So? Electricity is cheap. Doesn't phase me at all. I leave a PC running 24/7/365 and have for years. Serving plex, bitcoin mining, etc. Doesn't do anything to my electric bill.
Yeah still doesn't bother me. I'll just put the box under the desk if it's an issue. FYI, I don't use headphones. Hate wearing them.
Yeah, of course Nvidia sucks on the platform that doesn't support it whatsoever.
This. Nvidia is closed. I hate them for that, and so does Torvalds. But I still use their cards, lol
So please explain to me how AMD gpu's are better than Nvidia's offerings? Please show me where the testings are in favor of the Vega 64, instead of the GTX 1080 (or 1080 TI). In the BIG scheme of things, the majority of these GPU's are sold to customers that use Windows. The best drivers you can get for these devices will be on Windows. Nvidia dominates AMD in the GPU world. Nvidia is 85.3% compared to AMD 8.91% of marketshare according to Steam. Link
Nvidia does support OpenCL, I think Metal too. If we're pointing fingers, Apple is definitely the biggest offender in the GPU space. They've had ridiculously tight control forever, and for that reason nobody uses Macs for graphics-intensive tasks, so ofc Nvidia won't bother making drivers. And Apple still doesn't support OpenGL properly; they want everyone to use their proprietary Metal APIs.
Which is going to be their downfall. They are not willing to adapt to others standards. And after seeing what Nvidia recently announced, it would be foolish not to be supporting them at this point. Their RTX cards are going to be a huge hit when it comes to rendering.
Vega 56/64 are not bad cards at all. Performance wise, they are pretty good. But after the RX4XX series cards, people were waiting on a high end card. Not one that would match performance from the previous gen R9 390X. A year later, they rehash the same cards with minor improvements for the Rx5XX series. And the hype surrounding Vega at the time seemed like it would be a 1080 TI killer, which was a let down for the price.
