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Absolutely for gaming, Nvidia has a very loyal fanbase (myself included since the 4600GTX days) but for data centers? Different ball game. Both companies are no
by partiallypro 8y ago
Absolutely for gaming, Nvidia has a very loyal fanbase (myself included since the 4600GTX days) but for data centers? Different ball game. Both companies are now pushing into that territory pretty hard.
- shmerl 8y agoAt least Linux gaming shows negative trend for Nvidia (though it's still a big majority), and for the obvious reason - AMD provide open source drivers which have become very competitive lately. See: https://www.gamingonlinux.com/index.php?module=statistics&view=trends https://www.gamingonlinux.com/index.php?module=statistics&vi...
- mrtweetyhack 8y agoThat' not a huge loss for Nvidia
- pavon 8y agoI'd say CUDA has an even bigger lead over OpenCL than Nvidia has over AMD in the gaming market.
- shmerl 8y agoNot CUDA itself, but lock-in of various libraries that are CUDA-only. No one stops you from making a library that works with OpenCL or Vulkan for example for compute purposes.
- alfalfasprout 8y agoNo one stops you but it's a huge time investment. It's not only CUDA... it's the massive amount of optimized libraries NVIDIA provides. For example, CuBLAS (linear algebra libraries), CuDNN (libraries for deep learning). These things really need massive engineering teams to pull off and are very tied to the hardware.
- shmerl 8y agoSo there should be combined effort to make such libraries that are cross hardware. If many people need it, why don't they pool resources and create open libraries like that?