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I don't think an open source driver will ever fully catch up to the proprietary ones in this case, but for people who want to use only open drivers if it eventually gets somewhat close that might be enough.
I guess? Ultimately Nvidia has like 90% plus market share in dedicated GPUs. This needs a very good solution to be acceptable for most potential users.
I guess for some applications if you get access to hardware acceleration in some form at least it's not a hard blocker, but unless your machine is very strictly dedicated to just a subset of applications who is paying a ton of money for a Nvidia GPU only to use it partially?
Ah, never mind. I'm just frustrated because I'm part of that 90% and even on the proprietary driver things have been flaky enough to get in my way. I'd still argue that the bar should be set at full usability, not remedial minimum functionality, though.
I think you're absolutely right at the high-end, but if I have a cheaper or older machine (especially laptop) and I'm not going to play AAA games on it anyway, this driver could eventually lead to decent performance with even greater stability than the proprietary ones.
Could it though?
I meant in the sense of could possibly, but I don't have a guess on how likely.
I am extrapolating on the stability thing just based on the language it's coded in, which isn't any kind of guarantee, but I think it is a good sign