Hello everyone. Black Friday is approaching, and I’d like to upgrade my GPU.

I currently have an GTX 1070, running it on Arch Linux, but I’ve never run into an issue of any kind. Graphics are what I expect. Frame rates dont show any noticeable drop or stutter. Still, whenever I see GPUs being discussed, I always see people say AMD GPUs are better on Linux because their drivers are open source as opposed to Nvidia’s, which are proprietary.

The only other area I can see your specific GPU being an issue is with video editing, which I do occasionally do. I dont remember the exact issue, but with the free version of DaVinci Resolve, apparently some video codex are suppored depending on your GPU? (Someone correct me on that because I’m pretty sure I got something wrong there.)

I don’t have a specific GPU in mind, but if there’s a general consensus that AMD GPUs are better on Linux, I would definitely pay a little more for better compatibility on my system.

Any input is appreciated. Thank you in advance!!!

  • JDGumby@alien.topBEnglish
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    10 months ago

    Bearing in mind that should you be running an LTS release, you’ll still have to add a PPA to run the very latest variant of Mesa.

    Other than Mint (which ships with Mesa 23.0.4, even with the “Edge” ISO release which has kernel 6.2), is there any other distro whose current version is using a 6.x kernel that isn’t running the required Mesa version?

    • BulletDust@alien.topBEnglish
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      10 months ago

      The problem regarding LTS releases is the fact that unless you add something like the kisak PPA, you’re going to be lagging somewhat in relation to Mesa releases compared to rolling release distro’s; making the argument that gaming bug fixes are resolved faster running AMD hardware under Linux somewhat moot.

      Generally, under LTS releases, Mesa updates are made available every point release. Should an updated version of Mesa containing gaming bugfixes be released right ‘after’ a point release, There’s every chance you won’t see that updated version of Mesa until the next point release - Which would be around 6 months later than the updated version of Mesa was released.

      It’s for this reason that Nvidia’s proprietary blob is actually well suited to LTS releases. Furthermore, LTS releases are the only Linux desktop operating systems ‘officially’ supported by Steam.

      Once again, I’m just waiting for the downvotes because I didn’t join the AMD echo chamber.

      • the_abortionat0r@alien.topBEnglish
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        10 months ago

        Once again, I’m just waiting for the downvotes because I didn’t join the AMD echo chamber.

        No the downvotes are because of you creating a fictitious reality in order to make a point. If you need an unrealistic requirement to be portrayed as a fact of Linux in order for your argument to even exist then its a bad faith argument.

        • BulletDust@alien.topBEnglish
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          10 months ago

          No the downvotes are because of you creating a fictitious reality in order to make a point. If you need an unrealistic requirement to be portrayed as a fact of Linux in order for your argument to even exist then its a bad faith argument.

          To quote my post above:

          The problem regarding LTS releases is the fact that unless you add something like the kisak PPA, you’re going to be lagging somewhat in relation to Mesa releases compared to rolling release distro’s; making the argument that gaming bug fixes are resolved faster running AMD hardware under Linux somewhat moot.

          Generally, under LTS releases, Mesa updates are made available every point release. Should an updated version of Mesa containing gaming bugfixes be released right ‘after’ a point release, There’s every chance you won’t see that updated version of Mesa until the next point release - Which would be around 6 months later than the updated version of Mesa was released.

          There’s no bad faith argument there.