GPP '' made up '' scandal .... there i corrected it for you !
How many GPUs were affected by NV deciding to cheap out on the solder used? NV never accepted fault and the only actual fix was to get a new run of GPUs made. All of the suggested fixes only delayed the GPU failures. I only know of one company that actually forced NV to make a corrected run, and they are incredibly rare. I managed to snag a reissue motherboard for my T61.
OpenCuda like most of Nvidia's tech is closed and designed to force you onto their hardware. CUDA cores suck compared to AMDs compute units, but NV tries their hardest to kill or stall OpenCL adoption because the only company that can make CUDA cores is NV, so they cripple OpenCL on their hardware, and make CUDA look so much better.
Stuffing black box code into games that devs aren't even allowed to look at. That suspiciously enhances performance for one side but causes problems for the other.
G-sync is more of the same, let's make a piece of hardware mandatory that doesn't actually improve upon frame sync tech that's built into Display Port, but few monitors actually supported both. Now they came out with gSync that le gasp uses the open standard but they still try to spin it as the gimped edition. Intel started pushing the open standard, so NV had to cave.
Look at EVGA, they literally can't even make an AMD chipset motherboard. Ever wonder why?
PhysX... Oh we can't have people getting PhysX with a Radeon or other GPU, so let's lock the drivers and kill that. RTX is the same closed source garbage, NV is sweating because the consoles will be all rocking open standard RTRT... How much is it going to cost them to buy off the devs to redo the RT coding so NV doesn't have to run it through a wrapper.
Yeah, NV is a dream to deal with if you aren't a consumer who wants choice. They'll throw money and samples at you, coddle and swaddle you, but there's a real price.
I'm sorry I should clarify they do have one GPU that can actually do FP64 than AMD... It certainly isn't affordable though...
Volta is a beast, but the cheapest version is the Titan V and it costs what $3000usd
Titan V $2,999 USD 7.45Tflops FP64
Radeon VII $699 USD 3.36Tflops FP64
Ok we'll add in the special kid...
2080 Ti $999 USD 0.42Tflops FP64
Aww isn't it cute...
Oh and that glorious chunk of NV silicon... Only supports OpenCL 1.2... But it supports the latest CUDA. While the V20 series supports OpenCL 2.0...
The Radeon HD 7790 supports OpenCL 2.0, that's 7 years ago... Nvidia wants to lock you onto their hardware...
I seriously suspect if Intel's GPU takes off, you'll suddenly see NV supporting the open standard, because Intel does OpenCL...
Nvidia is a company that just abuses it's dominant position in a different way than most.
I just dislike their practices and when I can I will always support the open standard hardware. If this was NV they wouldn't have improved the cards performance while not charging a penny more. Actually NV showed what they would do, push failed cores at a slightly reduced price that use more power than the slightly more expensive versions.
TLDR...
AMD did something that NV would never have done. AMD gave people a 5600XT Super basically for free...
That is a good guy move and the competition is good, hopefully it'll chew into NV's market share more.
Edit: NV also makes a requirement that GPUs are tested outside of a case on a test bench for all temp and performance testing, but for noise testing they want the card in a case... Review like the guide wants or no samples for you! Ever wonder why all of those GPUs are tested like they are...Oh because when you get it home mount it in a case and game long and hard, you won't notice the GPU pulling clocks because of the heat, right?
*whistles innocently*
