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GenderNeutralBro ,

As a reminder, the same (closed-source) user-space components for OpenGL / OpenCL / Vulkan / CUDA are used regardless of the NVIDIA kernel driver option with their official driver stack.

CUDA hell remains. :(

magikmw ,

The fact that cuda means ‘wonders’ in polish is living in my mind rent free several days after I read about nvidia news.

filister OP ,

Yes, the CUDA is the only reason why I consider NVIDIA. I really hate this company but the AMD tech stack is really inferior.

possiblylinux127 ,

AMD needs to get their ducks in a row. They already have the advantage of not being Nvidia

istanbullu ,

it’s breaking down. Pytorch supports ROCm now.

ProdigalFrog ,

ROCm is it’s own hell (unless they finally put some resources into it in the past couple years)

sunzu ,

How is it different. Wouldn't just be the same software with source code available?

krolden ,
@krolden@lemmy.ml avatar

Yes

SMillerNL ,

It’s not, they’re not open sourcing their driver. They’ve made an open source driver.

sunzu ,

Is there a reason to reinvent the wheel?

CMDR_Horn ,

Control, precedent, bean counter analysis etc. Pick your poison.

seaQueue ,
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Usually this is done for licensing reasons. They probably don’t want the old code caught up in the open license they’re shipping the new driver under.

My understanding is that the new open driver separates proprietary code into a black box binary blob that isn’t distributed under an open source license. I’m guessing that they’ve been very careful not to include anything they want to keep closed into the new open driver, whereas the old driver wasn’t written with this separation in mind.

sunzu ,

I was wondering about what they were doing with their "secret sauce", thanks for explaining.

boredsquirrel ,
@boredsquirrel@slrpnk.net avatar

Well… it is an out-of-tree kernel driver that is made by the same company, and the userspace drivers are still proprietary.

This says NOTHING other than “wow NVIDIA can write good code that doesnt suck”?

chirospasm ,
@chirospasm@lemmy.ml avatar

Woohoo!

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