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by zamalek 1317 days ago
> Configure your InfinityBook Pro 14 optionally with the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 Ti and turn your lightweight business laptop into an ultra-portable gaming console!

Why are so many Linux laptops NVIDIA? It know that we have the OS kernel + blob userspace option now, but it's still early days. My desktop is AMD, my laptop is NVIDIA, and the difference is night-and-day.

I would honestly have an IGPU in a laptop over NVIDIA, but even that option seems few and far between (this specific laptop being an exception).

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Because NVidia works in Linux. Intel isn't really accelerated, and AMD is buggy and doesn't do GPU compute acceleration terribly well.
This is completely false. Modern Nvidia cards on linux can barely get pixels on the screen and does not have power saving modes.
I'm using an NVidia card right now for very high end video work. It works great.

Why would I want power saving modes?

Also all the AI/ML/CUDA tooling is written for NVidia, AMD driver support is terrible.
This alone means my 2023 computer build will have an nVidia GPU.

I know next to nothing about ML. But even I can follow basic instructions to get Stable Diffusion or Spleeter or something to play with.

Installation, configuration and speed to get ML stuff to play with is easy for nVidia users. Sucks for AMD.

Source: current AMD GPU user who dislikes nGreedia but sees no other real option.

because they still don't officially support CUDA on consumer cards, only on the overpriced data center cards