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.

  • @uis
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    51 year ago

    Literally Intel or AMD. You may pick Intel dGPU as well.

    • @Imhotep
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      61 year ago

      Intel dGPU

      That’s not the best idea. Performances are not even close of what they are on Windows
      Also there’s an idle power draw issue which can sometimes be fixed on windows but not on linux

      • @uis
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        1 year ago

        That’s not the best idea. Performances are not even close of what they are on Windows

        Personal experience or rumors? First link I found says it’s slightly(4%) better than on windows.

        Also there’s an idle power draw issue which can sometimes be fixed on windows but not on linux

        Can you share how to fix it? What to write in which registers?

        Upd: just set scaling governor to powersave, lol

        • @Imhotep
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          41 year ago

          Your link is for an iGPU

          Here for Intel Arc

          From January but it hasn’t improved all that much

          The fix for power consumption is changing a setting for ASPM in motherboard (if it supports it) and pluging the monitor in the motherboard directly. It worked for me on windows but not on linux (no workaround AFAIK) This means 40W idling instead of 1W

          • @uis
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            11 year ago

            You need CONFIG_PCIEASPM in kernel for ASPM support