Nvidia does not care about the ISA of the CPU at all. They don’t make it after all. Also not clear how they would kill x86. If they leave the consumer GPU market they cede it to AMD and Intel.
Sure, but do you need a discrete video card if you’re gaming on an ARM SoC? And we’ve seen from the struggles of x86 iGPUs that graphics APIs pretty much have to choose whether they’re going to optimize for dedicated VRAM or shared memory, cuz it has inescapable implications for how you structure a game engine. ARM APIs will probably continue optimizing for shared memory, so PCI-E GPUs will always be second-class citizens.
Yes, even for applications other than gaming. There are legitimate mad lads out there running steam games with discrete video cards on Raspberry Pi’s and LLMs. Not to mention there are non soc arm machines. And soc Intel machines.
Sometimes getting the integrated graphics on any of these SOCs working is a much harder prospect than getting a discrete one.
Nvidia does not care about the ISA of the CPU at all. They don’t make it after all. Also not clear how they would kill x86. If they leave the consumer GPU market they cede it to AMD and Intel.
That’s kinda my point. They’re stuck communicating over PCI-E instead of being a first-class co-processor over AMBA.
Nvidia has drivers for arm. They’re not in as good a shape as the X86 one is. But I don’t think it’s that big of a roadblock.
Sure, but do you need a discrete video card if you’re gaming on an ARM SoC? And we’ve seen from the struggles of x86 iGPUs that graphics APIs pretty much have to choose whether they’re going to optimize for dedicated VRAM or shared memory, cuz it has inescapable implications for how you structure a game engine. ARM APIs will probably continue optimizing for shared memory, so PCI-E GPUs will always be second-class citizens.
Yes, even for applications other than gaming. There are legitimate mad lads out there running steam games with discrete video cards on Raspberry Pi’s and LLMs. Not to mention there are non soc arm machines. And soc Intel machines.
Sometimes getting the integrated graphics on any of these SOCs working is a much harder prospect than getting a discrete one.