There’s no advantage of the A series unless you plan to use the unique virtual GPU features. Nvidia added a toggle for the 4090 to make use of ECC, which apparently the memory can already do, to turn it into a professional card with less VRAM. It’s otherwise nearly identical to the A series cards, minus the NVLINK to connector two A series cards together.
Doesn’t matter what western companies would do, matters that countries accounting for a billion+ people and second largest economy would use them.
In another year a GPU will use DP 2.1! Breaking News!
Drivers are optional updates and can be disabled or not used? Or are you using Home? I have always used windows professional since XP so maybe home doesn’t offer if, but drivers are listed under advanced/optional updates and I have the system set to NOT download from windows update unless I tell it to, which is generally ok for like Bluetooth drivers from Intel which are basic anyway.
Because FSR sucks ass, and 70-80% of dGPUs are Nvidia, and just as much as that are cards that have DLSS. Which is objectively superior in every way
USB-C can deliver up to 240w… that should be enough to power any laptop.