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Re:China: Nvidia Loses Face and a 10 Million PC Order over ... by mchatfie on Friday June 22, 2012 @10:48AM (#4146947)
IMHO it's a good move by NVIDIA.

The main differentiating factor between NVIDIA and AMD are the drivers. Release the driver source on any platform and NVIDIA loose their competitive edge.

They are leaps and bounds better when it comes to OpenGL support. I can't comment from a DirectX perspective, but they always seem to be pushing the boundaries where AMD play catch up.

This would be worth hundreds of millions so a 10 million order has to be taken in perspective.

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Re:China: Nvidia Loses Face and a 10 Million PC Order over ... by rbanffy on Friday June 22, 2012 @11:39AM (#4147222)
Yet, their proprietary drivers are a problem for many clients. If I spend US$ 1000 troubleshooting a multi-GPU number crusher that's money I could have spent in better hardware with drivers that just worked.
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Re:China: Nvidia Loses Face and a 10 Million PC Order over ... by ginko on Friday June 22, 2012 @03:38PM (#4148369)
This makes is even more mind boggling that AMD isn't opensourcing their own driver.

I'm sure a lot of the current driver problems could be fixed quite fast.

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