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NVIDIA GeForce vs. AMD Radeon Linux Gaming Performance For August 2023 (www.phoronix.com)
submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/linux_gaming
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In the end the new GeForce RTX 4060 graphics card ended out just slightly above the Radeon RX 7600 in terms of overall performance. The Radeon RX 6000/7000 series on their open-source Linux GPU driver stack continue to perform very competitively with the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 30/40 series and their respective proprietary driver stack. Thanks to the work by AMD, Valve, Red Hat, and other parties on the open-source Radeon Linux driver stack the Linux gaming scene continues to become quite vibrant while NVIDIA also continues providing their first-rate binary Linux driver support on Linux that remains in excellent shape largely due to the shared driver code-base with Windows.

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[–] n3cr0 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Back in 2016, a new version of X11 (shipping with the latest Linux distros) killed my AMD graphics because driver support was dropped and open source drivers were not available for my particular model.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

That's unfortunate. Which model was it out of curiosity? I know they've had open source GPU support for a long time, so it's surprising that one fell through the cracks.

[–] n3cr0 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

AMD Radeon HD 8790M in a Dell Latitude, which seems like a predecessor to AMDs "professional" FireGL/FirePro series.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

8790M

Should be GCN 1.0 so should be supported now, especially if you force the amdgpu kernel driver. Although I'm sure you've long since abandoned it.

If it was a dual/hybrid GPU type setup which was common at the time, that also complicates things but it should be okay now.

[–] n3cr0 3 points 1 year ago

Thanks, I may give that old apart-falling piece a shot.

I was working on integrated Intel graphics most of the time.

[–] Nibodhika 2 points 1 year ago

Yeah, I also remember, my particular model did worked with open source drivers, but it had a shitty performance. That's why 2011 was the last time I bought an AMD GPU, however since today their driver is open I'm seriously considering buying an AMD next, exactly because what happened with AMD back then can happen to NVIDIA now (but not to AMD since their drivers are open and can be community-maintained if they dropped support in the future)