I understand that AMD drivers are open source and less of a hassle to work compared to Nvidia. But what else? What model should I look for? I don’t care for raytracing or other dumb gimmicks. Just want to run my map games and cowboy games without lag and crashes. Upscaling compatible is preferred in case I want to play newer slop without buying a new card.

  • bortsampson [he/him, any]@hexbear.netEnglish
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    4 days ago

    I got a Nvidia 12gb 3080 for about 250 used and it’s been pretty solid under X+Kubuntu. It’s like 2 additional steps to get running out of box on most distros. I tried a few different distros but because of the libs I use in my custom vfx/animation pipeline I went back to a Debian based distro. My gaming experience is flawless though I dropped serious money on this box.

    256gb memory 2x2 2tb m2 sdd raid + 2 4tb sata ssds zfs pool
    i9 14k series, 5.8ghz 24 core

    For the first time in my 20 years of using linux I have free memory when I’m not rendering. I’ve always found the best performance gains from hardware in Linux is ram so I maxed out and regret nothing.

    You might be able to run some CUDA stuff on AMD cards using one of two API translation layers. It’s not something I would bank on. If you just want to do diffusion stuff then don’t worry too much about. You can still use Llama3 on AMD. I don’t really do a lot diffusion work though. Mostly use comfyui as a node based processor for my own python vfx code.