Can it be avoided using the "advanced" option in the setup wizard and deselect everything but the graphics driver (,the physics engine and the sound driver)?
Nvidia adds telemetry to latest drivers
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#42Please AMD make competitive products to keep Intel and nvidia honest!
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#43Please AMD make competitive products to keep Intel and nvidia honest!
The 480 is really competitive right now, especially when you can get one for ~$150 with discounts on sale in the last couple weeks.
Hopefully Zen can complete at least at the $200 price point with Intel.
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I'm... confused why you'd say this. It's simply true: NVIDIA's consistently ahead on these tasks on performance/energy cost metric. You can do most any computation on any GPU with the right SDK support (and of course, the CPU hasn't gone anywhere). It's just fantastically less efficient.
It really isn't true - AMD cards utterly crushed nVidia ones during the heydey of mining: http://www.extremetech.com/computing/153467-amd-destroys-nvi...
GPU mining is only one of a multitude of GPGPU applications right now and it really isn't even growing.
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Some background. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IVpOyKCNZYw Shouldn't be a problem anymore under Linux as most distros today install Nouveau drivers by default. https://nouveau.freedesktop.org/wiki/
Nouveau has no CUDA support, unfortunately.
It can't, Nouveau is not developed by Nvidia.
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#46On a related note; I can't even use NVidia's "Geforce Experience" any more without logging in. Thanks for that, NVidia. Just what I wanted; a driver tool that forces me to log in.
I just uninstalled GFE3 and went back to 2. Still works.
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#48I'm surprised by the backlash against telemetry on HN. How else are you supposed to improve reliability of software used on tens of millions of devices with an ear infinite number of hardware and software permutations?
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> Firstly for all the previous things they have done, for example their lack of driver support for free operating systems which is why Linus said this It is not Nvidia's job to prop up the desktop linux ecosystem. It's wise not to invest time in that ecosystem, as far as I can tell. It's got an ongoing history of disappointing its customers and vendors over and over. And we get good enough computational support ever…
NVIDIA could release documentation on their hardware that would make it easier for Nouveau developers to do their work, but they don't. Nobody is asking for free labor on a low-marketshare OS.
NVIDIA's own linux drivers are excellent, they are considerably better than AMD's ones (reversal from the days of ATI), but they are closed source.
NVIDIA released Linux drivers hand in hand with their Windows based ones, you get at least one update every month.
So while it's true that you can't have a completely open source driver for NVIDIA you do have excellent Linux drivers.
On the compute side NVIDIA's support for Linux is also unmatched, in fact for many things CUDA actually works better on Linux than on Windows.
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#50I'm surprised by the backlash against telemetry on HN. How else are you supposed to improve reliability of software used on tens of millions of devices with an ear infinite number of hardware and software permutations?
And yet, people do.