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Yeah exactly. AMD has other markets to compete in. Their desktop, laptop, and handheld offerings are incredible right now. I assume they are also going to repla

by namlem 3y ago

Yeah exactly. AMD has other markets to compete in. Their desktop, laptop, and handheld offerings are incredible right now. I assume they are also going to replace Nvidia for the Switch 2.

philistine 3y ago
Nope. Nintendo is sticking with Nvidia. I'll eat my hat if they don't.
- whaleofatw2022 3y ago
  It would be just a little surprising, since so far they have a pretty bad track record with 3rd parties.
  - paulmd 3y ago
    Says who, Charlie demerjian and circa-2010 AMD fanboys echoing him? Things like Bumpgate as a major social media mindshare thing largely stem from him and his coverage. And he leaves off the part where AMD gpus were failing too (because of the same RoHS-compliant solder) and where apple kinda wanted to part ways anyway because they saw the “platform” nvidia was building and didn’t want any part of it on macOS… game knows game. https://blog.greggant.com/posts/2021/10/13/apple-vs-nvidia-what-happened.html https://blog.greggant.com/posts/2021/10/13/apple-vs-nvidia-w... That’s the problem is like the evga thing there is a distinctly contemporary take and that’s shaped by people like Charlie, and then there’s the take with the benefit of a couple years of hindsight and maybe it wasn’t exactly the way the bunnyman said it was. Maybe apple didn’t want CUDA usurping them, and maybe apple wanted to leave the way clear for the pivot to apple silicon and metal and the platform Apple wanted to build there. The problem is the AMD fanboys are just as noxious today and - just like the evga thing - it’s gonna take years before people are willing to re-evaluate things fairly. https://www.reddit.com/r/nvidia/comments/xgn7do/we_need_more_context_on_evga_and_its_ceo/ https://www.reddit.com/r/nvidia/comments/xgn7do/we_need_more... https://youtu.be/vyQxNN9EF3w?t=5044 https://youtu.be/vyQxNN9EF3w?t=5044 There’s a little backstory like this behind almost all of the AMD fanboy “lore” around nvidia. Crysis 2 was never a thing either - the whole point of wireframe mode is seeing the full geometry at maximum LOD, with no culling, for example, and it does not happen during actual gameplay. nvidia never “sold directly to miners”, tech media didn't actually read the RBS article they were citing and it doesn't say what they say it says. NVIDIA "recently said they're completely an AI company now" stories a few months ago was a quote from 2015. Etc. There's just a group of people who just get off on hating and they don't mind making shit up if that's what it takes. It's essentially impossible to unwind the popular opinion of NVIDIA from this ridiculous amount of past-hate... yeah, after 30 years of blood libel from ATI fanatics they probably do have an overall negative public opinion! People know the stories are true, because NVIDIA is bad, because there's all these stories, so they must be true.

by namlem 3y ago

Yeah exactly. AMD has other markets to compete in. Their desktop, laptop, and handheld offerings are incredible right now. I assume they are also going to replace Nvidia for the Switch 2.

philistine 3y ago

Nope. Nintendo is sticking with Nvidia. I'll eat my hat if they don't.

whaleofatw2022 3y ago
It would be just a little surprising, since so far they have a pretty bad track record with 3rd parties.
- paulmd 3y ago
  Says who, Charlie demerjian and circa-2010 AMD fanboys echoing him? Things like Bumpgate as a major social media mindshare thing largely stem from him and his coverage. And he leaves off the part where AMD gpus were failing too (because of the same RoHS-compliant solder) and where apple kinda wanted to part ways anyway because they saw the “platform” nvidia was building and didn’t want any part of it on macOS… game knows game. https://blog.greggant.com/posts/2021/10/13/apple-vs-nvidia-what-happened.html https://blog.greggant.com/posts/2021/10/13/apple-vs-nvidia-w... That’s the problem is like the evga thing there is a distinctly contemporary take and that’s shaped by people like Charlie, and then there’s the take with the benefit of a couple years of hindsight and maybe it wasn’t exactly the way the bunnyman said it was. Maybe apple didn’t want CUDA usurping them, and maybe apple wanted to leave the way clear for the pivot to apple silicon and metal and the platform Apple wanted to build there. The problem is the AMD fanboys are just as noxious today and - just like the evga thing - it’s gonna take years before people are willing to re-evaluate things fairly. https://www.reddit.com/r/nvidia/comments/xgn7do/we_need_more_context_on_evga_and_its_ceo/ https://www.reddit.com/r/nvidia/comments/xgn7do/we_need_more... https://youtu.be/vyQxNN9EF3w?t=5044 https://youtu.be/vyQxNN9EF3w?t=5044 There’s a little backstory like this behind almost all of the AMD fanboy “lore” around nvidia. Crysis 2 was never a thing either - the whole point of wireframe mode is seeing the full geometry at maximum LOD, with no culling, for example, and it does not happen during actual gameplay. nvidia never “sold directly to miners”, tech media didn't actually read the RBS article they were citing and it doesn't say what they say it says. NVIDIA "recently said they're completely an AI company now" stories a few months ago was a quote from 2015. Etc. There's just a group of people who just get off on hating and they don't mind making shit up if that's what it takes. It's essentially impossible to unwind the popular opinion of NVIDIA from this ridiculous amount of past-hate... yeah, after 30 years of blood libel from ATI fanatics they probably do have an overall negative public opinion! People know the stories are true, because NVIDIA is bad, because there's all these stories, so they must be true.