• gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.works
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    13 hours ago

    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.