Open Source NVIDIA Drivers Are Finally Good

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• This year will be the year of breaking every single preconceived idea on Linux world.

• the big features from modern cards like dlss3 are likely to be missing from open source indefinitely, nvidia just needs to push dlss3 on their blob and any open source project will be pretty much wasted effort lol

• I am an nvidia user, i do have problems in wayland on my RTX 2060, so still using X11, but what i am really am looking for, is an API of translation of OpenCL to Vulkan, or CUDA to Vulkan, so my multimedia Graphics softwares, 3d packages, or any graphics card oriented software uses to render their stuff, to work. i'm looking forward for the dispute of AMD AMF, NVENC and QSV to explode.

• The year of the Linux desktop?

• A side note, this won't include CUDA, so anyone who is basically forced to use Nvidia for that reason is out of luck.

• As "good" as the Nouveau drivers have gotten, they still don't even support hardware video acceleration on anything newer than Pascal. This is pretty much a complete dealbreaker until that is implemented. Just tried to watch a youtube video on a 3080 under Nouveau and it was dropping about 50% of the frames.

• Yeah, support for 1650 with open source drivers haven't been that great so far (I tried it once a while back and it barely ran Minecraft at 50fps or something with a few graphical glitches). Even the proprietary drivers are kind of bad, because the performance is always something like 10%-20% worse on Linux compared to Windows, which is a big difference on that card. On a higher end GPU you may get playable frame rates, but it's the low to mid range that really suffers on Linux. I'm still dual booting to Windows for games because of that.

• I'll trade you a gtx980 for a radeon7 😂

• 11:10 gotta say, open source drivers being good is a real weird reason to use the proprietary ones. nVidia are still assholes for having proprietary drivers in the first place, and it seems like not much of the credit for the open source drivers goes to them…

• Now we just need 7900xtx drivers

• This is good news especially for SteamOS 3 ISO for DIY or OEM.
  I think the reason why Valve not releasing SteamOS 3 for every device is because Nvidia GPU, but if this FOSS driver keep improving I can see SteamOS 3 DIY Beta is out soon maybe 3-6 months.

• Just play Linux on hard mode already, I've been doing it for the last few years and lived. I swear I'm completely sane after using laptops with NVIDIA cards in them.

• Nouveau is good now? Color me fucking shocked – especially since Nouveau used to be the butt of all of my jokes about graphics drivers on Linux.

• I somehow a bit skeptical about this unless nvidia had a direct contribution … nvidia drivers have a lot of proprietary stuff linked to RTX and DLSS and AI stuff and whatnot.

• We are working on things, youll never understand in your lifetime.

• With the recent price gouging and "We would like to focus on miners and vapor A.I" attitude on the side of NV in mind i don't think you'd see me fawning over their slabs anytime soon.
  The fact that they have the same attitude toward oss driver as Linus Torvalds has towards NV is just another nail in the coffin. Alongside dubious engineering and production (melting connectors, boards bending and breaking under their own weight, etc)
  Almost 20 years ago, i bought a g Force 200 MX (afair) and it was the last bit of NV i ever touched, because for a long time they where far from being a competition to ATI and later, when they found their footing again, they developed an attitude that was far from resonating with me.

• Kudos to Noveau. However, because of the way NVidia works, and how anti-open it is, I wouldn't bet on it.

• Why don't you just switch to Windows?

• This is good, but I still have mixed feelings. Nvidia makes good hardware, but they're actively hostile to the open source community with signed drivers/firmware (forgive me for inaccuracies; I've moved to AMD and Intel and haven't looked into this for years). I love the fact that people way smarter than me have managed to build or reverse-engineer or integrate an open source driver, but it's also a bit spoiled for me because of whose hardware I'd be buying and that they could make an even more hostile card at any point in future.

• Does hardware encoding/decoding work in nouveau?

• god dammit can we ever get to say the same thing about broadcom ever? you do not know how hard and how much have failed and struggled with broadcom and getting Wi-Fi to work at all.

• Is the (kind of mild) screen tearing all over the place a thing on later generations of cards? On 10xx cards with the proprietary NVIDIA driver there is screen tearing in games, when watching a video or even just moving windows around. Has there been any progress on fixing this with open drivers or otherwise?

• Do you plan to upload your videos to peertube as well?

• So my 2018 Predator with GTX 1060 is thrash?

• the thought of open source drivers getting better the proprietary on its own is already amusing, if what you said at the end becomes true then i would even dare to call it funny

• I hate your hair situation. The videos are generally okay though.

• Got to love it, but there is a still a good bit of work remaining to boost them 1% lows, but at this rate, we might get there in 2024!

• How important was Nvidia opening up their kernel module?

• I really need cuda support and that is likely going to be a while

• I currently have a RX5500 which is fine, but I would like an upgrade. Newer AMD GPUs use more power, which is a nogo in Denmark because the electricity is really pricey.. so, I looked at a nvidia 4060 which uses less power and performs way better. However, Im currently on Wayland, and Im not sure how well nvidia works with wayland.. so, Ill wait until NVK is working well and nvidia works with wayland 🙂

  Didnt know about nvk before I saw this video though. You are really producing a lot of great content!

• Hoping they get some good support for older cards (my laptop uses 1050). I would love to use open source NVIDIA driver on that thing. Been using Nouveau on it for a while and it works great other than gaming.

• Even if you don't have an Nvidia GPU, it is a great news for the adoption of Linux for those doing the switch. Lets not forget that most people have one of those in their computer.

• Between Wayland becoming mainstream, Flatpak, color correction/HDR and NVK 2024 has the highest chance of becoming the year of the linux desktop XD

• RIP, I guess the pipe dream of AMD clawing back market share through Linux is dead.
  As a linux user, this is a complete win.
  As a PC gamer, it is a little more murky. I do hope Nvdia pricing improves. I do worry that these open source stuff cant use DLSS and other features on NVdia GPU as i assume that is mostly on the driver level.

• what is the chance that valve is waiting for nvk before releasing the general release of steam-os

• no pascal love? 🙁

• THE YEAR OF THE LINUX DESKTOP frfr

• Buy 1060 and run Wayland on it.

• Am I right in assuming that the drivers that came with my System76 laptop with an Nvidia GPU are the binary blob versions?

• What I miss is AMD MGPU benchmarks. Multiple AMD GPU are possible, there is a web page on AMD site about it, and nobody writes or talk about it. I do not care if they do not scale well, I just want to know how much they do not scale well, or if they scale well which motherboards support it bettter.

• New here, anyone used one of those drivers for like a Nvidia 650M laptop?

• NVK and why i do not care about NVK 2 acronyms: NVENC and CUDA

• In hindsight, 2023 was the year of the Linux desktop. Now we await the aftershock.

• While I'm very happy with my AMD GPU, I'm glad to see a much bigger improvement to NVIDIA GPUs on Linux 🙂

• for people who want to use nvidia, this is amazing. personally it won't change anything for me though, cause linux drivers were just one part of the problem. i absolutely despise nvidia and will never buy their product again.

• does this mean we can finally get a wlroots compositor like hyprland without glitches and also properly supporting display out on (nvidia) laptops?

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