Nvidia GPUs

“Nvidia's ambitions for remote disabling and charging rent to use keep using GPUs are more unsettling to me”

“They are the only company I've seen that saw the early vision and carried it through with focus through today.”

“I wallet-vote for those over Nvidia who require proprietary code in user space where it requires rights within my operating system.”

“An Nvidia GPU involves as much CUDA lock-in as Nvidia can manage, but it's also where the best performance is.”

“The prefill rates are way faster on these cards compared to apple silicon”

“Nvidia sets their own margins, exploiting American investors and taxpayers”

“nVidia has provided feature parity for their GPUs between Windows and Linux for longer than even fglrx was a thing.”

“Anecdotally, folks I know who have tried using TPUs and AMD chips have hit more issues with the underlying drivers than with NVIDIA chips.”

“NVidia controlling the price, features and, most importantly, who gets to buy them is bad for Google.”

“Easily 10x–20x higher token rate per GPU with public solutions like dynamo and sglang.”

“Nvidia's Wayland experience has been very usable with post-550-Series drivers”

“The niche for HPC will exist, and Nvidia continues to serve the niche while others turn up their nose.”

“I've never had a single problem with my Nvidia GPUs on Linux.”

“good integration between various open source software and proprietary CUDA drivers”

“Nvidia won because they embraced standards, in a time when alternatives like OpenCL were outright sabotaged by AMD, Intel and Apple.”

“gaming on Linux since 2020 on an Nvidia GPU with no problems”

“I run NVIDIA on my Bazzite box and I get excellent performance.”

“Nvidia makes a fine GPU. The problem with Nvidia on linux is the drivers.”

“requires users to jump through a couple of hoops due to their attempts to protect their IP”

“using a Nvidia GPU for years now (on Cachyos and Pop OS) without issues”

“NVIDIA GPUs were infamous for doing this with nouveau on less ideally supported cards”

“I use KDE + Nvidia, and last I looked into it, it only worked if you had one monitor enabled.”

“in terms of cost per dollar/per watt of inference Nvidia's GPUs are pretty up there”

“A modern GPUs is an amazing feat of engineering, particularly about making computation more efficient”

“the scientific stack works beautifully with nvidia GPUs”

“their dev ecosystem is still so far ahead of anyone else”

“which in turn requires gigabytes of closed-source runtime”

“NVidia's bubble is about vastly overcharging for a thing that only they can provide.”

“This is on NVIDIA ensuring their hardware doesn't last to long and forcing you to throw it away eventually.”

“the only problems I've had with NVidia on Linux were when they dropped support for old GPUs”

“as Nvidia does with forbidding datacenter use of some of its GPUs, charging extra for it”

“I have been using Nvidia on Linux for years and am able to run 95%+ of my library on Steam.”

“obsoleted $800 video cards with 'twice as powerful, twice as efficient'on a yearly basis”

“Nvidia architectures keep changing and getting more advanced as well, with specialized tensor operations, different accumulators and caches”

“Nvidia still leads in power-efficiency when compared node-for-node.”

“in terms of power efficiency to performance ratio Nvidia is way ahead”

“their Linux support is anemic and now they're gorged up to the gills with stupid AI money”

“Switching from an Nvidia card to an AMD one I am now able to upgrade my kernel whenever without getting a blinking cursor after reboot.”

“everything seems to work out of the box, including debugging/introspection tools and everything else I've tried”

“Nvidia cooperates with Khronos, implements open-source and proprietary APIs simultaneously, documents their GPU hardware”