Ubuntu acting choppy?

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AMDFanboy_1

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I thought it was just youtube vids but i realized that my whole computer is acting choppy (ubuntu) got any ideas? I checked htop and everything seems fine. what could it be
 
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Nvidia proprietary driver delivers good 3d performance (nvidia still king for gaming on linux) on par with windows but nvidia go out of their way to provide as little hardware documentation and signed firmwares so that the open source driver, nouevo, is not good.

Amd open source driver is very good and generally recommended over catalyst because frankly catalyst sucks. It only offers moderate fps gains in 3d games at the expense of headaches like only supporting older xorg and older kernel and having to rebuild kernel modules on every upgrade.
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Are you still reading the replies on your other posted threads? Look at my last reply on your AMD drivers thread and check your driver version... and if there is a recommended proprietary driver available choose to activate that one, then wait the minutes necessary to complete the download and installation (it is automatic). Even if it looks like nothing is happening, wait until it tells you to reboot.
 
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For the first section on top it says using video driver for AMD graphics accelerators from fglrx.(proprietary) which is one that im using..than on the bottom section where it says unknown it says this device is using an alternative driver followed by:using processor microcode firmware for AMD CPU's from amd64-microcode.(proprietary)
 
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junkeymonkey

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have you looked over at this site to get some incite on amd and Linux these days ??

http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=AMD-Crimson-Pre-GCN

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http://www.phoronix.com/forums/forum/linux-graphics-x-org-drivers/amd-linux/836298-latest-on-amd-crimson-for-linux-supports-4-x-kernels-drops-pre-gcn-gpus

http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=ubuntu-1604-kaveri&num=1

you can look all the reviews over and see intel and NVidia is now hardware of choice , AMD has just got behind some what .

then I will admit I had less ''issues'' with mint 15 then I do mint 17 its just enough to say ,hmmmmm......

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http://www.phoronix.com/forums/forum/linux-graphics-x-org-drivers/open-source-amd-linux/853189-audio-over-hdmi-tonga-and-amdgpu
 
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skittle

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you can look all the reviews over and see intel and NVidia is now hardware of choice , AMD has just got behind some what
Click to expand...

Only true for nvidia proprietary driver.

The AMD opensource driver is considered on par feature wise with the proprietary driver and much easier to manage. It only lacks a bit on 3D performance (some less fps). The nvidia opensource driver not as good.
 
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keep reading how well the nvidia proprietary driver.

''but the AMD Catalyst driver is still in need of more optimizations as outlined a few days ago in How To Make CS:GO Run Much Faster On AMD Catalyst For ''

''the NVIDIA graphics cards continued to dominate over the AMD Radeon GPUs on Catalyst... To the point that the GeForce GTX 760 and 960 were even faster than the Radeon R9 290. ''

http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=amdnv-4k-15gpu&num=1

disaster on linux
http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=amd-r9-fury&num=1

[under Linux with Catalyst or just deliver shockingly bad performance]

''NVIDIA's driver continues to deliver optimal performance on Linux when it comes to modern games available via Steam, however, the AMD Catalyst Linux driver is still going through a maturing state. The AMD Catalyst Linux driver has been making improvements more aggressively in the past year or so, but as shown by these results, there's still cases where the games are missrendering under Linux with Catalyst or just deliver shockingly bad performance.''

http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=amdnv-phoronix-11&num=6


but to be honest I use a hd 7850 on mint 17 [and mint 15 before ] and seems to do good to me things run and look fine [I guess seeing I don't have a NVidia card to see ] so maybe a bunch of hog wash above??




 
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Nvidia proprietary driver delivers good 3d performance (nvidia still king for gaming on linux) on par with windows but nvidia go out of their way to provide as little hardware documentation and signed firmwares so that the open source driver, nouevo, is not good.

Amd open source driver is very good and generally recommended over catalyst because frankly catalyst sucks. It only offers moderate fps gains in 3d games at the expense of headaches like only supporting older xorg and older kernel and having to rebuild kernel modules on every upgrade.
 
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