I am loyal to no company. They simply made the more fitting product for me: better Linux drivers and more VRAM.
I always heavily roll my eyes when people on Reddit, or whatever, are like “I [finally] joined team Red”. Like bro, the trillion dollar company isn’t a damn team, they don’t give a fuck about you.
I’m about to build a new computer. So is Intel the new budget brand? My wallet dictates my loyalty.
I wanted to get a thread ripper like my cat. Tech companies, all of them suck ass; tech in general. It just stopped being fun at a certain point and became a nuisance.
LOL, loyalty.
The reasons I got an AMD GPU for my gaming machine:
- much better support for Linux gaming
That’s it. That’s the list.
Neither Nvidia nor AMD (nor also-ran Intel) have come out with meaningfully novel hardware approaches in a long fucking time. It’s all horizontal scaling on the die (plus “let’s add more memory”) combined with incremental efficiency improvements in die layouts and chip lithography process / feature size.
This is why monopolies are bad. They have a vested interest in acquiring and/or killing any company - indeed, any innovation - that has even a slight potential to disrupt their market dominance.
I really like my 7800xt and 5800x3D, they’re good enough for what I need. I do not like AMD as a business, or frankly, any of the alternatives.
If/When my parts die, I really don’t know what I’ll do. Even if I didn’t hate what these companies stand for, I couldn’t afford the insanely inflated prices of their products right now. I might just be priced out of the hobby.
Go intel. Seriously, their mid range CPUs are becoming solid budget alternative.
If/When that time comes, buy used if possible, avoid putting more money in their wallets
I expressed this earlier, but graphics was the original priority of AMD/Nvidia.
Not just gaming.
Workstation work and other niches made up a serious sale of shares. And AMD/Nvidia have always invested a ton exploring those niches.
Hence I mean to imply:
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…Don’t make gaming so self-important, at least not more than it was.
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But also, these corporations were not “loyal to gamers” even before the AI bubble. They had fingers in the pies, and the press documented their many exploits against gamers.
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Nice. Impressive. Let’s see Lisa Su’s affairs.
Okay it’s been a while since I was in the hardware game but are not Radeons made by ATI and not AMD?
AMD bought ATI in 2006
ATI got bought out by AMD a long time ago.
Quite a while…
Yeah, old as dirt. Last time I built my own PC it was with a GeForce 4 GPU and Intel Pentium 4. The 1 GHz barrier was just broken.
I remember the good ol’ days… Before AMD owned the Radeon name. I don’t think that’s helping them much.
Linux drivers for ATI were absolute trash prior to the AMD purchase. At that time Nvidia had substantially better support on Linux, ATI cards were basically useless.
Shortly after the AMD purchase the ATI drivers finally became useful.
I mean isn’t that because the community did all the work though? Lol.
This fact alone is why AMD gets my money.
modprobe fglrx #pleaseIndeed. AMD GPUs work well on Linux, compared to the mess Linux drivers are, functional but with lots of issues and also loss in performance.
I mean what’s option B?
Seize the means of production?
Capitalism fans when exchange value is prioritised:
With the way the circular financing is going to unravel, we’re either going to have to fight their creditors for it, or pick up an old fab for the price of a used Toyota.
Intel integrated graphics
There are the Intel ARC cards, but they’re aimed at datacenters too.
not all of them
These days it seems to be their focus. I think originally they were more workstation focused with all the codecs they supported. Now their newest cards like the B70 with 32GB vram has a clear specific audience.
i had a 9070 xt, it was ass
