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by orangebeet 1547 days ago
This would be cool if they had decent drivers for Linux.
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They do have good drivers for Linux for the things this chips is intended to be used for (research, ML).
If you haven't had any issues with NVIDIA Linux drivers, you can count yourself extremely lucky. In the past, I had a 50/50 chance of boot failure after installing CUDA drivers over 12 different systems. Mainline Ubuntu drivers are somewhat stable, but installing a specific CUDA version from the official NVIDIA repos rarely works on the first try. Switching from Tensorflow to PyTorch has helped a lot though, as Tensorflow was much more picky about the installed CUDA version.

Obligatory Linus Torvals on NVIDIA: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_36yNWw_07g

I can assure you systems that take advantage of this chip for scientific/ML workloads aren't running Windows.
they may have edited their comment but they were commenting on the lack of quality of their Linux drivers (which I agree with but only on a consumer level, never used nvidia in a server)