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by ARandomerDude 6 days ago
I know nothing about this topic but your comment piqued my curiosity. What would a $500 AMD GPU do better than DGX?
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bigyabai 6 days ago
AMD has Mesa drivers for graphics, which are better-optimized than Nvidia's proprietary Linux Vulkan drivers. It can be fixed in software, but Nvidia's only barely started to catch up.

The focus for Nvidia's GPU stack on Linux is getting CUDA working, which means that some traditional raster features get neglected.

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pjmlp 6 days ago
NVIDIA also cares about Hollywood and CAD/CAM shops.

I learnt three times that AMD isn't necessarily better in Linux as advertised, now I don't care any longer.

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abe_m 6 days ago
I'm not aware of any commercial CAD/CAM software running Linux that Nvidia would have a money interest in supporting. Which current CAD/CAM is running on Linux with graphics? The closest I'm aware of it FEA packages allowing remote calculation on Linux machines while the GUI runs on Windows. Is that what you're referring to?
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pjmlp 6 days ago
BricsCAD, ARES Commander and Platicity come to mind.
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bigyabai 6 days ago
A lot of Hollywood studios use renderers that jump straight to CUDA as their backend. Cycles is a popular one, as well as Renderman and Octane.
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pjmlp 6 days ago
Linux is part of the VFX reference platform, and you forgot Hyperion, for example.
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