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0 pointsthrowatdem123113d ago0 comments

If you want a GPU that has comparable performance on Linux to Windows- you want AMD. NVIDIA drivers are notoriously bad. Many of my games run better on Linux with the open source AMd drivers. (CachyOS rolling rolling rolling).

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Fabricio203d ago

Sadly if you want a GPU with good AI performance you gotta go with NVIDIA. It might sound crazy but as a 7900XTX owner.. My 12GB 3060 on my linux server outperformed the 7900XTX by 40%. The 3060 only has half the vram of the AMD card. Proprietary drivers under Arch Linux.

On top of the significantly worse software on AMD's side (literally didn't work on windows in particular - so the "performs as good on both systems" is a nonstarter, some GGUF library dependency just doesn't work/exist under AMD on windows). Had me running the AMD card on windows under WSL (not a problem with nvidia though, that ran just fine on windows-side directly).

Aaaand also the other AMD bugs, such as the pink squares display corruption that has been an active issue for my GPU in particular (7900XTX) for over a year, maybe approaching two at this point, with no fix in sight from the AMD team (barely and ack at all - not on a single patch notes, just a bunch of reddit discussion). Really regret spending so much on an AMD gpu.

dekhn3d ago

I have no interest in moving to AMD for video cards right now- the network effect of NVIDIA is just too high, and their peak performance is insane. I also haven't noticed any major issues with nvidia drivers, unless you mean specifically running Windows games on Linux machines with nvidia cards, where I have zero experience.

throwatdem12311OP3d ago

Network effect for graphics cards? Literally what? Your friends don’t care what GPU you run my guy and there is not much benefit of having brand loyalty to a company like Nvidia that gives absolutely zero fucks about people that aren’t their enterprise customers buying GPUs by the thousands. If there’s any “network effect” for gaming GPUs on Linux it’s in favor of AMD because of the immense amount of work Valve has been putting in to make it work well for their steam* hardware.

Nvidia’s drivers are trash for gaming on Linux and the majority of your “compatibility and framerate issues” are because you’re using a sub-par product for the job.

tryauuum2d ago

> Nvidia that gives absolutely zero fucks about people that aren’t their enterprise customers buying GPUs by the thousands.

for the context, nvidia gives zero fucks about people who are buying their GPUs by thousands as well.

dekhn3d ago

I am also an enterprise customer that buys GPUs by the thousands, you can see a bit more about my work here: https://www.gene.com/media/press-releases/15010/2023-11-21/g... and https://blogs.nvidia.com/blog/roche-ai-factories-omniverse/ and have worked with nvidia since the mid-2000s on high performance computing for scientific research (in addition to having nvidia graphics cards since the Riva TNT, running both Windows and Linux). So having a blackwell graphics card I can evalute with linux and windows, both for ML training, inference, and gaming, is a huge network effect.

throwatdem12311OP3d ago

We’re talking about your gaming PC here. Nobody is forcing you to ONLY buy Nvidia graphics for your personal gaming rig when you ALSO have a purpose built AI rig. Nvidia just removed “gaming” as a segment from their financial reports. They give zero fucks. This absurd blind loyalty serves no purpose.

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Fabricio203d ago

dekhn3d ago

throwatdem12311OP3d ago

Nvidia’s drivers are trash for gaming on Linux and the majority of your “compatibility and framerate issues” are because you’re using a sub-par product for the job.

tryauuum2d ago

> Nvidia that gives absolutely zero fucks about people that aren’t their enterprise customers buying GPUs by the thousands.

for the context, nvidia gives zero fucks about people who are buying their GPUs by thousands as well.

dekhn3d ago

throwatdem12311OP3d ago

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