Before buying nvidia

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The TL;DW: nvidia seems to engage in even more shady marketing practice which makes it harder to get independent reviews and not just repeats of the marketing slides.

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OTOH, I use an nVidia card and, IMO, it is excellent. It is an RTX-2060KO and I use it with Arch Linux.

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Yes, just because the company behind them can be acting unethically or dishonestly, it doesn’t mean their products are bad. But I think it’s good that we have journalism and reports like this so we as consumers can make informed choices of where we want to spend our money and who we want to support.

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I agree. Thanks.

PS - Actually, the card is made by EVGA using an nVidia chipset.

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The card being EVGA is also very relevant to this story. EVGA has mostly ended because nvidia was giving them smaller and smaller margins to play with. Coupled with all the issues the cards were having due to problems not directly related to them, such as melting power plug, it meant that their business was no longer profitable and they had to pretty much close the company.

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Hint: EVGA no longer is in the GPU business because of the way nvidia treats its partners.

Gamers nexus has a nice video about EVGA’s exit from that market.

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Thanks. I had no idea about EVGA being out of the display card business. I had this PC built in around 2020. It still performs well. 32 GB of DDR4 and a 750 watt power supply with a 12 processor (24 thread) Ryzen 9 processor.

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I can repeat my experience. For many years I ran various NVidia cards on FreeBSD and Linux. The cards were not cheap and worked fine, though on some Linux distros like Fedora they required extra steps. 2 years ago I decided to try AMD GPU and so far they worked better than NVidia. Not as expensive, no hassle in Fedora nor FreeBSD, everything works, including OpenCL for DT.

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I remember it was really sad news that day. Even though I never buy nvidia GPUs, I had bought other EVGA products and really liked them (still have one of their PSUs). They were the equivalent of Sapphire with AMD cards: good quality, good price, good service.

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These seem priced well but not sure how long it might take for mature driver support…maybe its not an issue I am not sure how intel supports these for linux…

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My A380 has been painless. Just wish fwupd/lvfs was supported by Intel so I can easily update firmware without a Win2Go bootable.

Using Alpine/MUSL and no issues, unlike NVIDIA which wont support MUSL distros.

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