[metastew]

What does this mean for Nvidia and AMD?

[zxcdw]

They probably have more pressure to invest in Linux driver development.

[venomsnake]

Nothing. The people that buy 250 watt, 300mm^2 GPUs to play games will continue to buy them.

[marcosdumay]

Yep, they'll buy from one of them. How will they choose?

I think free drivers will become important. But maybe I'm wrong, and they'll just get the one that consume more watts.

[simplemath]

Battlefield dabbler - my 7970 confirms anecdotally.

[egeozcan]

I guess, as long as this is kept as an open platform, even in the case that they can't get in the official build, they could still create alternative steam-compatible builds.