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> Nvidia has done very well financially out of preventing use of consumer graphics cards being used in datacenters through licensing restrictions. An open sourc
by shmerl 6y ago
> Nvidia has done very well financially out of preventing use of consumer graphics cards being used in datacenters through licensing restrictions. An open source driver eats into that.
Yep, that's my guess exactly why they are such jerks and hinder Nouveau reclocking.
> And remember, Google/Amazon don't even need a complete working opensource driver
Google or Amazon don't need Nvidia. Google already went with AMD for Stadia, and they actually mentioned open driver as one of the major reasons.
- izacus 6y ago> Google or Amazon don't need Nvidia. Google already went with AMD for Stadia, and they actually mentioned open driver as one of the major reasons. This is complete nonsense - Stadia is a gaming platform, what does it have to do with compute power provided by nVidia's CUDA? Those are completely different, non-interchangeable, usecases provided by completely different products.
- shmerl 6y agoGoogle and Amazon have more than enough resources to avoid CUDA altogether if they wanted to. Basically, they don't need Nvidia just because of their lock-in shenanigans and if open driver is something beneficial for them.