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Comment by wewewedxfgdf

7 hours ago

Nvidia supports their cards for many years - even quite old cards often have modern drivers.

AMD just does not see the world this way.

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kokada  6 hours ago

NVIDIA ended support for their 10xx series [1]. To be clear, AMD also moved support for their equivalent 5xxx series to legacy drivers [2], but "supports their cards for many years" doesn't hold value if both companies stopped their respective GPUs at basically the same time.

Also remember that one of those 2 companies has opensource drivers for Linux for their old GPUs, while the other doesn't (newer NVIDIA GPUs have an opensource driver but this isn't the case for the 10xx series). Users of legacy NVIDIA cards needs on Linux needs to use their old driver branches, with results that are less than optimal to say the least.

[1]: https://videocardz.com/newz/nvidia-officially-ends-geforce-g...

[2]: https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2025/11/amd-says-that-its-no...

bigfatkitten  7 hours ago

This is about their FPGA tooling. It has nothing whatsoever to do with GPUs.

  • wewewedxfgdf  7 hours ago

    So? I'm making a true observation about the companies. I am well aware this is about FPGA and that has nothing to do with my comment.

    • KeplerBoy  6 hours ago

      It is completely different. FPGA tooling is not the same as a driver for a consumer product.

      A lot of the serious CUDA compute stuff is also not supported on all platforms (it's linux only, because why would you do such stuff on windows).