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Is it worth the trouble with an Nvidia card? (lemmy.cafe)

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

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Hey folks. I’m a new dad which means my gaming time is at a premium, but I am going through a big cleanse of the enshittification era of the internet right now, and Windows 11 is kinda giving me bad vibes.

Last time I tried to run Linux it was ok and worked the majority of the time, but ray tracing and a few games caused some issues. I was also using game pass which of course doesn’t work on Linux, so I dropped back to windows.

How is Nvidia life these days? I’ve got a 3080 and an AMD 9800X3D so it should be fine for most games I imagine.

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

Don't get a 50 series card. If you must upgrade I'd go for a second hand 40xx. But honestly with a 3080 you're perfectly fine for now if you're not married to ultra 4k 144hz.

I'm on a 3070 and it does fine for most games. That said I don't play a lot of AAA titles but the ones I do play fine at medium or high settings mostly.

Also I used to dual boot, but since about a year I moved to 100% Linux and have only had the occasional issue. Mint with Nvidia send l seems to work pretty well these days.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I mean, if you can get a 50 series card at MSRP then do, the scalping sucks but otherwise it's still a slight perf/€ win over 40 series.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago

Even at msrp it isn’t worth it right now. They’re having issues with the melting cables still, the drivers not working properly, and things like you might just not get the correct amount of components on your chip die. This series has been abysmal. With the amd 9070 coming out I’d still wait and just look at those to see if they take this gift nvidia is giving them and run with it.