A new AMD vs Nvidia decision? - eviltoast

Hey all,

In the market for a GPU, would like to use Bazzite, mostly a Steam user with some SteamVR (rare), and have run into nvidia issues with Bazzite and a 3070 previously.

With the recent news on nVidia’s beta drivers and Plasma’s sync support in beta, I’m newly on the fence about switching to AMD given nvidia having a better performance to cost ratio, the power usage (big one for a compact living room system), and the fact that they have the potential for HDMI2.1 support which AMD doesn’t have a solution to yet.

What are community thoughts? I’ll probably hold out for some reports on the new drivers regardless, but wanted to check in with the hive mind.

Thanks!

  • Rustmilian@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    5 months ago

    Just wait and see how good those drivers are first.

    AMD given nvidia having a better performance to cost ratio

    When the fuck?

    and the fact that they have the potential for HDMI2.1 support which AMD doesn’t have a solution to yet.

    An open source solution exists for Intel, the way it works is just by a translation layer between HDMI & DisplayPort. I imagine AMD will do the same thing.