Nvidia: Difference between revisions

Line 20:

===Forced Arbitration===

In Nvidia's terms of service regarding accessing their website, under "Informal Resolution" users are required to agree to resolve legal disputes with Nvidia by arbitration from Judicial Arbitration and Mediation Services (JAMS).<ref>{{Cite web |title=NVIDIA Legal Notices |url=https://www.nvidia.com/en-gb/about-nvidia/terms-of-service/ |access-date=2025-06-19 |website=NVIDIA |language=en-gb |archive-url=http://web.archive.org/web/20260221043438/https://www.nvidia.com/en-gb/about-nvidia/terms-of-service/ |archive-date=21 Feb 2026}}</ref>

===Artificial FP64 Limitation on Consumer GPUs (''~2013 - Present'')===

Nvidia manufactures consumer GPUs that share identical or near-identical silicon with their enterprise Tesla and Quadro product lines, yet artificially restricts double precision floating point (FP64) compute performance on consumer variants through firmware and driver configuration rather than hardware incapability. The GTX 780 and the Tesla K40, for instance, both use the GK110 die, yet the Tesla K40 delivers FP64 performance at 1/3 the rate of FP32, while the GTX 780 is limited to 1/24.<ref>{{Cite web |last=ArrayFire |date= |title=Explaining FP64 performance on GPUs |url=https://arrayfire.com/blog/explaining-fp64-performance-on-gpus/ |url-status=live |access-date=2026-03-02 |website=ArrayFire}}</ref> The original GeForce GTX Titan briefly shipped with near-full FP64 capability enabled, serving both as Nvidia's consumer flagship and entry-level FP64 compute card simultaneously. From Maxwell onward, Nvidia permanently dropped FP64 on consumer parts to 1/32 of FP32 performance, fully divorcing consumer and enterprise silicon feature sets despite continued die sharing.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Angelini |first=Chris |date=2015-03-17 |title=GM200 - All Graphics, Hold The Double Precision |url=https://www.anandtech.com/show/9059/the-nvidia-geforce-gtx-titan-x-review/2 |url-status=live |access-date=2026-03-02 |website=AnandTech}}</ref> This practice steers users requiring FP64 compute toward enterprise products that can cost several times more than equivalent consumer hardware built on the same die.

===Stagnation of Consumer GPU Offerings===

@@ Line 20: / Line 20: @@
 ===Forced Arbitration===
 In Nvidia's terms of service regarding accessing their website, under "Informal Resolution" users are required to agree to resolve legal disputes with Nvidia by arbitration from Judicial Arbitration and Mediation Services (JAMS).<ref>{{Cite web |title=NVIDIA Legal Notices |url=https://www.nvidia.com/en-gb/about-nvidia/terms-of-service/ |access-date=2025-06-19 |website=NVIDIA |language=en-gb |archive-url=http://web.archive.org/web/20260221043438/https://www.nvidia.com/en-gb/about-nvidia/terms-of-service/ |archive-date=21 Feb 2026}}</ref>
+===Artificial FP64 Limitation on Consumer GPUs (''~2013 - Present'')===
+Nvidia manufactures consumer GPUs that share identical or near-identical silicon with their enterprise Tesla and Quadro product lines, yet artificially restricts double precision floating point (FP64) compute performance on consumer variants through firmware and driver configuration rather than hardware incapability. The GTX 780 and the Tesla K40, for instance, both use the GK110 die, yet the Tesla K40 delivers FP64 performance at 1/3 the rate of FP32, while the GTX 780 is limited to 1/24.<ref>{{Cite web |last=ArrayFire |date= |title=Explaining FP64 performance on GPUs |url=https://arrayfire.com/blog/explaining-fp64-performance-on-gpus/ |url-status=live |access-date=2026-03-02 |website=ArrayFire}}</ref> The original GeForce GTX Titan briefly shipped with near-full FP64 capability enabled, serving both as Nvidia's consumer flagship and entry-level FP64 compute card simultaneously. From Maxwell onward, Nvidia permanently dropped FP64 on consumer parts to 1/32 of FP32 performance, fully divorcing consumer and enterprise silicon feature sets despite continued die sharing.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Angelini |first=Chris |date=2015-03-17 |title=GM200 - All Graphics, Hold The Double Precision |url=https://www.anandtech.com/show/9059/the-nvidia-geforce-gtx-titan-x-review/2 |url-status=live |access-date=2026-03-02 |website=AnandTech}}</ref> This practice steers users requiring FP64 compute toward enterprise products that can cost several times more than equivalent consumer hardware built on the same die.
 ===Stagnation of Consumer GPU Offerings===