, I will give the open source drivers a try, thanks.
How is ROCm these days? I remember needing the official AMD drivers for OpenCL stuff a while ago and ROCm was in very early development.
For ROCm you need the official drivers. For OpenCL, RustiCL (OpenCL implemented over Vulkan) works perfectly for me.
How are Intel's drivers? My new PC has an A750 because I like to live dangerously. It's been great in Windows for the few games I want to play (the older stuff that has performance issues with Arc I'm largely not interested in or can play on my old PC)
Sorry, I don't know. I ended up with a full AMD build.
Intel has historically had very good Linux drivers. Last time I checked (8 months ago), there were still some bugs when the cards were new, but I'm sure they're mostly ironed out by now.
The drivers themselves are fine, but the problem is game compatibility. Several games require you to fake your card vendor so that the game thinks you're on nVidia or something, but even then, there may be some compatibility issues.
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Intel-Graphics-Hogwarts-Legacy