Very cool that the Vega 56 MSRP is coming down.
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GeForce GTX 1660 Ti Launch Today - Supported By The NVIDIA Linux Driver, No Nouveau Yet
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Originally posted by starshipeleven View PostFUCKING AMEN BROTHER
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Originally posted by zoomblab View Postby doing so I believe you don't loose a competitive advantage (or do you?)
If the competition they fear is Geforce cards suddenly not being crippled anymore by drivers so that they have Quadro-like floating point performance (up to qhat the hardware can actually deliver), then yeah I think they would lose a competitive advantage and a ton of cash.
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Originally posted by tildearrow View Post
AMD cards are very flexible when it comes to this regard. The factory voltages/clocks are just wrong/too high and often require tuning.
Also in GPU computing, the cards consume less energy that Nvidia counterparts, but they need to be undervolted for that..
Originally posted by tildearrow View PostFurthermore, did you consider idle power draw?
A passive cooled Polaris card should have low idle power draw, I think..but I have none, since to have a RX 550 I would buy a APU instead
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Originally posted by zoomblab View PostI agree. Nvidia, it would be nice to release the firmwares. Personally I don't care about nouveau, I will always use official drivers, but by doing so I believe you don't loose a competitive advantage (or do you?), make more friends and increase your karma levels.
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Originally posted by aht0 View PostI found ONE good use for Nouveau. That driver is easier to get work on Optimus hardware than hacking inside the official drivers..
In my work laptop I disabled Noveau in kernel as it just failed to load on my hardware and removed+locked the 3D part in Mesa as it was annoying me with warnings about low performance and potential instability every time it was updated.
The NVIDIA "driver" I load is bbswitch, that just disables and shuts down the secondary NVIDIA graphics of the laptop https://github.com/Bumblebee-Project/bbswitch
And this is done because I don't want to go in UEFI and switch on/off the dedicated NVIDIA each time I have to reboot into Windows.
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