NVIDIA, AMD, Intel Explain How OpenGL Can Unlock 15x Performance Gains, With Slides

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Quoting: AnonymousJust wondering Liam what GPU have you got and how is it in Linux?

Nvidia 560ti and it's fine :)

Lucky :P Sorry for my rant earlier on. Just bit fed up with AMD linux support that all.

Hey, friend; I know exactly how you feel. I got a rig with a GTX 645 a month or so to replace my AMD computer and I haven't looked back. :)

is it just me or no one noticed this? there is much more important news here than x* speed. the 3 big companies seem to be openly collaborating instead of competing for the first time with huge improvement

AMD RadeonSI is coming along it performs well at this point, everything older is doing really well. Some graphical error but no more than the opensource intel driver. Very smooth gameplay for it's lack of raw FPS.
AMD catalyst is running great. No more giant memory leaks and performances is damn good. GPU lock ups using things like wine are also vanishing. Higher fps and lower power consumption than the opensauce one.
Intel does pretty good, unlike what most people say I think the driver lags behind Windows by some margin (this is true for all Linux drivers). Some graphical errors but for the most part one of the better Linux experiences.
Nvidia Their binary is top notch, it has been slipping as of late and there is a performance impact in some games (e.g. MLL) vs Windows despite what phoronix may say. Again it lags behind it's Windows counterpart but mostly in utility and features as the performances is very acceptable.


I own all the cards, I use them all. I love everyone parroting things they don't know anything about.
Go NVIDIA! unless you want to use the latest xorgserver and kernel because they have been lagging.
Go Intel! Wintel is a thing. Intel supports Linux but are they themselves becoming more DRM friendly and lest not forget how evil this corp is and has been.
Go AMD! Support?... Support?... Support?... Bueller?

Seriously people, all your parroting without owning products you're talking about is mind numbingly awful. STFU unless you OWN/currently use them.

QuoteWhat nVidia GPU have you got?

I have an Nvidia GTX 680 running the Nvidia 334 drivers on Ubuntu 13.10 currently :)

QuoteThe Intel drivers are fantastic, their hardware is the bottleneck.

I agree with you on the hardware being a bottleneck, but the drivers aren't that good yet. I just recently tried running Portal 2 on my Intel HD4600 2 days ago, and can barely keep 20 fps at 1920x1080 with everything else set to maximum low or off. Yet, in Dota 2 with the same settings I can reach 120 fps. There isn't a proper consistency in the Intel driver yet (at least not on Ubuntu in my test runs). Still leaves a lot left to be desired in terms of performance.

QuoteSTFU unless you OWN/currently use them.

I'm pretty certain we're all speaking from personal experience with our own hardware here. Don't rush to assumptions too fast.

Quoting: pd12[...]the solution to crappy Windows and D3D is not WINE[...]

Moreover there is the Oracle v. Google appeal ruling still in the air (maybe this summer?). I'm not competent in legislation but if API will be considered covered by copyright law (most likely reading about the appeal) and a different implementation isn't fair use (this is the answer I'm nervous about), anyone using WINE could be easily targeted by Microsoft, and Valve, as a Microsoft competitor, would have an hard time defending.

Quoting: AnonymousSeriously people, all your parroting without owning products you're talking about is mind numbingly awful. STFU unless you OWN/currently use them.

Well, Intel works fine in my brother's laptop for the admittedly low-intensity gaming he does, and I love the Radeon HD 4670 with R600g that I have in my machine. Handles all the gaming I want to do with decent performance and good thermal output, especially when considering all the driver improvements that have happened over the past year. The Radeon HD 5750 that I recommended to my other brother has also been running really well, except for a few minor issues regarding HyperZ.

At this point I would never touch a blob driver - it is just too difficult to maintain, especially since I use either Arch or Fedora which tend to operate fairly close to upstream.

This is wonderful news. Now if more developers would get on ship with OpenGL and Valve would get it's steam os out things will really start rolling. I think all PC gamer's are sick of the control M$ has held for way to long with it's DX. And I am not convinced that AMD's mantle is the true answer to DX as well. I just hope Nvidia keeps their word about how strong they are working with OpenGL and they do not bail out on it when DX12 does hit the market.