Why Was This Linus Sebastian's Last Ever AMD GPU - Is He Really an Nvidia Shill!?

Why did Linus ignore AMD for 15 long years?! Is he really an Nvidia Shill, or is there more to it? In this video we take a look at Linus' last ever AMD graphics card and work out why he would have picked it over the more popular and better performing Nvidia 8800GT.

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[BloodshedRomance]

Try booting it as a secondary card with another gpu as the primary and see if it shows in device manager. Maybe current motherboard bios can't even boot from it.

Some motherboards can also force previous gen pci e compatibility. May be worth a shot.

[garrettturner]

Your card is NOT dead. It simply doesn't have a UEFI boot mode needed for modern computers. You can try enabling legacy/csm support for older cards.

[JustTheJames]

Shame about your card being dead, but you did a great job saving the video. Had I been in your position, I would have written the whole thing off demotivated. Really interesting seeing how history is repeating itself.

[BazT]

Where have you been? Hope you are well?! Any videos due in 2024?

[gaddy]

super high production quality and very entertaining presentation, super good job :D

[creed]

I quit Nvidia because of all the card failures I had ... AMD has been solid since my last Nvidia purchase -8800 gt

[Pillokun]

had both ati/amd and nvidia card back then, it was because of ati/amd that benchmarkers started to include frametimes in their graphs. when Grenada(hd 390/390x) were released then amd started to take the frame time issue seriously. And dont forget the poor drivers, many times larger than nvidias larger and when you downloaded the 200MB large drivers from amd and almost hit 90% of the installation it suddenly stopped and said that installation would close because of a plethora of different reasons, like not having the supported hw? like wth... and even today such issues persist, just this week I wanted to install drivers for my 7600 non x igpu but was not allowed to because hw was not supported even though I downloaded the drivers specifically in the zen5 download tab... AMD is like always, a second fiddle and they are happy being there.

[Edgelord-rnhe]

I don't think Linus is an NVidia shill, if anything he and other popular PC Youtubers like him are AMD shills these days.

[SianaGearz]

Reason for NVidia? Number one being, vendor lock-in!

CUDA. If you're doing any sort of... numerous kinds of stuff, you've been needing that, because honestly, OpenCL was TERRIBLE. OpenGL support on AMD has always been bad as well, but well that's largely not NVidia's doing, just AMD lacking the budget to keep up, but that factors in as well. To be fair, OpenGL has grown into a monstrosity that is nearly impossible to support properly, and i'm DELIGHTED to see it die off soon-ish.

Now with Vulkan Compute things are changing again; and yet Blender is only slated to be ported to Vulkan THIS year. Other software might take a while yet.

Why this GPU isn't doing anything? Do you have CSM enabled? The card doesn't have an UEFI option ROM!