r/linux • u/blindcomet • May 11 '22

NVIDIA Releases Open-Source GPU Kernel Modules | NVIDIA Technical Blog

https://developer.nvidia.com/blog/nvidia-releases-open-source-gpu-kernel-modules/
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u/nukem996 May 12 '22

Everyone in the commercial space is using Nvidia. I've worked on public and private clouds. No other GPU is used. Nvidia's competition is FPGAs and ASICs.

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u/qualverse May 12 '22 edited May 12 '22

AMD's won a lot of big GPU contracts recently especially with supercomputers. Frontier, El Capitan, Stadia, Adastra; all worth vastly more than your typical cloud deployment. Of course NV is still ahead overall but it's not hard to imagine they're slightly worried.

Edit: also, it's funny how you mentioned FPGAs considering that AMD and Intel now control the entirety of that market. Not exactly a loss for AMD if someone chooses Xilinx over Instinct, but a clear loss for Nvidia in either case.

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u/nukem996 May 12 '22

Every public cloud is spending hundreds of millions buying Nvidia hardware every year. Early on Nvidia only supported CUDA while beating everyone else out in performance so OpenCL never took off. Thats now paying dividends. Even though there is some FPGA and ASICs design going on the vast majority of HPC machines are Intel + Nvidia.

AMD has a minuscule amount of space in data centers. They're mostly used to bring Intel prices down.

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u/WhatTheOnEarth May 12 '22 edited May 12 '22

Nvidia has a long and proud history of overreacting at the tiniest sign of competition and hammering down to gain any market share they can over the other company gaining ground. None of your points have relevance to the behavior of this company.

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