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by batman-farts
1119 days ago
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I can agree on one point: if I want 3D acceleration to Just Work on Linux and I'm muting my inner Stallman, the Nvidia binary drivers have always enabled thtat for me. But on the gaming side, I definitely get the feeling that a bit of Microsoft syndrome is starting to set in at Nvidia: we're by far the market leader, so you'll take what we give you. DLSS is constantly pumped in their marketing (and by reviewers, who are sometimes adjunct marketers) as a no-brainer upscaling solution that you don't need to ever turn off. But I've had two games (Death Stranding and Marvel's Midnight Suns) crash repeatedly and unpredictably with DLSS enabled, then run happily stable once DLSS was turned off. I only even became aware of the Marvel game because it was advertised in their Game Ready! driver update, but both the drivers and the game clearly weren't ready. In that particular case, it was also primed to devolve into a circular firing squad between Nvidia, Epic providing Unreal Engine, and the game developer as to who implemented what wrong... something I think we'll probably continue to see. As far as overpricing goes, I think the pushback (and AMD's pricing advantage) will definitely come on VRAM. I was only able to get a 3080 10GB close to MSRP when the GPU shortage started to abate, and people are already reporting that it's maxing out that amount on Diablo 4 at 1440p ultrawide max settings. Yes, there's been inflation, Moore's Law isn't what it used to be, and it had been years since I had bought a discrete GPU, but that doesn't change the fact that I've paid a premium price and I'm not future-proof for 4K or ultrawide, either of the two popular monitor upgrade paths. The bulk of this can be attributed squarely to Nvidia's desire to maintain market segmentation and profit margins. If AMD really can close the yawning CUDA gap on the software side and start to force more commoditization in the GPU market, it can only be a good thing. |
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