Hi all,
I’m in the market for a new big desktop replacement gaming laptop, and looking at the market there are almost exclusively Nvidia powered.
I was wondering about the state of their new open-source driver. Can I run a plain vanilla kernel with only open source / upstream packages and drivers and expect to get a good experience? How is battery life, performance? Does DRI Prime and Vulkan based GPU selection “just work”?
The only alternative new for my market is a device with an Intel Arc A730M, which I currently think is going to be the one I end up buying.
These cards have been out for years…
https://www.tomshardware.com/pc-components/gpu-drivers/intels-new-gpu-drivers-boost-performance-up-to-750-in-dx11
If you’re re-writing drivers and getting a 50% boost in performance, your implementation is fucking tragic.
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Mesa-23.0.2-Released
This mesa release had a draw bug for intel GPUs that was over 2 years old.
It’s BAD bad in Intel land. I want them to be good, but they just are not.
Just get an AMD card and be done with it. Making things unnecessarily complicated is something us engineers do for fun because we enjoy the headaches, not because we’re trying to play Starfield.