Firstly AMD and NVidia both have a range of cards with different power levels. Getting a card with 8G that uses the 75W available from the PCIe slot should be possible.

A card that is setup for ML isn’t necessarily going to work well for desktop use. I currently have a NVIDIA card in my workstation setup for ML and it gives 0.2fps on games. I installed the NVIDIA card because the AMD card died and decided to play with ML on it.

I think the best thing to do is to use a separate PC for ML.

https://etbe.coker.com.au/2025/12/22/samsung-8k-tv/ https://etbe.coker.com.au/2025/11/25/edid-and-my-8k-tv/ As a final note on this issue, it seems that “8k TVs” sold in Australia don’t actually do 8k, just scaled up 4k at best. So I now have a few devices that can allegedly output 8K but no way of knowing for sure if they can actually do so.

What parts of the Linux community do you see this in?

The parts I’m in have no Nazis and not much right wing support because right wing nowadays trends Nazi.

Debian has an option to anonymously report packages installed. There’s a question about this at install time and at any time you can install or uninstall the popularity-contest package.

Thanks for the advice, I installed the Debian package “read-edid” and used the get-edid program from it to get the EDID from the monitor. Then I installed the “wxedid” package to display it graphically because the parse-edid program from read-edid didn’t work well. According to wxedid there’s a seletion of 38402160 modes and some 40962160 modes. So it seems that the EDID is the problem.

DSC is designed to be visually lossless not mathematically lossless - you could say the same about JPEG. There are many reports about text being rendered badly with DSC.

MAXSUN Intel Arc B580 Milestone 12G Graphics Card (MS-ARC-B580-MILESTONE-12G

The above is the cheapest card from my local store that has DisplayPort 2.1 (the rest have 1.4). It’s $469 compared to $199 for a RX 6400 or RX 6500. I can probably find somewhere cheaper to buy these things but I’m working on the assumption that the ratios of prices are going to be about the same.

From the Wikipedia page it looks like DSC is needed to do 8K@60Hz on DisplayPort 1.4. I think that is bad for text though.

That card has DisplayPort 1.4 which means that if HDMI doesn’t work then it’s limited to HBR3 which gives 24bpp@31Hz, which is barely adequate.

Also how do you set the bpp rates? The DisplayPort wikipedia page says that 24bpp and 30bpp are supported, but how do I even know which is in use?

For my home workstation running Debian/Bookworm I started running Wayland-Plasma when Xorg mysteriously refused to work after replacing my video card. Wayland just worked and really had no issues for me so while I’m sure I could have solved the X11 problem I didn’t have a real need to.

I also changed my laptop to Wayland-Plasma more recently. A problem I had was in setting up the right modes for external monitors on laptops but that seems to work OK now. Generally things just work.