As many already know, nvidia is not the best choice for linux and amd is always recommend when it is brought up, so here id like to ask an equivalent to my graphics card in amd, i know nothing about amd and dont really know where to start honestly.
GPU: gtx 1660 super processor: 11th gen i5-11400 2.60hgz x 6
what would be a similar or better choice from amd in terms of gpu that maybe doesnt cost an arm and a leg? Do nvidia or amd matter in terms of games?
any help would be very appreciated
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I made the swap from Nvidia to AMD without getting a more powerful card. It just isn’t worth it. Sure, the fact that I can use Wayland and open source drivers is nice, but you don’t gain any extra performance. I would wait until you are ready to upgrade your card and just get and AMD card at that point.
Thats…the point of this post? What is an equivalent or upgrade in your opinion that doesnt cost an arm and a leg?
I don’t understand this community… it’s like discussion can’t be had because people’s opinions of linux get in the way of it somehow.
I don’t have any expertise here or I would offer my thoughts. Just frustrated to see the top comments not being helpful at all.
Alas, that is sadly not just a Linux problem for once, but an internet problem
Its a moderation problem. Same on reddit. An active mod will comment (or outright remove) if a comment is not helpful or outright toxic.
People seem to think that a world without rules will work. I‘m autistic and mindblind and even I understand that while this would work for me (I make my own rules for myself based on morality and religiously adhere to them) it does not work for 90% of the population. Therefore moderation is required.
Your post makes it sound like you want to make a swap from a 1660 to something with similar power on the AMD side, not upgrading. If you want something cheap from AMD, the 6600 would be a decent power bump for not too much.
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How do you know all the places I have heard and seen this information from?
amd is easier to work with on linux, nothing to do with echo chambers
I don’t give a hoot about what nvidias drivers are in fact
All I wanted to know was an equivalent to my card or what an upgrade would be
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hm, ill keep an eye on that one, maybe once it doesnt cost an arm to buy, thank you
This isn’t super relevant, but I just installed Windows on one of my drives so I could play Tarkov (lol), and oh my god the AMD Adrenalin software. I’m sure there’s some okay features with it, but for some reason it was not saving my fan tuning. So like, during intensive graphics, my PC was just overheating like crazy, and would just randomly shut off multiple times and not turn on for a few minutes. Every time I rebooted, I would have to launch Adrenalin and load my fan tuning configuration. It’s absolutely atrocious that this happens on a default Windows install… like if it happened on Linux I’d accept that I maybe configured something wrong. But installing Windows and AMD drivers should not put my computer at risk of burning my GPU. It’s ridiculous.
Anyway if anyone else has this issue, you can fix it by turning off fast boot in Windows power settings. Stupid af
I know of someone who wanted to dualboot for certain games and their windows did exactly that too. At one point their AMD driver managed to uninstall itself somehow. On Linux they never had any problem whatsoever.
Worth it just to not have to deal with random NVIDIA dkms nonsense, honestly, but I’m also strongly religiously motivated that the driver must be open source.
I switched from NVIDIA to AMD for the same reasons. Better compatibility with linux. Worst decision of my life. AMD is still far from NVIDIA in too many ways. Rocm is a total piece of shit and very few programs support it. Gaming performance is meh.
So I had to spend even more money to switch back to a 4070.
The best card you can buy right now for perf/$ ratio is the RTX 4070. You won’t regret that purchase. Or you can continue to delude yourself that AMD gpus are good now (they aren’t, but maybe one day)
lmao sure buddy, let me just quickly shell out over half a grand for an overpriced card, i also never claimed amd is certifiably better, or worse, im simply asking a question here dude, whats your problem?
someones biased methinks
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