During CES 2019 held last week in Vegas, many of the large hardware manufacturers, as well as companies that develop software released their latest news, as well as their plans for the future.
In this AMD was not far behind and unveiled several of its new products that will be joining its current catalog during this year, You can check this in the following link.
And it is that AMD does not want to be left behind Well, during the CES it unveiled its new graphics cards, which are intended to be a more satisfactory solution than those offered by its great rival AMD.
Also during this event AMD has reaffirmed its commitment to Linux users and to raise not only expectations, but also to improve the development and functionality of its Linux drivers.
After the AMD development team started distributing their driver directly to the Linux kernel, the company's hardware owners are receiving performance improvements and new implementations with each release.
The evolution of the AMDGPU, as well as the open source driver, is notable compared to the discontinued Catalyst / fglrx.
AMD wants to regain ground on Linux users
With this it seems that the AMD team has been paying more attention to the Linux platform, since version 4.21 of the Linux Kernel is full of news for AMD users.
One of them is FreeSync and adaptive-Sync support, which helps in eliminating lags and frame rate variations, dynamically adjusting the refresh rate.
How to Live Aligned with Resulting from this, a smooth gameplay can be obtained without inconveniences, such as Tearing and screen traces, in the gameplay.
Some of you may recall that FreeSync was announced in 2014, to compete with its G-Sync competitor, Nvidia's technology, which basically has the adaptive sync feature.
However, Adaptation-Sync is a DisplayPort and HDMI specification, developed by the International VESA Organization, which aims to standardize the operation of video peripherals in computers.
FreeSync uses Adaptive-Sync protocols in conjunction with hardware and software to provide smoother, distortion-free, low-latency hardware that supports it.
Other technologies incorporated in AMD in Linux Kernel 4.21 that can be highlighted are the adaptive backlight management, which reduces the level of the backlight to save energy by increasing contrast and pixel brightness for better readability and quality.
And on the other hand we have ROCM, which is the one that is loaded in the interaction between the CPU and the GPU, which increases the performance of the calculation tasks on the computer.
The Linux kernel will support ROCM on the input graphics processors, the Polaris architecture on the RX 400 and Vega 12 series video cards.
With this we can expect improvements for users of AMD GPUs in Linux, with functionalities that did not exist before in AMDGPU.
Will AMD be able to regain the trust of Linux users?
Without more alone It remains to wait and see how the work of AMD develops during this year towards Linux, since one of the main problems of this is the delivery of its graphic driver.
That leaves a bad taste in the mouth of many of us who have a computer with a graphics card, processor or a dedicated graphics card.
Well, in recent years there has been a great shift on the part of AMD towards Linux users where those who received the most current and continuous support were those who acquired their most recent products.
And those who had a product for one, two or more years, the support would be stagnant or flat, you had to opt for open drivers or use versions of the Xorg compatible with the latest version of the driver offered.
These improvements will surely be for their recent products, those of us that have previous ones will continue to be anchored to the free driver, which although it works much better than NVidia's free ones, features and functions only found in the proprietary application are very lacking: make a switch between the dedicated graphics and the integrated one according to the needs (currently the dedicated graphics machine is disabled by default), modify contrast parameters because in my case the screen is impotable with a yellowish tint that tires and forces to use the Redshift application with a file of modified and customized configuration to return the whites and pastels (without that application the truth would not be able to use GNU / Linux), among other parameters. An absolute displeasure that the Srs of AMD cause me ... but of course ... I cannot and I have no right to complain, all this is free as some developers scold.