Valve might be sponsoring some work on improving Wayland compositors, since that's where Linux desktop is heading and having good gaming support in them should be important for Valve.

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About supply issues, see also:
https://www.anandtech.com/show/16409/amd-ceo-dr-lisa-su-interview-on-2021-demand-supply-tariffs-xilinx-and-epyc [External Link]

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Quoting: nattydreadI'm really trying to source an RX 5600XT they are sold out everywhere!

Shortages are expected to last at least until next month.

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If only it was possible to buy already existing RDNA 2 GPUs. Shortages are rampant now.

Still waiting to find Sapphire Pulse RX 6800 XT anywhere.

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Intel might become a bigger factor, but so far they don't have anything comparable to higher end cards, they seem to be more focused on AI now than on gaming, but may be they'll make something in the near future.

DLSS won't really help Nvidia have an edge for a long time. I think AMD are leading some effort to make a standard method for upscaling, that's not tied to specific hardware. At that point Nvidia will probably rush to make some new hardware specific feature they'll be hyping but nobody will be really using and that thing will go on and on. It becomes more of a marketing game than actual progress unfortunately.

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Looking forward to Wine getting spatial audio from Proton-experimental branch.

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Quoting: Purple Library GuyWhen you think about it, that's pretty dashed fast movement. NVIDIA down 10%, AMD up 10% (so converging by 20%), in a year and a half. When you consider most people don't even change their graphics cards all that fast, the percentage of Linux card upgrades (around here at least) going with AMD has to be huge to push the figures at that rate.

It's still slower than CPU trend, but I think it reflects the situation well. You can notice for example that RX 5700 XT has become the most used GPU among GOL users:
https://www.gamingonlinux.com/users/statistics#GPUModel-top

Two most used GPUs here are from AMD in fact (RX 5700 XT and RX 580).

AMD only now reached parity with Nvidia in the very high end, so it probably will even accelerate a bit. Once GPU shortages situation will get better I expect RX 6000 series GPUs usage to start growing fast.

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Quoting: TheRiddickNVIDIA has a 60-70% GPU market share on Windows, not sure what it is under linux, at least according to steam survey.

You can check GOL trends: https://www.gamingonlinux.com/index.php?module=statistics&view=trends#GPUVendor-top

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Quoting: TheRiddickNVIDIA just needs to release the bios and re-clocking features for (10,20,30 series) Nouveao and then things can get underway for open source NVIDIA. They do not need to release ALL their drivers in open-source form.

That would be a good first step yes, but they obviously don't want to, so they are a bad Linux citizen and it's a major reason for Linux users to abandon them.

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Quoting: CalinouOne issue with AV1 compared to Bink is the sheer cost of decoding. It's even worse if you have to decode it on the CPU, which is likely as hardware support isn't quite common yet.

I think all modern SoCs and GPUs should support AV1 decoding in hardware. AMD RDNA 2 cards do that already, which possibly means that modern consoles can do that too? I don't think this is going to remain an issue for long, given that AOM which oversees AV1 put a lot of effort into making it ubiquitous.

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