@nanoUFO Honestly, I am considering picking one up for Starfield, depending on how they perform there. I'm sure their Linux support isn't incredible, but Nvidia also has a lot of issues on Linux and I've been running my 1060 for years now.
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Have you considered upgrading to an eBay 1080ti? Still a bulletproof card depending on your application, unless you're trying to get that sweet sweet AV1 encoding.
I don't think realtime AV1 encoding is really going to be necessary for quite awhile tbh. A Ryzen i3 should be able to hit around 10fps on software AV1 encoders and get like 5x the quality. Otherwise x264 on medium is blazing fast and way better than what hardware h.265 will get you.
I really want an energy efficient variant next time around. I currently have a 1050Ti and when i upgrade i sort of want something that's relatively better but with less wattage if possible.
I agree. I feel like the low wattage cards have become thing of the past. Everything is so power hungry now.
OneAPI also looks quite juicy... from someone currently suffering under ROCm and in refusal to give the green goblin any business.
If you can bear the terrible drivers, consider a used nvidia card. They can be decent deals for gaming as well.
This is so the way. Using a used Tesla P40 in a Linux server for AI stuff. Card goes hard.
What happened to the drivers for the old cards to make them bad?
Crashes, broken adaptive sync, general display problems and, most importantly, stutter. I'm running a version from about a year ago on my 1070 Ti because every time I try to update, some game starts to stutter and I get to use DDU and try multiple versions until I find one that doesn't have that problem.
About 2-3 weeks ago, an update also worsened LLM performance by a lot on 30 and 40 series cards. There were a lot of reports on Reddit, not sure if they fixed it yet.
My default advice for any issue on r/techsupport that could be nvidia driver related has been to DDU and install a version from 3-6 months ago and that has worked shockingly well.
That reminds me, have the r/techsupport mods migrated to lemmy yet? Their explanation of the whole reddit issue was great, so I don't think they'll want to stay on there.
Anyways, back to the topic. Since OP also mentioned ROCm, I'm assuming he uses Linux for that. The nvidia drivers on linux are pretty much unusable because of all the glitches and instabilities they cause. Nvidia is a giant meme in the linux community because of this.
can you use it for Cuda applications?
No. Their may exist some workarounds to make it work but directly it won't work.
I've got a Vega 64 in my HTPC, and it can run Diablo 4 okay at 4k, but would like to upgrade. It's hard to find a comparison, but does anyone know how an Arc A750/770 compares to a Vega 64?
My main concern is if they will keep up the support, I don't want to go buy something that looses driver support in a year or two. I feel like I have seen too much of that from various companies, though i can't think of too many examples from intel other than Optane.
I don't know about windows, but on linux it's only NVIDIA gpu that can loose driver support.
I welcome any additional competition in the graphics card market.
AMD and NVIDIA have gotten entirely too comfortable.
I gave the A770 a try a few months ago and ended up returning it after a few days. I'd be open to trying it again down the road.
Did you give it a spin in Linux? That's the main use case that sort of has my interest.
Yep. Tried it on Trisquel to see if it would work with the libre kernel which it didn't. Next I tried it on Garuda and on several games I couldn't even get them to launch and on others it performed at par or worse than my RX 590.
Ah, that's unfortunate! Thanks for sharing your experience. I've really enjoyed the maturity of AMD on Linux these days with a few cards.
To play devil's advocate this was a few months ago so perhaps Mesa has improved since then with the A770.
shhh prices are going to rise!
It was extremely close between the 6700xt and the A770 for me when I was picking my GPU for my virtualized windows gaming PC. The only reason I went with the 6700xt was because I knew it'd work. I think if Intel sticks this out and actually releases some new cards, they could easily become a decent competitor to AMD and Nvidia for cards the majority of people actually buy. I know in myself part of the reason I didn't pick Intel this time around was fear that they'd just give up and leave me with an abandoned card.