Intel announces Arc B-series "Battlemage" discrete graphics with Linux support

Re:Intel announces Arc B-series "Battlemage" discrete graphi... by bayindirh on Tuesday December 03, 2024 @04:17PM (#42311560)

When this walled garden is the only way to use GPUs with high efficiency and everybody is using this stack, and NVIDIA controlling the supply of these "platform boards" to OEMs, they don't make money, but they literally print it.

However, AMD is coming for them because a couple of high profile supercomputer centers (LUMI, Livermore, etc.) are using Instinct cards and pouring money to AMD to improve their cards and stack.

I have not used their (Instinct) cards, yet, but their Linux driver architecture is way better than NVIDIA.

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Re:Intel announces Arc B-series "Battlemage" discrete graphi... by ryao on Wednesday December 04, 2024 @04:40AM (#42315936)

I think he was asking how HPC makes money. The answer as far as I know is that it often does not for anyone other than the vendors.

I wonder where you got your information on AMD’s “Linux driver architecture”. It is reportedly a mess:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34832660

So far, I have been very happy with Nvidia’s Linux drivers.

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