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I'm waiting for AMD to show their hand, but this is a very strong first strike from nvidia.

Sure, if the bold 2x performance increase claim is to be believed. I'd wait for benchmarks to validate that.

Plus for me, Nvidia is simply DOA on Linux, due them refusing to upstream their driver and hindering Nouveau to reclock properly. So even if AMD won't outdo them, I still won't touch Nvidia.

Ditto. But it’s pretty much certain that even if the new AMD cards don’t match the top Nvidia performance, they’re still going to be competitive or better on cost/performance. So you don’t have to worry about missing anything if you go AMD for Linux.

I’m just glad that we’ve finally gotten past that ceiling at ~13 TFLOPs. Nvidia has been hobbling along for a few years, so a breakthrough is nice.

I think whether AMD can match price/performance is very much up in the air right now.

If nvidia's performance claims are real then that is a massive challenge for AMD to meet.

> Plus for me, Nvidia is simply DOA on Linux

Same. The best this announcement does for me is force AMD to reduce the price of their GPUs. Which is appreciated, because I am due to upgrade.

Never had an issue using the proprietary driver on linux, myself.

I know, I know, it would be nice to have a proper FOSS driver, and better for integration, updates etc. But it does work fine, IMHO.

Depends, it works for cases Nvidia care about. But what you call integration means all other cases :) And there it simply falls apart or takes decades to be fixed.

In linux as long as I can get XFCE going, all thw screens at the right res and scling levela, and the cuda drivers working, I'm generally happy :)

I'm probably pretty easy to please :)

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