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I bought an AMD GPU specifically for use with my Linux workstation and haven't regretted it. Perhaps I simply had bad luck with specific nVidia cards, but the A
by zeta0134 6y ago
I bought an AMD GPU specifically for use with my Linux workstation and haven't regretted it. Perhaps I simply had bad luck with specific nVidia cards, but the AMD driver is stable in a way the nVidia driver simply never was, especially w/ respect to GPU accelerated desktop environments and screen capture utilities. The only change I made was to switch Arch over to the LTS kernel, as the upstream kernel in Arch isn't quite as battle hardened, and did occasionally require a rollback. That's not something that's likely to affect any other distro though, it's a side effect of Arch's bleeding edge nature.
Anecdotal data and all that. I'm on a Radeon VII, pretty darn solid, will probably continue to choose AMD cards in the future. Wish the Windows driver were a bit more stable, and it's... frankly weird to be saying that in comparison to the Linux driver for the same card.
- posguy 6y agoI have had a similar experience with my laptop that uses a Ryzen 5 Pro 2500U, it would crash once every couple days under Windows, but no such issue crops up using mainline drivers on Debian.
- Symmetry 6y agoYeah, from what I understand the difference in driver stability between Nvidia and AMD on Linux is exactly the reverse of their relationship on Windows.
- encom 6y ago>Wish the Windows driver were a bit more stable I have an AMD 5700XT in my Windows games machine, and the driver is an absolute travesty. And looking over the installed files is a horror show. Qt5WebEngineCore.dll and avcodec-58.dll, because a browser engine and ffmpeg are essential in a device driver. And why does FacebookClient.exe exist? Fuck knows.
- qayxc 6y agoIt's even worse with NVIDIA - they ship an entire custom NodeJS with their drivers. Also don't forget that these are user-space apps that are simply bundled with the driver but not necessarily part of it. Qt5WebEngineCore.dll is most likely used by the UI portion of the driver (settings dialogs, radeon software etc.), same with the ffmpeg dll and the facebook client. NVIDIA does the exact same btw. - see [1] [1] https://www.ghacks.net/2020/03/13/nv-updater-nvidia-driver-updater-0-4-0-1-released-to-customize-nvidia-driver-installations/ https://www.ghacks.net/2020/03/13/nv-updater-nvidia-driver-u...
- encom 6y agoI think that crap is only included if you install "Geforce Experience". Nvidia parted off their garbage into an optional component, while AMD forces you to install it. For anyone using Nvidia on Windows, here's a useful tool to carve out most of the trash from the driver prior to installing. https://www.techpowerup.com/download/techpowerup-nvcleanstall/ https://www.techpowerup.com/download/techpowerup-nvcleanstal...
- tracker1 6y agoStill nothing compared to typical RGB control software, that on Windows only runs while actively logged in (stops when locking the screen/desktop) instead of a tight/light service that uses the "last known" config that updates from the desktop/gui. Let alone painfully missing tecnical docs or support for Linux.
- wj 6y agoI have the same card and have issues with locking up and crashing in both Windows and Linux. It looks like the kernel in Ubuntu 20.10 might have a fix for some of issues.
- bavell 6y agoDoes AMD make you sign in to open their locally-installed driver utility? Nvidia seems to have thought it was a good idea and went ahead and did that a year or so ago...
- encom 6y agoNo, and neither does Nvidia. "Geforce Experience" is not the driver. It's just bloatware nobody needs.