A decade ago it used to be opposite. How far Nvidia has fallen.
When you want to do GPU processing for AI, crypto, video editing, etc, though, this gets reversed.
Getting Cuda working on Linux with an nvidia card is relatively painless. Just a few well-documented commands, worked on the first try.
I could never get AMD’s equivalent to work on Linux, though, and it led me down a horrible rabbit-hole of trying a dozen different driver versions from a dozen different places, all with their own unique and quirky ways of installing… And it still never did work.
ROCM is pretty simple. It’s just no where near as robust and supported as Cuda.
For me cuda was painful. I did the well documented commands, rebooted and had no output on my laptop screen anymore. Probably a complication due to Optimus, but still…
For me it was deadsimple once i tried setting it up with nix, granted you need to learn a little about nix so maybe that cancels it out a bit lol.
Intel drivers:
I recall having fairly trouble free run with GF 1060 on Fedora on a desktop.
However having an AMD cpu and nvidia dgpu in a laptop is a fuckin’ nightmare. Probably only Broadcom and Mediatek are more random when it comes to drivers. Good thing is that you can plop out a wifi card and get an Intel one for €20.
Edit: I also run Amd 6800 and 9070 in 2 desktops and that just work. I never had to care for drivers.
Unless if you have the random HP laptop where no Intel card works.
(I have this laptop, there’s 2 ax200s that HP ships, one with Intel one with amd. No it’s not CNVIO)
I had that on some lenovo many many years ago… also lovely.
Luckily an EliteBook I got maybe 2 years ago allowed me to fix a bug in a wifi driver that mediatek introduced. There were workarounds, but fuck that. Ax200 fixed it.
AMD should make drivers for nVidia hardware. 🤷♂️
They’d probably work better than Nvidia’s
15 years ago this was true lol
3 years ago this was true. Not sure if nvidia works properly with wayland even now, though at least the trend is different now
It has no issues, NVIDIA just works these days (if you use a distro where you can choose to use proprietary drivers for it during installation)
I mean yeah, but that’s a little like saying “computers all have WiFi capabilities these days, as long as you only buy motherboards with built in WiFi.” It’s a pretty large limitation to place on the user’s choice. Especially when Linux users like to meme about certain distros being better or worse.
You might not remember ATI atrocity.
And then you try a libre distro and realize you still need firmware with amd lol.
i wish i could go to an amd card but i just upgraded my video card (geforce rtx 4060 ti) like 3 months before i decided to move to linux :(
Jo, no problem! Just use the proprietary drivers and vulcan, cuda etc. Just works
Especially with a recent card, like a 4060. Problematic are only the cards which are considered legacy by nvidia (I think older than the GTX 900 series), because they do not update their drivers for newer kernels. In these cases resorting to nouveau (in-kernel driver for nvidia cards) is your best bet, but you will not use the card’s full potential.
I did the same (different card but similar situation) and I was able to sell my Nvidia card for similar to what I paid for it. Not sure if that would be the case these days though.
I feel ya. I built pure AMD explicitly for linux gaming early last year… and then proceeded to not install linux for like 6 months 😅 had a 2080 ti for years before that
Intel be like that skeleton at the bottom underwater
this has not been my experience with AMD drivers…
nvidia drivers are all dependant on who is implementing them
I only ever have problems if the kernel is updated without the drivers, because I somehow updated before the video driver was included
this is my experience for over 10 years now on Arch
For those cases I love endeavourOS, as it configures exactly these (in my opinion PITA) cases automatically “correctly”
Yeah, have it setup in nix to just work and haven’t had issues in years. When I ran arch (btw) I was routinely recovering my system from bad updates
I just use the dkms driver package
So which one is better?
The one you own is better cause no one can afford to choose anymore.
Any 1080ti homies here?
Best I can do is TI-86.
I’ve got a 1060 sitting in my server, forever waiting for an upgrade (It’ll inherit the 3060ti in my desktop whenever that gets an upgrade)
The graphics card in my laptop lets me play Megabonk and Dead Cells and Shotgun King. Do I need anything more than that?
1080 but no ti.
Had a 2080 Ti until recently. I’ve only paid once for a new GPU in my life - a 1070 when we were gonna get millionaires on crypto mining. Gave it to a friend’s kid when I found that cheap 2080 Ti.
I didn’t really have any issues in Fedora. I enabled the NPM repo in the settings then installed them. Easier than on Windows.
PopOS has been running great for months on my 3070, but I’m about to swap it for a 5060TI and I’m a bit worried.
Nothing to worry about 😇 drivers that work great with 3070 will work great with a 5060
