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Which GPU to choose for Linux gaming? (lemmy.ml)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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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.

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[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

A while back AMD open source their drivers

No, they abandoned their proprietary driver and joined development of existing mesa driver. Basically as if Nvidia joined nouveau.

if you're willing to use proprietary drivers it works, but it has some hiccups.

Pre-Pascal GPUs aren't supported by closed source driver, so your only option there is nouveau.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

He's asking to buy a new one, so old cards not working is not really an issue. But are you sure about the Turing line (i.e. 20 series)? I thought the Maxwell (i.e. 7 series) was the oldest you can use on the proprietary drivers. In fact up until recently I had a 1080 that I used with the proprietary drivers.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Oops. Pre-Pascal? The one after Maxwell.

Also Maxwell AFAIK only 750, 700-780 except 750 are Kepler.