so my old GPU died a few days ago and I was thinking which brand of GPU to get next. AMD or Nvidia? I’ve heard Nvidia drivers are very annoying with Linux but I’ve never had an AMD GPU before. Which would be better? I’ll sometimee switch to Windows to play specific games as well.
AMD is marginally easier but Nvidia is a lot better than people make out. The drivers install with one command in most distros.
Literally Intel or AMD. You may pick Intel dGPU as well.
Intel dGPU
That’s not the best idea. Performances are not even close of what they are on Windows
Also there’s an idle power draw issue which can sometimes be fixed on windows but not on linux
That’s not the best idea. Performances are not even close of what they are on Windows
Personal experience or rumors? First link I found says it’s slightly(4%) better than on windows.
Also there’s an idle power draw issue which can sometimes be fixed on windows but not on linux
Can you share how to fix it? What to write in which registers?
Upd: just set scaling governor to powersave, lol
Your link is for an iGPU
Here for Intel Arc
From January but it hasn’t improved all that much
The fix for power consumption is changing a setting for ASPM in motherboard (if it supports it) and pluging the monitor in the motherboard directly. It worked for me on windows but not on linux (no workaround AFAIK) This means 40W idling instead of 1W
I know which NOT to buy
I’m mostly a newbie to Linux, I’ve been using it as a main gaming rig for several months and only Nobara. I hear often that AMD is hassle free, but I’m using Nvidia and honestly I’ve had no roadblocks. I started with a 2080ti and have since moved to a 4080, no hassles. There is a built in updater and it automatically downloads the newest driver packages. They are always a version or so behind the latest Windows set but meh. Switching on gSync was as simple as toggling VRR for my 144hz monitor.
The one thing that I needed to look up was getting ray tracing running. There was additional stuff I needed to add in Steam (copy paste from the post I found), and then RTX was up and running.
Like I say, I definitely don’t know better than the people saying AMD is a smart choice, but I don’t think people necessarily need to worry that their Nvidia system is a roadblock to switching to Linux.
I am, yes. Are you referring to the disappearing mouse cursor thing, because that’s really annoying, but I hadn’t seen any mention of it being linked to Nvidia. It seemed more Proton related. I tried several fixes I found and none worked. There was a few suggestions to switch to XOrg (?) But when I tried that I was locked at 60fps and couldn’t use VRR.
Anyways, I’d say that’s been my most frustrating issue.
I’m using Intel Xe embedded graphics and they are suprisingly good. This is probably the first embedded intel chip that can run games. It’s basically on par with low-end Nvidia and AMD cards.
