Have you? I guess I wasn’t here for that. I am wondering why your ‘take’ is the opposite of ppl who participate in the Machine Learning sub, Blender sub, Stable Diffusion etc. etc. - I guess they’re lying or you know more than all of them?

I’ll give you video editing even though the ppl at Puget Systems who spend their time doing benchmarks and comparing gpus for all that software recommend Nvidia cards. But, I digress.

For ML, it’s news to me that AMD cards are just as good or you refer specifically to a 7900 XTX?

https://www.reddit.com/r/MachineLearning/comments/17kqexv/started_machine_learning_what_gpu_discussion/

https://www.reddit.com/r/MachineLearning/comments/qq21s6/d_why_does_amd_do_so_much_less_work_in_ai_than/

https://www.reddit.com/r/MachineLearning/comments/xjnozq/d_whats_the_word_on_amd_gpus_these_days/

Post your reply on the ML sub and if the majority agree with you, then I’ll retract my assertions/assumptions.

Thanks.

Definitely. You speak the truth. Also, AMD cards suck in anything that isn’t gaming - well, maybe an argument can be made for video editing - but, that’s about it. Two areas of gpu use - it’s good at and nothing else. For over $1k - well, I guess Americans can buy them for below that but anywhere else? No.

The XTX is overpriced junk.

Hey, that’s my concern as well… been looking at a gpu purchase - even used - for a while though and on the fence - because of the Nvidia/Wayland thing - really annoying. I want an AMD gpu but I only game occasionally - and the software I want to use - has an Nvidia-edge / advantage to it - ppl typically buy Nvidia gpus for it - Blender, Davinci Resolve - I dunno if other video editing software takes advantage of AMD components but an Nvidia gpu is better for all of that. If Blender support improved with AMD gpus - especially the 7900 series, I’d save up for a 7900 XTX or something.

A used 3090 is $300 cheaper and that’s significant, right?!?

Anyway, the main reason to reply to your post is to show you this:

https://linuxiac.com/fedora-40-to-offer-plasma-6-drops-x11-entirely/

What distro do you use? I have 2 questions - Fedora is aiming to drop support of X - so, your own choice will be Wayland - first, it appears they’ll do it in KDE and then Gnome. Thoughts?

2nd question (topic): do you try to configure your card with any voltage/fan curve programs? I’m just wondering what the options are with that and how well they work.

Nvidia - had Linux alternatives like GWE (Green With Envy), TuxClocker and another program - name escapes me…

GWE still works, apparently - but, I think it requires X/X11 - so, when distros like Fedora abandon X - then??? It won’t work?

BS.

Because a dual monitor setup is pretty common… it sounds like any setup that is more than 1 monitor - when at least one or more monitors are more than 60 hz - then it happens? I dunno if resolution impacts anything - if they have more than one monitor, these days, it seems that at least one is higher than 1080p.

Did you try the latest AMD driver and using free sync?

That’s not a good ‘solution’ - what if someone wants to game on 120 hz variable refresh rate?