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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] 20 points 1 day ago (1 children)

It’s much better these days - at least it works fine on arch and fedora. I wouldn’t worry about nvidia on Linux. That said, I’d go AMD for another reason - $. There’s just no reason to spend the kind of money nvidia wants when you can get something just a tad slower for 1/4 the price. AMD makes cards that can drive a huge monitor at high fps.

Bottom line: whatever is fine.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Some things to consider:

  • RTX on AMD sucks, though not sure how RTX on Linux is
  • AMD drivers are FOSS, which means things like Wayland work better sooner (I think Wayland works on Nvidia now?)
  • if you're on a rolling release, you'll occasionally have breakage with Nvidia due to kernel mismatch (happened to me on Arch and openSUSE Tumbleweed); no issues with AMD

In short, AMD will be more seamless on Linux and cheaper for raster performance. Nvidia may be a little annoying, but has higher top end performance.

I go with AMD because I'm done paying more and having a bit worse experience, but I mostly stick to mid tier cards anyway.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

RTX is Nvidia’s brand of gaming GPU’s. It can’t be “on AMD”

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 hours ago

RTX means Ray Tracing Texel eXtreme, and people use it to mean "ray tracing" regardless of who is doing it. AMD can do it, just with crappy performance compared to Nvidia.