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So 20-series onwards.
Yes. Everything older is unsupported in terms of the new Linux stuff anymore. Planned obsolescence yk?
I doubt very much it's about whether they are allowed too or not. They're the ones at the top of the hardware supply chain, designing their own chips and having them fabricated. It's them telling other companies, like Gigabyte and EVGA, what they are allowed or not allowed to do.
Hmdi 2.1 and the hdmi consortium prevented them from releasing code. It wasn't even proprietary, just based on a licensed implementation from what I understood.
My ol' 1070 doesn't make the cut hey... ;-;
Maybe it's just because I'm older and more jaded, but that really feels like the last truly good era for GPUs.
Those 10 series cards had a ton of staying power, and the 480/580 were such damn good value cards.
It's more that back then was a better time for price to performance value. The 3000 and 4000 series cards were basically linear upgrades in terms of price to performance.
It's an indicator that there haven't been major innovations in the GPU space, besides perhaps the addition of the AI and Raytracing stuff, if you want to count those as upgrades.
It feels like the crypto mining goldrush really changed the way GPU manufacturers view the market.
I feel like AI has changed the game. Why sell retail when people are paying you billions to run LLMs in the cloud.