On Tue, 2015-06-09 at 23:28 +0200, Dan wrote: > Hi, > I would live to buy a workstation and install Jessie. I would like to > use the open source drivers for the graphic card. What would you > recommend? My choices are Nvidia or AMD. > > I checked the Nvidia/Debian wiki and the Nouveau drivers seems to work > very well: > "As of jessie, the need for the proprietary drivers is pretty much > over - nouveau now works quite well" > https://wiki.debian.org/NvidiaGraphicsDrivers > > Which open source driver is better Nouveau or AMD open source driver?
It depends quite a bit on the specific hardware. But I would not choose Nvidia on principle. They employ the least people to work on free drivers, they release the least documentation, and the latest cards might not work at all with free drivers [1]. For getting the most out of the card, performance, power management, opencl etc. I would look at AMD or Intel. If you're building a new system, you might go with Intel at first, and later buy a discrete graphics card (AMD) if you need higher performance. I've had really good feedback from both AMD and Intel when filing bugs and having problems. I'm sure the nouveau are doing their best, but there's just so much you can do without working with the manufacturer. 1. http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=NVIDIA-Unfriendly-OSS-Hardware -- Cheers, Sven Arvidsson http://www.whiz.se PGP Key ID 6FAB5CD5
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