Linux Gaming

15842 readers

10 users here now

Gaming on the GNU/Linux operating system.

Recommended news sources:

Related chat:

Related Communities:

Please be nice to other members. Anyone not being nice will be banned. Keep it fun, respectful and just be awesome to each other.

founded 4 years ago

MODERATORS

[email protected]

all AMD-PC do I need the proprietary drivers (discuss.tchncs.de)

submitted 8 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

19 comments fedilink hide all child comments

Should I use the proprietary drivers? How much fps do I loose if I use the open drivers? I use ChimeraOS (Arch Linux)

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments

[–] [email protected] 64 points 8 months ago (5 children)

No. The open source drivers are better at almost everything. The only reasons to use the propriatary one is if you need some OpenCL improvements of if you are using a Radeon Pro GPU. For normal usage and gaming the open source driver will offer more performance and better compatibility.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (3 children)

if you need some OpenCL improvements

As far as I can tell mesa and the proprietary drivers both use the ROCm packages for OpenCL. I don't think there's actually a difference on that front.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 8 months ago

Mesa has its own OpenCL implementations for AMD GPUs too: Clover and RustiCL. However, Clover is not really developed any more (afaik) and lacks some important extensions, such that many programs can't use it. RustiCL is rather new, and I don't know how well it works.

load more comments (2 replies)

load more comments (3 replies)