• KubeRoot@discuss.tchncs.de
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    8 months ago

    I’m pretty sure most people love NVidia, since it’s the popular option, generally works, and provides features that aren’t available elsewhere, both in gaming and GPU compute.

    Of course, most of NVidia’s advantages come down to marketing and pushing for their proprietary technologies, while avoiding supporting niche users and refusing to release their code. The thing is though, if you use Windows, NVidia is probably the better choice from an end-user’s point of view.

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      8 months ago

      If you’ve been PC gaming on windows for a long time (a much longer time than I have actually) you’ll have beef with Nvidia. You’ll remember what they did. You’ll remember when they released a driver to specifically break PhysX if there was an AMD card installed. You’ll remember them consulting with game studios shortly before the release of certain games just to put yandere simulator toothbrush levels of too much polygon in certain scenes to make sure their cards benched favorably in said games. You’ll remember a shit tonne of things like that they did. From an end user’s perspective, a fair amount of users have a chip on their shoulder for one thing or another that Nvidia did.

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        8 months ago

        They are still scummy. I have on good authority they offer big monetary advantages to engineers working for competitors if they come join them taking a couple a trade secrets and source code along side them.

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          8 months ago

          I have on good authority

          I’m not doubting you, this sounds exactly like something they’d do, but I’d still like some sauce with it (to use as ammunition in online arguments)

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            Here is a recent example: Lawsuit accuses Nvidia of stealing trade secrets — perpetrator busted with a screenshot of stolen code | Tom’s Hardware. While we don’t know for sure if Nvidia was involved in the theft, here is what my insider view brings to the picture (and here, you can trust me or not):

            1. While working for Valeo, it’s impossible to not know the consequences for stealing source-code and other secrets. Like most companies of this size, you need to go through this wonderful “anti-trust, bribery and compliance” training every year, with a test and signature at the end. This guy knew what risk he was taking by stealing source-code. Personally, I wouldn’t take this risk unless I am offered with a life-changing amount of money.
            2. I know from former coworkers with similar profiles than mine, that while they were paid ~85k€ at Valeo, Bosch will get you ~75k€ and Nvidia will take you for ~115k€. They definitely have a good budget to get engineers out of the competitors.

            P.S. I realize this is not proving anything and it sounds mostly like “trust me bro”. Make of this what you want.

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        8 months ago

        That’s the thing - none of those would’ve affected you negatively if you’ve been using Nvidia, so if you’re just playing games and not following the news, you’re more likely to just hear people complain about AMD this, AMD that, they broke it… But everything works fine for you