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NVIDIA's Open GPU Linux Kernel Driver Will Soon Be The Default For Turing & Newer GPUs

Just a moment...

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There it is folks! The predication has come true.
- What prediction?
  
  The prediction that NVIDIA's open GPU Linux kernel driver would be the default for Turing and newer GPUs, I assume.
  
  The prediction that we will have decent open source NVIDIA drivers this year.
So running games in Linux using my 3080 is going to work better now?
- I think it's more like small bugs in the kernel portion will be fixed faster. There are a lot of small patches needed to build the dkms module against the kernel as mainline and stable evolve - they're often carried in various distro packages until upstream (Nvidia) picks them up for a future release. The open driver should speed that cycle along.
  
  😁 ok thanks. I get the speeding the cycle up bit! Makes sense that it'll be easier to fix bugs if the code is open.
- At first, it will be more stable but less performant. Performance will come with time.
- What the fuck are you talking about?

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