<story><title>AMD Open Source Driver for Vulkan</title><url>https://github.com/GPUOpen-Drivers/AMDVLK</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>tombert</author><text>I can&amp;#x27;t speak for anyone else, but because AMD has been opening up their drivers, the laptop I purchased six months ago was AMD based.&lt;p&gt;I haven&amp;#x27;t done any kind of elaborate benchmarks, but as someone who runs Linux full-time, I want to support companies that make my life a bit easier.&lt;p&gt;That said, I have had some issue with my computer having some weird graphical glitches, and then crashing...I don&amp;#x27;t know if that&amp;#x27;s the drivers fault but I never had this with my NVidia or Intel cards...</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>dpwm</author><text>October 2016 I built an AMD-based desktop with integrated GPU. I was seriously impressed at the out-the-box support in Linux compared with the support for their earlier chipsets.&lt;p&gt;I seem to remember at around the same time that the Intel open source drivers went through a number of regressions.&lt;p&gt;In the past I&amp;#x27;ve had really bad experiences with ATI&amp;#x27;s GPUs. My 2016 experience would certainly allay my fears about buying AMD.</text></comment>
<story><title>AMD Open Source Driver for Vulkan</title><url>https://github.com/GPUOpen-Drivers/AMDVLK</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>tombert</author><text>I can&amp;#x27;t speak for anyone else, but because AMD has been opening up their drivers, the laptop I purchased six months ago was AMD based.&lt;p&gt;I haven&amp;#x27;t done any kind of elaborate benchmarks, but as someone who runs Linux full-time, I want to support companies that make my life a bit easier.&lt;p&gt;That said, I have had some issue with my computer having some weird graphical glitches, and then crashing...I don&amp;#x27;t know if that&amp;#x27;s the drivers fault but I never had this with my NVidia or Intel cards...</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>tatref</author><text>I supported AMD several years because of this... Then I got tired of the low quality of both the open source, and the closed driver. Crashes, glitches in movies, flickering...&lt;p&gt;Some time ago, I bought an Nvidia. It works like charm with the closed driver on Linux and windows. I do mainly games on Linux&amp;#x2F;windows, some gpgpu (machine learning with tensor flow), and the usual stuff. I couldn&amp;#x27;t be happier... Except if it was open source ;-)</text></comment>