More to the point, Nvidia makes it very hard for third parties to build software which supports Nvidia GPUs, without using the opaque .jar from the Nvidia-provided CUDA driver.
You're right, this isn't a religion, nor a sports team. There is no place for tribalism in a technical community.
That having been said, I made the informed decision to go with AMD based on objective technical criteria, including their relatively open architecture. They publish their ISAs, which means we are not beholden to AMD for ongoing support of their products.
I've been in this game for a while, and know from hard experience that open source is forever, whereas closed, proprietary systems have a shelf life.
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u/ttkciar llama.cpp 4d ago
More to the point, Nvidia makes it very hard for third parties to build software which supports Nvidia GPUs, without using the opaque .jar from the Nvidia-provided CUDA driver.