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A few weeks ago I put together a gaming system with an RX 5700 XT GPU and X570 motherboard. I've installed both Linux (Pop_OS! 20.04) and Windows 10 on it. Wit
by DoofusOfDeath 6y ago
A few weeks ago I put together a gaming system with an RX 5700 XT GPU and X570 motherboard. I've installed both Linux (Pop_OS! 20.04) and Windows 10 on it.
With Pop_OS! using the open-source amdgpu driver, everything worked beautifully. The only notable downside (which I don't really care about) was not having polished utilities for tweaking the GPU's behavior, and uncertainty about the status of FreeSync.
My experience on Windows 10 has been much worse. There seemed to be a 3-way argument between my monitor, GPU driver, and Windows regarding HDR settings. And unlike on Linux, an apparent bug in AMD's driver causes instability when using HDMI to stream audio to my monitor.
- qchris 6y agoThis is one of the reasons I really enjoy Pop. The GPU support is really at the top of the class for Linux, and it seems like System76 spends a lot of time making sure it stays that way.
- aidenn0 6y agoI could care less about how it works with free-sync HDR gaming, &c. My laptop with 3 year old Intel Pro graphics is fast enough for everything I do on Linux, but my two workstations with an nvidia 1050Ti and A 3 year old Radeon Pro are both unusable for me. If Intel made a 8+ core Xeon with built-in graphics for under $1000 I would buy it over a $300 Ryzen and a $200 discrete GPU just to have stable graphics on Linux because I'm experiencing $500 worth of pain in my graphics not working on a near daily basis.