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AMD is blocked by being not versatile enough. Their consumer cards support neither AI nor do they have good Linux drivers. Of course, the average gamer doesn't
by fxtentacle 7y ago
AMD is blocked by being not versatile enough. Their consumer cards support neither AI nor do they have good Linux drivers.
Of course, the average gamer doesn't care, but developers do. And as the result, almost all the video games - their core sales driver - are not as thoroughly optimized and tested on AMD as they are on the (likely overpriced) NVIDIA cards that developers use in their own home rigs.
- _bxg1 7y agoI don't think there's much overlap between AI developers/Linux users and game developers. Of course the former market matters too, but I really doubt it has an effect on the gaming market.
- fxtentacle 7y agoSince some studios use Linux data processing pipelines or dabble with deep learning for procedural content generation, I don't see how they could buy anything except for NVIDIA for their staff at the moment.
- imtringued 7y agoI chose an AMD card specifically because of their great Linux drivers. Building a system on top of proprietary drivers is a non starter for me. Being heavily dependent on a vendor to support your platform has bitten me multiple times and it's especially frustrating when a proprietary software company uses something like electron but never ships a Linux release. Running these applications in wine is a complete pain in the ass and doesn't even work 90% of the time.
- new_realist 7y agoI’ve found amdgpu to be a terrible driver for high end displays; 8K doesn’t work, for example.
- t4h4 7y agoFYI, 8K/4K120 support was fixed with Linux 5.5 release.
- new_realist 7y agoNo, that was 8K over HDMI. 8K over two DisplayPort cables, as the only 8K monitor currently available (the UP3218K) requires, is still broken.