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[–] [email protected] 111 points 1 month ago (17 children)

As a reminder, the same (closed-source) user-space components for OpenGL / OpenCL / Vulkan / CUDA are used regardless of the NVIDIA kernel driver option with their official driver stack.

CUDA hell remains. :(

[–] [email protected] 54 points 1 month ago (3 children)

AMD needs to get their ducks in a row. They already have the advantage of not being Nvidia

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

They already have the advantage of not being Nvidia

That's just because they release worse products.

If AMD had Nvidia's marketshare, they would be just as scummy as the business climate allows.

In fact, AMD piggybacks off of Nvidia's scumbaggery to charge more for their GPUs rather than engage in an actual price war.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Who would've thunk that big, for profit, tech companies don't care about us :T

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

It's all by design.

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