Rewritten OpenGL drivers make AMD’s GPUs “up to 72%” faster in some pro apps

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[–]Vulptex 3 insightful - 3 fun3 insightful - 2 fun4 insightful - 3 fun -  (3 children)

OpenGL is kind of outdated anyway.

[–]notafed 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

It's still in use so improvements are a good thing.

[–]Vulptex 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

The trouble with Vulkan is that you have to write out all the boilerplate code manually. It's good that it lets you access those low-level details, but it shouldn't force you to do it for the vast majority of cases where you don't need to.

[–]SoCo[S] 3 insightful - 3 fun3 insightful - 2 fun4 insightful - 3 fun -  (7 children)

All the AMD GPUs I have, have their drivers abandoned, so likely no speedups for me.

My relevant machines are 3 Linux desktops, 2 running R9 280X, and 1 running an older AMD, something Call Of Duty Ghost edition. Their drivers have been long abandoned by manufacturer and the cool new open source Linux ones don't support that far back. Who can afford > $300 for a GPU; that's crazy.

[–]Canbot 3 insightful - 3 fun3 insightful - 2 fun4 insightful - 3 fun -  (5 children)

What we need is an open source AI that can be programmed to write drivers.

[–]Vulptex 1 insightful - 2 fun1 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 2 fun -  (4 children)

Actually that might be possible. Computers are already way better than humans at generating performant code, and drivers are straightforward enough that computers should be able to figure out what needs to be done.

[–]Canbot 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (3 children)

I think code generating AI tech is heavily censored and suppressed because those in power are afraid that it could create something that could challenge thier dominance. Most software is so complicated it need to be collaborated on and they can keep tabs on it all through spying. They can't known what an AI is building.

[–]Vulptex 2 insightful - 2 fun2 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 2 fun -  (2 children)

Their time is running out. The corporate product usually gains the initial momentum but the open source alternative always wins out in the end. The biggest problem with open source projects initially is that everyone thinks free == crappy, so the only people interested are nerds who use Linux. But eventually it catches up.

[–]Dragonerne 5 insightful - 3 fun5 insightful - 2 fun6 insightful - 3 fun -  (1 child)

You didn't learn from reddit?

Alternatives to mainstream subreddits exploded and every time that happend, they would either quarenteen the subreddit, ban it or take it over by replacing the moderators.

This kept on going until our "alternative subs" had helped grow reddit huge and they didn't need us anymore, and then they censored everything.

They will just take over the new tech like the parasites that they literally are

[–]Vulptex 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

That's not how the software world has been going. I do worry about that happening at some point, but right now censorship is at least restricted to individual platforms. However I still think all the open source ones will end up dominating, because it ends up being in corporate interests to use them. There's no reason to reinvent the wheel.

[–]NuclearBadger 2 insightful - 2 fun2 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

Before bitcoin made them gay, 300 was only for prosumers and bleeding edge stuff lol.

[–]Reed_Solomon 1 insightful - 2 fun1 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

One two three four I declare a poo war