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NVIDIA's Open GPU Linux Kernel Driver Will Soon Be The Default For Turing & Newer GPUs (www.phoronix.com)

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (2 children)

So running games in Linux using my 3080 is going to work better now?

[–] [email protected] 0 points 6 months ago

At first, it will be more stable but less performant. Performance will come with time.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 6 months ago (1 children)

I think it's more like small bugs in the kernel portion will be fixed faster. There are a lot of small patches needed to build the dkms module against the kernel as mainline and stable evolve - they're often carried in various distro packages until upstream (Nvidia) picks them up for a future release. The open driver should speed that cycle along.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 6 months ago

😁 ok thanks. I get the speeding the cycle up bit! Makes sense that it'll be easier to fix bugs if the code is open.