AMD has been taking so many W's, they're just giving them away - eviltoast
  • yeehaw@lemmy.ca
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    1 year ago

    Only reason I don’t is because:

    1. nvidia just works better on linux. Well… I heard that’s changed so this may no longer be relevant

    2. I don’t think AMD GPUs work well compared to nVidia with Davinci Resolve

    3. DLSS/Ray Tracing. Even though I never use ray tracing because even the first card with it couldn’t handle it 😅

    • zalgotext@sh.itjust.works
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      1 year ago
      1. nvidia just works better on linux. Well… I heard that’s changed so this may no longer be relevant

      This isn’t and has never been the case. Nvidia and AMD are comparable performance-wise on Linux these days, but since the Nvidia drivers are proprietary, they’re automatically harder to deal with than the open-source AMD drivers. For that reason alone, AMD is easier to use with Linux out of the box, because the Linux kernel has AMD drivers built in. You still have to install userspace drivers in either case, but the open-source AMD userspace drivers have outperformed Nvidia’s proprietary drivers for a long time. It’s only been within the last couple years that Nvidia’s proprietary drivers have reached parity with AMD’s open-source ones.

    • ReakDuck@lemmy.ml
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      1 year ago
      1. I switched to AMD because nvidia worked like dogshit on Linux. Especially when I needed Wayland.

      2. I really dunno

      3. FSR is the replacement. But RTX would be slower on AMD but still good enough for some people.

      • bi_tux@lemmy.world
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        1 year ago

        I’ve had a Nvidia card for a long time (just built my new pc 2 months ago) Wayland worked mostly ok for me the last year. But I’ve used x11 until 2023, so I can’t really sayhow it was.

    • NιƙƙιDιɱҽʂ@lemmy.world
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      1 year ago

      Ray tracing is about to get WAY better with DLSS 3.5…damn it AMD, why can’t you guys have borderline useless, but also really cool features :C

    • milkjug@lemmy.world
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      1 year ago

      #1 - I don’t know, have you tried making VAAPI work on your browsers? Assuming you are using DEs and not running command line servers.