10 Reasons Linux Gamers Might Want To Pass On The NVIDIA RTX 20 Series
In Summary : Continuing on from the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 expectations on Linux shared earlier this week, here's a list of ten reas...
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In Summary :
Continuing on from the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 expectations on Linux shared earlier this week, here's a list of ten reasons why Linux gamers might want to pass on these soon-to-launch graphics cards from NVIDIA.
The list are various reasons you may want to think twice on these graphics cards -- at least not for pre-ordering any of them right away. Not all of them are specific to the Turing GPUs per se but also some NVIDIA Linux infrastructure problems or general Linux gaming challenges, but here's the list for those curious. And, yes, a list is coming out soon with reasons Linux users may want to consider the RTX 20 series -- well, mostly for developers / content creators it may make sense. Our Linux benchmarks of the GeForce RTX 2080 when available at least will clear up a lot more about the state of Turing for Linux, but so far it seems the launch is much more exciting on the Windows side...
- The most obvious reason some Linux users immediately write-off NVIDIA... Lack of open-source driver support. If you want to fully leverage the GeForce RTX 20 "Turing" hardware or even Maxwell and Pascal graphics cards, it's really only viable using the closed-source proprietary graphics driver for maximum performance and features. There is no open-source Turing support today and even if there was it will likely be plagued by the same Maxwell2/Pascal limitations of no re-clocking support -- meaning the GPU on the open-source driver is stuck to performing at the very low clock frequencies programmed by the hardware at boot/initialization time. It's still with the GeForce 600/700 "Kepler" graphics cards as the last generation having decent open-source Nouveau support at this time. It used to be that if you preferred open-source driver support, you had to sacrifice a lot of the performance/gaming potential, but thanks to AMD and Valve that turned around over the past few years that there are quite competent open-source driver offerings on the red side. [...]
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https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=10-Reasons-Pass-RTX-20-Linux
Continuing on from the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 expectations on Linux shared earlier this week, here's a list of ten reasons why Linux gamers might want to pass on these soon-to-launch graphics cards from NVIDIA.
The list are various reasons you may want to think twice on these graphics cards -- at least not for pre-ordering any of them right away. Not all of them are specific to the Turing GPUs per se but also some NVIDIA Linux infrastructure problems or general Linux gaming challenges, but here's the list for those curious. And, yes, a list is coming out soon with reasons Linux users may want to consider the RTX 20 series -- well, mostly for developers / content creators it may make sense. Our Linux benchmarks of the GeForce RTX 2080 when available at least will clear up a lot more about the state of Turing for Linux, but so far it seems the launch is much more exciting on the Windows side...
- The most obvious reason some Linux users immediately write-off NVIDIA... Lack of open-source driver support. If you want to fully leverage the GeForce RTX 20 "Turing" hardware or even Maxwell and Pascal graphics cards, it's really only viable using the closed-source proprietary graphics driver for maximum performance and features. There is no open-source Turing support today and even if there was it will likely be plagued by the same Maxwell2/Pascal limitations of no re-clocking support -- meaning the GPU on the open-source driver is stuck to performing at the very low clock frequencies programmed by the hardware at boot/initialization time. It's still with the GeForce 600/700 "Kepler" graphics cards as the last generation having decent open-source Nouveau support at this time. It used to be that if you preferred open-source driver support, you had to sacrifice a lot of the performance/gaming potential, but thanks to AMD and Valve that turned around over the past few years that there are quite competent open-source driver offerings on the red side. [...]
kindly refer the following link as follow up :
https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=10-Reasons-Pass-RTX-20-Linux
