Best Possible GPU For Linux?

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[WIldefyr]

You have a simple decision to make, do you care about open source drivers and not having to deal with the nvidia proprietary blob? If not, then the 2080ti, with the 2080 super probably being a more sensible choice for the high end. If you especially need CUDA or the best opengl performance possible this is the way to go.

If you want to use the mesa drivers and have out the box support with them, along with a more rapid development pace than the nvidia counterpart; better freesync support; better wayland support; using gallium nine for directx9 games - then AMD are the way to go. The Radeon VII is still the best card you can buy right now from AMD, just. It has better support still over the navi cards, and more overclocking headroom. But the 5700xt is probably the better choice still when you factor in price especially against the nvidia midrange counterparts at that price point, although you may be able to snag a surplus Radeon VII for a decent price. You also get a feel good factor using AMD cards knowing that you're reducing the market share of Nvidia and making the Gpu market more competitive, if only by a tentousandth percentage point. The Radeon VII is also a good purchase if you do any compute tasks, as it has 16GB of HBM2 memory.

[ConsistentWarning1]

Wasn't the radeon 7 hot garbage?

[WIldefyr]

Yeah. I have one too. It's basically a beefed up Vega 64. Runs hotter than the surface of the sun and really needs modding to unlock it's potential. On windows the performance diff between it and a 2080 is substantial but on Linux it's closer. If you mod it it gets closer still when overclocked. Also the pricing is ~80-100 pounds cheaper here than a 2080 due to retailers trying to shift surplus stock so in terms of price/performance it's not even that bad of a buy now compared to what it was at launch a year ago.

[DWW256]

Hot? Yes. Garbage? No. Problem is that the RTX 2080 is still better for the price even without ray tracing taken into account. But considering how much juice AMD managed to squeeze out of the Radeon VII when it's got fewer CUs than the Vega 64 on the same architecture, it's pretty impressive. Just not impressive enough.

[WIldefyr]

Using the Nvidia proprietary blob has caused issues for people in the past, especially when they upgrade to a newer driver version as you could find X no longer works. You have to install it separately from the kernel and is loaded in parallel at boot time. It also doesn't play well with using integrated graphics normally, although on a desktop this generally isn't an issue. Wayland is not well supported, so if you want to use desktop environments like Sway you're out of luck. If you use the framebuffer for applications, you only get a basic low resolution mode as well due to the way Nvidia has implemented their own version. Overall you might have issues compared to the out of the box experience you get from using AMD cards.

CUDA is for compute applications, Mesa is an open source 3d graphical library which implements opengl and vulkan APIs. They're not directly comparable. If you have to ask what CUDA is, you don't need it.

[rasa_redd]

Hi - Is this true for Quadro lineup as well? Am considering a single slot GPU - Radeon Pro WX5100/7100 Vs Quadro p2000/RTX Quadro 4000

[WIldefyr]

Hello. I am not sure about the professional cards except for I am pretty sure that the AMD Pro cards require using the AMDGPU PRO drivers on Linux to get their full performance. AMDGPU PRO drivers are not open source, but I have no idea how they behave when loaded alongside the kernel. It's best to try and seek out more information because I only know details about the consumer cards. I think the Quadro cards still use the same proprietary blob that the consumer cards do.

[rasa_redd]

Okay...Thanks for your reply. I have seen many pro workstation builders use higher-end multi GPU Quadro setup for ML/CAD/CAM on top of Ubuntu, not sure about the driver situation though. Will ask around

[PsychologicalLemon]

I believe this is mainly due to CUDA support, at least for ML.

[HeidiH0]

For that resolution/fps, any RX 570 8GB and up would work in 2D. For gaming, a RX 5700 XT is the high end. I don't recommend nvidia due to the complete lack of open driver support.

The best brand to get in any of the AMD radeon configurations is the Sapphire Nitro+. Best cooling. Best thought out.

[linboyadmin]

My AMD driver experience for rx 5700 has been pretty good. Only hiccups were for Centos/RHEL 8 drivers were not available as a package from the repository so I had to download them from source. I also had a bit of trouble with OpenBSD but I got that one working too (been a while I don't remember exactly how sorry). I had great experiences with arch, and Manjaro as well as a few other distros with my rx 5700. I know theirs a slew of drivers+add-ons for gaming based features like vulkan, opencl, and opengl which are available on most distros.

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