AMD Driver Screw Up: Hurt Confidence and Poor Decision Making
Added 2025-11-06 06:32:34 +0000 UTCEpisode 88: AMD does AMD things.
CHAPTERS
00:00 - Intro
00:22 - Microsoft Improves a Few Things
04:15 - AMD's Disastrous Driver Fumble
23:31 - What About Feature Support?
46:03 - Reputational Damage vs Nvidia Drivers
01:01:39 - How Big of a Mistake? Who to Blame?
01:19:52 - Impact on Review Recommendations
01:52:59 - Quick Boring Life Stuff
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One thing I learned recently that might be relevant to the driver support discussion: Nvidia's RTX 20xx series and up (and probably the GTX 16xx series too) have a new chip (the GPU System Processor or GSP) that handles a lot of the low level operations, so drivers don't have to deal with them. A new open source driver project for Linux (Nova) is trying to take advantage of this and specifically targets the RTX 20xx series and up. So Nvidia actually have a good reason to deprecate support for the GTX 10xx series, which require the drivers to handle this low level stuff - but AMD have had their System Management Unit (SMU) since Vega. Now sure, there were other changes between the architectures, but nothing nearly as fundamental.
Ver Greeneyes
2025-11-06 23:17:24 +0000 UTC
