Comment on How did it come to be that only two companies supply all of the world's PC graphics chips?
Buffalox@lemmy.world 3 weeks agoI think 90+% marketshare is technically considered a monopoly in many places.
But the existence of AMD still makes a huge difference IMO, you do have an alternative option, and Nvidia doesn’t control the market completely.
Also personally I use AMD because I’m on Linux, and I don’t want the proprietary Nvidia driver to fuck up my system.
So AFAIK on Linux, the majority actually run AMD.
I run Linux on my PC with a 3090 and my server has a 1070Ti.
The proprietary driver works ok. I can’t imagine having an AMD GPU and not being able to play games or do ML or have NVENC for transcoding/video editing, AMD is just not a serious company in the GPU space. Proper competition is sorely needed. Such a shame too, because I’m quite glad to never have to buy an Intel CPU ever again and deal with their ass backwards ecosystem
Not being able to play games? Not serious? What the hell are you talking about? Did you compare a 3090 to a bottom tier ATI Radeon card or something? My RX 6800 was a fucking champ that was able to run everything I threw at it without a single problem and with quite satisfactory performance at 1440p. It was most definitely a very competent GPU for gaming.
ML and nvenc are extra features that not everyone needs or even wants.
Maybe I’m misinformed, but can the RX 6800 do Path Tracing in CP2077 at 1440p/~30fps or at least on DLSS Quality?
A RX 6800? Yes, in fact I was playing CP2077 with FSR and ray tracing on at 4K on a 6800. It was the first real card AMD had that could. Though it did struggle at times.
Sadly replaced after 4 years with a RX9060 of similar capability but better Ray tracing.
AMD cards are only about 2-3 years behind NVIDIA in a lot of specialised tasks, but trying to pace the behemoth that is NVIDIA’s RnD with a much smaller budget. ROCm works but is held up by compatibility issues with the newer CUDA features.
lol “not being able to run games” have you heard of a little thing called the steam deck?
Or indeed the PS5 which runs AMD chips.
And runs the few games it does have pretty poorly, all things considered.
I have a steam deck. It’s a portable, it’s really cool for what it is but as a main gaming system it can’t exactly compete visually with Path Tracing in CP2077 for instance, which I’d say is borderline required to enjoy the game’s visuals.
they point was about “not being able to game on amd”
yeah duh mobile chips are less performant, but still forza horizon 4–5 runs better on my steam deck than on my desktop pc with a 2080rtx in linux
Sorry, I needed to vote negatively your comment due to the false information. Nothing personal, just keeping the house clean
What false information?
AMD gpus are inside in Xbox and ps5, without taking into account the handhelds like steam deck.
For the ML is usually better to use amd cards because they use to have more vram, and many many models can be trained using amd.
And about the transcoding comment I will bother myself ait it.
In summary, tells me you don’t have any clue without telling me you don’t have any clue
SnotFlickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 weeks ago
All-AMD Linux desktop build here plus all-AMD Linux laptop.
Shit just works.
psoul@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Sh 🤫 IT just works
massacre@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Which laptop? All AMS here as well. ROG was what I found but there’s a very l in muted set of laptops with AMD GPUs, so I’m curious
SnotFlickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 weeks ago
Lenovo Thinkbook 15 G3 ACL
derpgon@programming.dev 3 weeks ago
Rocking my second Thinkpad with full Linux, it has been a very pleasant experience both times. Sadly, had to switch a year back to from E15 to T16 because the keyboard started failing and it wasn’t servicable from my side. Still works with external one though.