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by nemetroid 2401 days ago
AMD's open source driver is fully usable for normal usage (including gaming), and in general more performant than the closed source version.

https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=rx590-li...

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Still behind the proprietary Windows driver or Nvidia's proprietary Linux driver.
They are not behind their windows driver on OpenGL. And neither for Vulkan, I think. AMDVLK scores a few wins here and there, but RADV is generally more stable, performant, and compatible. Plus being open-source, it is easily extended, like valve is doing with their AC0 experiment [1].

Last I heard, people were installing Linux to use the AMD OpenGL drivers to play emulators (it might have been Cemu, actually ran trough wine).

[1]: XDC2019 slide deck https://xdc2019.x.org/event/5/contributions/334/attachments/...

Can you share some source of your statement?