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▲ wewewedxfgdf 3 hours ago

If only AMD did this.

▲bigyabai an hour ago | parent | next [-]

AMD supports Mesa precisely so that enthusiasts can do this.

Nvidia doesn't, and their Vulkan stack underperforms on Linux quite significantly.

▲Waterluvian 3 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Is there financial incentive for them to bother?

▲emilsedgh 2 minutes ago | parent | next [-]

One thing they should've learned from Nvidia is that it's really worth it for them to invest making their devices function as broadly as possible. Crypto and AI waves both benefited Nvidia much more than AMD partly due to their devices being more universally usable.

That "partly" was worth hundreds of billions of dollars but AMD were cheap/shortsighted enough to hire a few dedicated engineers.

▲wewewedxfgdf 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Perhaps not but one of the great things about Nvidia is their latest drivers often support very old cards.

▲returnorthrow 11 minutes ago | parent | next [-]

Perhaps René, the maintainer of T/2 Linux, will end up vibe coding an NVIDIA driver one of these days. He’s been reverse engineering and vibe coding a bunch of drivers for old graphics lately and live streaming everything.

▲benoau an hour ago | parent | prev | next [-]

They're in the process of ending support for everything below the RTX 2000 series -

https://windowsforum.com/news/nvidia-ends-feature-support-fo...

▲Waterluvian 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Maybe there’s a prestige angle to somewhat shame them into keeping up with nvidia. Though my sense is that they’re barely peers anymore in this space. :(