The reality is that years ago Nvidia made a very significant gamble, they started making a huge investment into developing GPU Compute technology. They were told they were crazy... who would want to use a GPU to compute things when you had CPUs... and the GPU could never run an OS so what good was it anyway for computing?
Now they own the GPU computer ecosystem. AMD is making several half hearted attempts to counter Nvidia's hold on the high ground, but AMD cant even come out with a coherent platform (ex. OpenCL, Rocm, etc.)!
Team green made a long bomb pass, and they caught it for the touch down now. While I would love for them to open source their driver, its to tightly integrated into what makes them huge sums of money now. They took the risk, they are going to take the reward, and by all rights of reason they should.
AMD really should make an actual investment in GPU compute rather than these half baked plugs to say they are, but they never work.
I would love Nvidia to open up... but I would also love Microsoft to do the same with Windows! Neither is going to happen for a long long time.
I find it ironic though that everyone wines about Nvidia on Linux and demand that they open source... if Nvidia didnt have the best performance all this wining wouldn't happen I dont think :P
Now they own the GPU computer ecosystem. AMD is making several half hearted attempts to counter Nvidia's hold on the high ground, but AMD cant even come out with a coherent platform (ex. OpenCL, Rocm, etc.)!
Team green made a long bomb pass, and they caught it for the touch down now. While I would love for them to open source their driver, its to tightly integrated into what makes them huge sums of money now. They took the risk, they are going to take the reward, and by all rights of reason they should.
AMD really should make an actual investment in GPU compute rather than these half baked plugs to say they are, but they never work.
I would love Nvidia to open up... but I would also love Microsoft to do the same with Windows! Neither is going to happen for a long long time.
I find it ironic though that everyone wines about Nvidia on Linux and demand that they open source... if Nvidia didnt have the best performance all this wining wouldn't happen I dont think :P
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