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And yet, 10 years ago the situation was exactly reversed, with ATi sabotaging early DirectX 9 to run worse on Nvidia cards, and ATi pushing a huge pile of propr
by creshal 11y ago
And yet, 10 years ago the situation was exactly reversed, with ATi sabotaging early DirectX 9 to run worse on Nvidia cards, and ATi pushing a huge pile of proprietary solutions nobody ended up caring about – like TruForm (ATi brand tessellation) or Close-to-Metal (predecessor to Nvidia's CUDA, only when that proved more successful did ATi switch to pushing OpenCL).
Brand loyalty is useless, because brands don't care about consumers.
- ant6n 11y agoAMD is so far behind at this point that it will take many years before they can leverage a strong market position to try to push some proprietary solution. If they survive at all.
- drzaiusapelord 11y agoThis seems unfair considering ATI was bought by AMD and now has completely different leadership. The recent moves towards FOSS are pretty much post AMD buyout.
- unholythree 11y agoI agree, at the moment I use mostly AMD at home [i]because[/i] the lower end server processors I can afford don't have the feature sets gimped like Intel, and their consumer GPUs support IOMMU passthrough that NVIDIA needlessly restricts to professional cards. It may only be their weak market share that inspires their generosity, but it's hooked me and certainly has me rooting for their continued existence.