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They have working Linux drivers. I tried setting up Tensorflow with an AMD card once. I send a thousand dollars to Nvidia after a week
by FredPret 3y ago
They have working Linux drivers. I tried setting up Tensorflow with an AMD card once. I send a thousand dollars to Nvidia after a week
- ChatGTP 3y agoThey might have them, but they're closed source and when there are issues, you're completely fucked.
- eropple 3y agoAs opposed to the everyday case with AMD, where you have adventures all the time?
- FredPret 3y agoThey both need to get this 1000% better stat. I think it's probably the best ROI the CEO of AMD can get - put a team of engineers on Linux drivers full time, increase your AI market share... and triple your market cap.
- unmole 3y agoI've had no problems with Nvidia Linux drivers themselves in the last 15 years or so. Yes, they don't play well with the rest of the ecosystem. Using Optimus laptops was a nightmare but you could still get hardware acceleration if you needed it, with performance on par with Windows. ATI on the other hand is a choose your own adventure kind of a deal.
- ChatGTP 3y agoWe’ll I did have problems, so there ?
- wisty 3y agoIf the GCC compiler has an issue, I'm in a lot of trouble too, even though it's open source. I guess I could scan the code and figure out any minor problems (or figure out why I was misusing it) but I'm not an expert in compilers, or even at tensor programming. Obviously it would be better if they're open source, since someone would be able to fix them, and it helps to know how your tools really work. But a better closed source driver is probably the right tool for most problems.
- ecshafer 3y agoI love open source, but this is just isn't true. If you are a company, and you find an actual problem with Nvidia, and you just spent some multiple of $100k or more on graphics cards for a cluster. You are able to get an ear and get that driver fixed.
- shmerl 3y agoWorking is moot. Their Linux support is the worst among all GPU makers.
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- babypuncher 3y agoFor this particular use case, Nvidia works better on Linux than AMD
- shmerl 3y agoAs soon as you are out of what they care about, your support will become abysmal. And they don't care about modern desktop use case (such as they didn't have Wayland support for decades). So if you are a Linux user - simply avoid Nvidia. They don't care about you.
- mkl 3y ago> Wayland support for decades It's only 15 years old!
- shmerl 3y agoAnd Nvidia did nothing to support until like a just a few years ago and even now their support is basically half cooked. If it takes them that long, it's very clear they don't care about Linux in general. Same thing is reflected in them not working with upstream kernel.
- jcranmer 3y agoNvidia's Linux compute solution is far better than AMD's compute solution, and their Linux graphics solution is far worse than AMD (and Intel)'s graphics solution. So the recommendation comes down to why you want that GPU.
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- thescriptkiddie 3y agoNvidia is famous for having the worst Linux drivers. Linus himself told Nvida to go fuck themselves on stage.
- mardifoufs 3y agoCUDA on Linux just works. And works very well. If anything most CUDA workloads run on Linux machines, and it's completely pain free compared to setting up ROCm even on Linux.
- mike_hearn 3y agoNo, they are "famous" for having the best drivers but not open sourcing them. NVIDIA's drivers are practically the same size as an OS anyway. Arguably they are an OS, for the GPU instead of the CPU. So it's not a huge surprise they don't give it all away for free, especially as software is a competitive advantage for them.
- josefx 3y agoFrom what I understand that was about them not cooperating with the kernel devs. and that their driver was a black box that had to interact with half the kernel didn't help. Driver wise my worst experiences where all solidly in the ATI/AMD binary camp, with the constant need to exorcise nouveau from various systems second.