I just thought this was too funny not to share. Suck it, NoVidea.
It is funny. Unlikely to be really true, but funny.
Even if not true, that’s the type of thing that makes AMD where I go for stuff.
I used to think that way until they started paying game developers to exclude their competitors technologies.
That’s the name of a game, NoVidya is so guilty of it as well - they all always were…
Well, like all things in life recently it seems, we get to pick the least worst choice. At least AMD seems to work very well on Linux!
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As far as I know, they have never done that. Of course, they have done plenty of other anti-consumer things over the years.
And, as always, one vendor doing bad things doesn’t make it OK for a different vendor to do different bad things. They should both be held accountable.
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Are you for real?
Enjoy your ride! 
Absolutely, i never said it was ok, that’s an absolute garbage.
Bah who cares lol…in the end it really can’t be argued that AMD is not > Nvidia on linux. It just works. P.S.
Linus Torvalds says “f–k you” to NVIDIA | Ars Technica
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As far as I can tell there’s no third or other options. I’ll be all AMD for quite some time.
Does Intel make external GPU?
Yes, they just recently started.
The first generation has been a little rough but their upcoming battlemage GPUs will be interesting to see once they come out.
What surprised me a lot about the Intel ARC GPUs is their very strong RT performance…
I wonder how strong they will be once they fix their drivers which by the way, which is an ongoing work
Yeah, their drivers have gotten much, much better.
Their Achilles heal is dx11 right now. They have made improvements but their is a ways to go I think.
Of course, unless you play older games that might not be an issue for you.
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There’s definitely been a leap. I’m playing Control, Doom Eternal, CP2077, Witcher3, Jedi Fallen Order, No Mans Sky, Horizon Zero Dawn, (the list goes on) on a 6700XT, and they’re running flawlessly. I’m not sure when or where the change happened as this is my first AMD card in a decade, but it’s a stunning example of how good things are right now.
While corporations aren’t your friends, AMD is, for now, on the right side of the battle.
Cool, it’ll be nice to have a3rd player, plus Intel has always been extremely Linux friendly. I’d happily support them if they put up decent quality.
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@dalto was talking about Intel’s ARC GPU btw 
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I’m not a gamer, apart Mame and some small games, I think my next GPU will be an Intel one, the value for money is very good.
I’m a casual gamer, once in two weeks more or less I play a few matches of SC2.
My next PC won’t even have a discrete GPU, I’ll get a good CPU with integrated graphics.
Could be Intel or AMD…
The change that kicked it all off was in autumn 2015 when AMD kicked its proprietary fglrx driver in the buttocks and went open source. After that, Valve, Mesa, Wine, RedHat and many other big and small players stepped in and helped in the development of the drivers that were now part of the kernel and mesa (like it’s supposed to be on Linux anyway).
It took some time but for 3-4 years, AMD basically is where it should be on the feature-, performance- and stability front.
The only thing that was still not optimal was support of brand new hardware (one had to get the firmware-files and mesa from outside the repo’s to get it working), but the last year saw some steps in that direction and it appears like day 1 support is now happening (it did exist for the Radeon 7600 and let’s see how the Radeon 7700 and 7800 work in September)
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I am curious to see what AMD does with integrated graphics going forward on the desktop CPU side. In the past, they had CPUs with and without them and were trying to push the boundaries of integrated graphics. With the Ryzen 7000 series, they included them across the board but cut them way back performance-wise.