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EVGA decision [1] to stop selling NVIDIA cards looks every day smarter

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32870677

On many levels, NVIDIA is the Riot Games of GPUs.

I've played League of Legends for 10 years and have no idea why Riot Games would be a good analogue for NVIDIA. Can you elaborate?

Maybe because so many people say the hate riot or nvidia but can't really tell you why and continue to use their products?

They reportedly made some prototype 4000 series cards, so I wonder if they saw a problem in the spec and that was the final straw.

That's what I'm thinking, too. EVGA seems like a pretty reliable manufacturer in my experience, their bus-powered 1050 Ti lasted me 7 years and still runs in my brother's PC, to my knowledge. Wouldn't surprise me if Nvidia rejected some board revision EVGA suggested, which led to the ensuing fallout.

I'm still looking for a good replacement to my EVGA bus-powered 1050Ti. I just want a bus-powered GPU that can run desktop applications. I have a separate one with a power connector for ML stuff.

Are the new Intel GPUs bus powered? If not, they could make a killing off of frugal Linux users by offering a chip designed around the ~70w TDP of a PCI bus.

I think the A380 is, but the only one I can find is ASRock and is too tall to fit in my case.

The Intel A380 is an absolute utter joke of a GPU and I question why it even exists.

It's barely an upgrade over your 1050 Ti.

I urge you to check out the Gamers Nexus benchmarking of it before you consider buyinug it. https://youtu.be/La-dcK4h4ZU

If it uses the Intel GPU drivers, then it could bench worse and still be an upgrade over the Nvidia card (at least for Linux users).

I could potentially use it with Wayland, which I can't reasonably do with the 1050 Ti.

If you aren't planning on using it for gaming, check out the Intel Arc Pro A40 instead. It's a nice little single thickness 50 watt bus powered card with modern specs.

https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/products/docs/arc-di...

That does look nice, but nobody seems to be selling one yet.

Please don't needlessly shit on Intel GPUs. The last thing we need is sustaining the Ngreedia and AMD price gouging GPU duopoly.

Intel GPUs are great if you want the best linux drivers and they do AV1 decode and encode.

If you're, for example, a gaming streamer, or you need to encode CCTV or other kinds of footage and stream it as cheaply as possible, or if you do video editing in DaVinci resolve or other apps, then the AV1 accelerator capabilities of such a budget GPU are a godsend.

I use a rx6400 to drive 2 4k displays, and it works great. Out of the box Linux support, too.

That was on my short-list to look at, good to have another data-point. How is the Linux support? My most recent video card experience with AMD is a HD 6350 and that has very mediocre linux support (as became obvious when KDE and Firefox both started using GPU assisted rendering by default)

AMD open sourced their drivers and maintains them directly in the kernel now, ever since 2017. No issues at all for me using Ubuntu 20.04 or 22.04, which uses Wayland and GPU rendering by default.

GTX 1650 has 75 watt TDP and has low profile variant that can fit small form factor case.

The lower end Quadro (but it's not actually called Quadro) cards from nvidia are pretty good. RTX A2000 and T1000

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