GPU Vendors Steer Creative Toolchains

Open‑source creative tools are increasingly shipping built‑in support for proprietary GPU features (for example, DLSS denoisers, vendor ray‑reconstruction, or vendor compute accelerators). That shifts the practical choice set of artists, studios, and hobbyists toward particular hardware, making hardware vendors de facto gatekeepers of creative workflows. — If creative software standardizes vendor features, it concentrates market power in GPU firms, affects competition and interoperability, and raises policy questions about open‑tool neutrality, standards, and export/control regimes.