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I've had the opposite experience under Linux. My old nvidia 570's drivers went into severe bitrot. Basic stuff like screensavers and desktops broke badly, and
by hedora 3y ago
I've had the opposite experience under Linux.
My old nvidia 570's drivers went into severe bitrot. Basic stuff like screensavers and desktops broke badly, and games were flaky. The card is still more than powerful enough for what I used it for.
I switched to AMD, with open source drivers. I get windows-level performance on AAA (and indie) games in steam, and zero compatibility issues with the rest of the Linux ecosystem.
- fiddlerwoaroof 3y agoYeah, I’ve always bought AMD for this reason since some really bad experiences with Nvidia cards.
- amlib 3y agoAMD GPU support in linux is a bit of a flip flop. Some generations seem to get a lot of love and work really damn well (sometimes with better and broader support than the windows drivers) like RDNA2 and most Polaris cards. Others such as Vega and specially now RDNA3 are a shitshow with a lot of things just broken.
- tyfon 3y agoI ran vega 64 in linux for 3-4 years, it was really nice. It also worked without bugs with proton, the 3060 I have now gives me a lot of artifacts like incorrect lightning and even X crashes once in a while. I'm considering switching back to an AMD card due to this.
- gcoakes 3y agoI used a Vega64 for years and just bought a 6000 series. Both work great on my machines. I'm typically running the bleeding edge kernels though, so that might explain it a bit. I would think Ubuntu is probably the most supported if you opt for the OEM kernel.
- aseipp 3y agoIt really depends on the card. I have an old RDNA workstation card in my server and the driver was a real crapshoot. I eventually started delaying updates to newer kernel releases (which would fix other bugs!) because there would be regressions of various kinds. Graphics under Linux is still a bit painful after all these years. At least Nvidia finally open sourced their driver too, I guess. And Intel is still open source. But it still sucks a bit I think unless you do research.
- izacus 3y agoWhy are you talking about screensavers in a CUDA thread though? You can't compute on a fancy screensaver animation, you need a working CUDA driver that nVidia provides for that.
- kbenson 3y agoLikely because this subsection of the thread seems more focused on drivers in general and less on CUDA, if the other replies are anything to go by.