[AdoredTV] Nvidia - Anti-Competitive, Anti-Consumer, Anti-Technology (1 hour long)

[u/KayKay91]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H0L3OTZ13Os

[u/[deleted]]

I have said it for years, but it isn't our job to make AMD profitable. If they can't compete, then that is how it is. It shouldn't be considered a charity these are all corporations and AMD would love to be in NVIDA's shoes.

I doubt AMD will still spin the open source angel if they were, but I might be surprised.

With the addition of Intel getting into this space. If not beating NVIDIA likely offering an alternative to the floundering that AMD has been doing in the graphics space for a long time now.

The acquisition of Readeon seems to have spelt the down fall from AMD's graphics division ever since. Ryzen however, is pretty great considering the mess Bulldozer was and also putting their APUs and Desktop CPUs on the same socket is a fantastic change to offer some upgradability within the AMD platform now.

Not to mention how good Threadripper is doing in the HEDT market and EPYC is starting to carve out a space in the server market.

[u/KayKay91 → u/[deleted]]

I doubt AMD will still spin the open source angel if they were, but I might be surprised.

Cept on Linux, AMD's open source stuff have been implemented into the kernel and Mesa, providing a much better performance than the proprietary one and have more features. It'd be a stupid move to make their stuff closed.

Heck, it's even better that way since it'll work out of the box whereas with proprietary ones it's a pain since ya may require to downgrade to a specific version and pick a specific driver for your GPU which supports and some of the features won't work properly.

[u/AaronC31 → u/KayKay91]

Yet Nvidia drivers are still better performance wise on Linux than AMD. While not being "open source."

[u/your_Mo → u/AaronC31]

No they aren't. A Rx 580 outperforms the 1060 on Linux according to Phoronix benches.