Originally posted by yoshi314
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2) AMD has always been ahead of Nvidia in technology. Nvidia has been the one mostly playing catch up this decade (up until RTX 2000 they didn't even have async compute, AMD had it since 2012...). RTX is not "new gpu tech", it is just a new driver feature that exploits gpu shaders in a new way. AMD didn't use it because it didn't make sense to demand a 1000$ gpu in order to provide tiny raytraced effects at 1080p30fps. AMD's upcoming way will be much more powerful and effective, that is why a typical 5700xt-level of console hardware will be able to pull off raytracing better than a 2080ti....
3) What Nvidia does have, is a stranglehold on pc game developers to "optimize" (read, make AMD perform worser than Nvidia) for their hardware and on PC tech review sites.....
4) Yes, i am aware that Linux is not solely about desktops and gaming. It seems you are not aware that ML is a very tiny niche though. Yes it gets a lot of press exposure but really, it is not that mainstream. So yeah, it is safe for me to assume in a MESA thread that people are talking about the desktop and gaming. It is also safe to assume that professionals aren't talking about the 3080ti, because that will be a gaming gpu, and true professionals don't use gaming hardware for serious ML work.
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