Nvidia Unveils GeForce RTX 30 Series GPUs

Re:Nvidia Unveils GeForce RTX 30 Series GPUs by nl on Tuesday September 01, 2020 @11:47PM (#24349805)

> Giving away that secret sauce in their drivers, so that AMD could make their cards seamlessly compatible would probably be a huge mistake from a business perspective for Nvidia.

I've seen this argument a lot but never from the ML perspective - and I don't think it makes sense with ML.

Nivida's advantage is ML is CUDA and cuDNN, and the huge set of tools built on them. These aren't the driver, but a layer above it.

I don't really understand the "secret sauce" argument for the drivers at all, but I assumed it applied to gaming somehow. I can't think of how it applies to ML though.

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Re:Nvidia Unveils GeForce RTX 30 Series GPUs by pjmlp on Wednesday September 02, 2020 @01:35AM (#24350275)

PTX is on the driver level, and it took NVidia several years effort to make their cards properly map into C++ memory module.

Intel and AMD despite their FOSS support, actually only do open what they feel like.

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