Nvidia have an open-source driver now too, but only for 20 series cards and newer, so I can’t use it with my 1080. I’m using it at work though - I have a 3080 in my work desktop PC and a 3050Ti in my work laptop. We’ll see if that improves the drivers significantly.
The way they open-sourced it is by moving a lot of stuff that used to be in the driver into the closed-source firmware. AMD does the same thing though.
So far I have little Wayland annoyances with my Nvidia 30-series card, but I get those with proprietary AND their open drivers. In a weird way I take this as a good sign?
I feel like progress is being made. Even though Nvidia are still a bunch of butts.
(If CUDA weren’t so handy for Blender I’d strongly be considering a swap-out!)
It’s because AMD went open source with it
Nvidia have an open-source driver now too, but only for 20 series cards and newer, so I can’t use it with my 1080. I’m using it at work though - I have a 3080 in my work desktop PC and a 3050Ti in my work laptop. We’ll see if that improves the drivers significantly.
The way they open-sourced it is by moving a lot of stuff that used to be in the driver into the closed-source firmware. AMD does the same thing though.
So far I have little Wayland annoyances with my Nvidia 30-series card, but I get those with proprietary AND their open drivers. In a weird way I take this as a good sign?
I feel like progress is being made. Even though Nvidia are still a bunch of butts.
(If CUDA weren’t so handy for Blender I’d strongly be considering a swap-out!)
For what it’s worth, I’m seeing fewer bugs in Wayland compared to X11 these days.