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Re:Why Nvidia Keeps Winning: The Rise of an AI Giant by Dalewyn on Thursday July 06, 2023 @10:51PM (#36626480)
Intel from what I can tell has better hardware than AMD, but they have even worse software than AMD.

It's really just Nvidia firmly winning the entire market the good old fashioned way. Those who can compete still can't hold a candle, and the market at large is content to keep buying Nvidia because their stuff is simply That Fucking Good(tm).

It's Nvidia's market to lose, and they clearly aren't losing any time soon.

Re:Why Nvidia Keeps Winning: The Rise of an AI Giant by ThatPlayer on Thursday July 06, 2023 @11:30PM (#36626741)
I'd say AMD still has worse software than Nvidia too, even before GPGPU/CUDA. About a year ago, I swapped a 1080TI with a friend's 5700XT because he was having crashing issues with games. I use it fine now with Linux drivers, so I doubt it was a hardware issue.
Re:Why Nvidia Keeps Winning: The Rise of an AI Giant by paulmd on Friday July 07, 2023 @05:02PM (#36638257)
AMD drivers exist in this weird state of tautological pseudo-goodness where they're good as long as you ignore all the times they aren't. And if you point it out, people dig in with the "well I've never had a problem in 15 years now" and "go look at NVIDIA's tech support forum, they have bugs too".

NVIDIA has not had a problem like 5700XT or Vega drivers in the modern era, and they haven't even had a more short-term shitstorm like RDNA3 launch drivers that lingered for nearly as long. And there have been multiple instances of top-5 e-sports titles being flatly broken on AMD drivers (often resolveable by going back to much older drivers) for prolonged periods of time (quarters/years) that simply don't happen on NVIDIA cards.

But of course there is a low-level stew of problems on both brands constantly. Power-saving with multimonitor is a great example of one that's been perma-broken for 10 years on both brands now. But there is also a high-level stew of Radeon-specific problems that pretty constantly churns and it gets discarded out of hand because "I've never had a problem" like that means 5700XT didn't exist.

even working from a baseline assumption of intellectual honesty it's a super frustrating discourse overall, and I think in many cases the assumption may be unwarranted.