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Is there anything similar but from AMD? As a Linux user I'd rather not buy nVidia.

by justaj 7y ago

philjohn 7y ago
Something like the R5 230 or RX 460, several generations old, but will do.
posix_me_less 7y ago
Unfortunately the market with low power AMD cards is non-existent. Maybe some older HD model if you can find it second-hand, but those can't do 4K@60Hz. There is no low powered (=passive cooling) card based on the recent AMD chips. I wanted GPU with only passive cooling for my Xeon machine, had to buy lowend NVIDIA. Hopefully Navi at the end of the year will finally change this.
- Zekio 7y ago
  What are you talking about? you can get RX550s that are passive or even one of the rare RX560s which are passively cooled
  - croon 7y ago
    I can't find a single passively cooled RX550, albeit some are passive up to a certain temperature, which is likely acceptable for the usecase assuming it works as advertised.
    - Zekio 7y ago
      worst case scenario you can always buy an aftermarket passive cooler and swap the cooler yourself
pedrocr 7y ago
I've been defining specs for a new NAS/home server and was just waiting for this release to finish it. I have that issue and my conclusion has been that you either get an old Nvidia for ~30-40$ (e.g., GT710) or all the AMD options I've seen are ~100$. That generation of card seems to be well supported[1] by the nouveau open-source drivers at least but I'd much prefer AMD as well. For NAS and server applications it would be nice if someone did a motherboard like the Asus X370Pro with an old GPU soldered on. That way you could have simple boot graphics without this hassle and only add a good GPU if you actually needed it for something. But I guess that's too much of a niche to bother with just like low-end graphics cards. Edit: Found a few AMD R5 230 for the same 30-40$ range. Assuming the drivers are also good that seems like a good option. Edit2: Researching some more the R7 240 has a similar price and is probably the first that is already supported by the new amdgpu drivers so may be a better bet. [1] NVE0 here: https://nouveau.freedesktop.org/wiki/FeatureMatrix/ https://nouveau.freedesktop.org/wiki/FeatureMatrix/ Seems like everything but power-management is fully supported. Need to do some more digging but if the incomplete power-management means it just doesn't throttle up as much that's fine for the application.
opencl 7y ago
Passively cooled R5 230s are old but readily available. The newest passively cooled AMD card I'm aware of is the XFX RX460 but it's hard to find. The RX550 is low power enough to not need a PSU connector but for some reason nobody has made a passively cooled version.

Is there anything similar but from AMD? As a Linux user I'd rather not buy nVidia.

by justaj 7y ago

Is there anything similar but from AMD? As a Linux user I'd rather not buy nVidia.

philjohn 7y ago

Something like the R5 230 or RX 460, several generations old, but will do.

posix_me_less 7y ago

Unfortunately the market with low power AMD cards is non-existent. Maybe some older HD model if you can find it second-hand, but those can't do 4K@60Hz. There is no low powered (=passive cooling) card based on the recent AMD chips. I wanted GPU with only passive cooling for my Xeon machine, had to buy lowend NVIDIA. Hopefully Navi at the end of the year will finally change this.

Zekio 7y ago
What are you talking about? you can get RX550s that are passive or even one of the rare RX560s which are passively cooled
- croon 7y ago
  I can't find a single passively cooled RX550, albeit some are passive up to a certain temperature, which is likely acceptable for the usecase assuming it works as advertised.
  - Zekio 7y ago
    worst case scenario you can always buy an aftermarket passive cooler and swap the cooler yourself

pedrocr 7y ago

I've been defining specs for a new NAS/home server and was just waiting for this release to finish it. I have that issue and my conclusion has been that you either get an old Nvidia for ~30-40$ (e.g., GT710) or all the AMD options I've seen are ~100$. That generation of card seems to be well supported[1] by the nouveau open-source drivers at least but I'd much prefer AMD as well. For NAS and server applications it would be nice if someone did a motherboard like the Asus X370Pro with an old GPU soldered on. That way you could have simple boot graphics without this hassle and only add a good GPU if you actually needed it for something. But I guess that's too much of a niche to bother with just like low-end graphics cards. Edit: Found a few AMD R5 230 for the same 30-40$ range. Assuming the drivers are also good that seems like a good option. Edit2: Researching some more the R7 240 has a similar price and is probably the first that is already supported by the new amdgpu drivers so may be a better bet. [1] NVE0 here: https://nouveau.freedesktop.org/wiki/FeatureMatrix/ https://nouveau.freedesktop.org/wiki/FeatureMatrix/ Seems like everything but power-management is fully supported. Need to do some more digging but if the incomplete power-management means it just doesn't throttle up as much that's fine for the application.

opencl 7y ago

Passively cooled R5 230s are old but readily available. The newest passively cooled AMD card I'm aware of is the XFX RX460 but it's hard to find. The RX550 is low power enough to not need a PSU connector but for some reason nobody has made a passively cooled version.