Yeah, if you even need dedicated GPUs at all, as usually it's Gamers who are looking for those and they're usually on Windows systems anyways (really looking forward to installing Windows 7 on the laptop I mentioned if I do get it this year - kinda mean that both ironic and not-ironic...).

The built-in Radeon Vega 8 or 10 solutions on all mobile Ryzens are usually better and more efficient than current Intel counterparts, so if you don't need a dGPU, then that's one more reason to root for Team Green.

EDIT: In case anyone reading isn't aware, nVidia is a biaaatch when it comes to drivers for Linux. Anyone looking for powerful GPUs in Linux machines, no matter desktop or laptop, has an easier life with AMD solutions. That's the reason there's an infamous photo of Linus showing the finger to nVidia: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IVpOyKCNZYw

Is there a decent thin-and-light AMD laptop? Looking to buy the successor to my Dell XPS 13 and would strongly prefer AMD if I can find something ultrabook-like with a QHD or above resolution screen

Nvidia works for me. Works for amazon (https://docs.aws.amazon.com/dlami/latest/devguide/gpu.html) and others as well.

Yeah, but you're referring to "super-computing" situations, where the OS of choice is Linux and nVidia would be shooting themselves in the foot if they only developed drivers for Windows.

When it comes to normal consumer hardware, it seems that nVidia drivers for Linux in 2019 are still a hit and miss:

https://www.reddit.com/r/linux_gaming/comments/bhfjnb/nvidia...

https://www.reddit.com/r/linux_gaming/comments/bol5uo/nvidia...

EDIT: Maybe my formulation of "powerful GPUs" led you on to that. Though I did say "no matter desktop or laptop" to clarify that...

> Maybe my formulation of "powerful GPUs" led you on to that.

No, "nvidia is a biaaatch" led me. I just stated that my experience is different. How about you share your actual experience?

I might be biased as I used GPUs for scientific computations and Nvidia reached level where it "just" works on Linux many years ago.

Also: * Steam and few games I have on my laptop (ubuntu) with nvidia mobile graphics work fine.

* My home workstation (gentoo) and workstation at work (ubuntu) also work fine.

AMD "just works" even without installing the binary blob from the vendor.

as a matter of fact, there is no need to install said binary as its most likely already upstreamed to your distribution of choice.

but nvidia still reigns supreme if we're talking actual performance ... at least after you've installed said binary blob ;)

and i can say from personal experience that the nvidia 10x0 drivers were terrible in the first ~6 month after their release. fan kept jumping between 10-80% for example. Haven't had any issues in at least a year though, but i'd expect the same kind of issues on any new chipset by nvidia, as they havent open sourced their drivers