Valve Working On Explicit Sync Support For "NVK" NVIDIA Vulkan Driver

[shmerl]

H100.

What does H100 have to do with it? It's not an embedded / mobile SoC that's needed for handhelds.

[mSparks]

What does H100 have to do with it? It's not an embedded / mobile SoC that's needed for handhelds.

If you had actually listened to the video you would surely know.
Since you are clearly only interested is pushing whatever BS agenda was crammed down your throat by spambots this week there is nothing I have to offer you.
GLHF.

Remember this conversation when the news drops.

[shmerl]

If you had actually listened to the video you would surely know.

Well, once you'll demonstrate and APU that can compete, you can come back instead of bringing some koolaid and stuff like H100.

[mSparks]

Well, once you'll demonstrate and APU that can compete, you can come back instead of bringing some koolaid and stuff like H100.

H100 is an "APU", $250,000 a pops worth.
and still cheaper than the cabling AMD would need to create something similar.

Coming to an ultra low cost mobile device near you within 10 years. (another 1,000,000 times cheaper to run)

The only reason you have any confidence AMD can compete with that is you didn't watch the video.

[Rovano]

Oh, I don't remember.

I'm just thinking it seems like the open source R515 and whatever new updates have come to it have been far and few inbetween, and Nvidia has been more than happy to let Valve, Collabora and whomever else do all of the heavy open source lifting resulting in NVK. NVK seems to be always getting new stuff.

Did NVK start out as a fork of R515?

https://www.phoronix.com/review/nvidia-r515-open

If I install the Nvidia driver from the binary, I have a choice between a closed module and an open module(tested on series 545, 550).

[Gusar]

So you dont believe the switches price, dev environment, performance, and quality factors played any role in its success.
gotcha.

Hell no. The Switch is successful cos of Nintendo's IP - Mario, Zelda, Pokemon - and a whole bunch of simpler looking platformers/metroidvanias/pixel-look RPGs, aka games people like to play on the go.

There's the occasional big game like Witcher 3, Nier Automata or Crisis Core, but big sacrifices needed to be made to get them running on the Switch in terms of texture quality, resolution or overall art style (Witcher replaces the realistic environment on other platforms with a paintery/fairytale-y look on the Switch)

Is gonna have to explain away why pokemon was an nvidia tegra exclusive, and what they think out competed that.

Pokemon sells because it's Pokemon, not because it runs on a Tegra. In fact Scarlet/Violet were criticized a lot for their crappy look and poor performance. They're awesome gameplay-wise though, I've spent 92 hours in Violet.

Really, performance is the least responsible for the Switch's succes, no one cares that it runs a Tegra. Others are entirely correct when they say the Switch was considered weak when it was new and is now considered super weak. Basically, the Switch is succesfull *despite* its hardware, not because of it.

H100 is an "APU", $250,000 a pops worth.

H100 is enterprise-grade AI hardware. Bringing it up in a discussion about handhelds is... basically nuts. It's two completely different worlds.

[mSparks]

Hell no. The Switch is successful cos of Nintendo's IP - Mario, Zelda, Pokemon - and a whole bunch of simpler looking platformers/metroidvanias/pixel-look RPGs, aka games people like to play on the go.

close.
But e.g.
Pokemon IP could have gone to any platform they wanted.
They wanted nvidia.

See also

https://m.youtube.com/watch?si=HXAhfwbZO7y9nhcA&v=73oq63KoN2s&feature=youtu.be

[mSparks]

H100 is enterprise-grade AI hardware. Bringing it up in a discussion about handhelds is... basically nuts. It's two completely different worlds.

Another one who has an opinion about a video they didn't watch. I see a trend......

[Gusar]

Pokemon IP could have gone to any platform they wanted.
They wanted nvidia..

Pokemkon has been Nintendo's pretty much since it exists - the first game was released in '96, The Pokemom Company (consisting of Game Freak, Nintendo and Creatures) was established in '98. It has nothing whatsoever to do with Nvidia. It's home is on Nintendo regardless of what hardware a given Nintendo console is using.

Another one who has an opinion about a video they didn't watch. I see a trend......

You're mixing elephants and carburetors in a weird attempt to elevate Nvidia to more than they are, that's the "trend" here.

[mSparks]

Pokemkon has been Nintendo's pretty much since it exists -

And the key difference between Sonic the hedgehog and pokemon is one decided to run on AMD and the other nvidia.

One people remember fondly
The other is, afaik, the best selling game series of all time.