As many already know, nvidia is not the best choice for linux and amd is always recommend when it is brought up, so here id like to ask an equivalent to my graphics card in amd, i know nothing about amd and dont really know where to start honestly.

GPU: gtx 1660 super processor: 11th gen i5-11400 2.60hgz x 6

what would be a similar or better choice from amd in terms of gpu that maybe doesnt cost an arm and a leg? Do nvidia or amd matter in terms of games?

any help would be very appreciated

  • beneeney@lemm.ee
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    1 year ago

    This isn’t super relevant, but I just installed Windows on one of my drives so I could play Tarkov (lol), and oh my god the AMD Adrenalin software. I’m sure there’s some okay features with it, but for some reason it was not saving my fan tuning. So like, during intensive graphics, my PC was just overheating like crazy, and would just randomly shut off multiple times and not turn on for a few minutes. Every time I rebooted, I would have to launch Adrenalin and load my fan tuning configuration. It’s absolutely atrocious that this happens on a default Windows install… like if it happened on Linux I’d accept that I maybe configured something wrong. But installing Windows and AMD drivers should not put my computer at risk of burning my GPU. It’s ridiculous.

    Anyway if anyone else has this issue, you can fix it by turning off fast boot in Windows power settings. Stupid af

    • Kiloee@discuss.tchncs.de
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      1 year ago

      I know of someone who wanted to dualboot for certain games and their windows did exactly that too. At one point their AMD driver managed to uninstall itself somehow. On Linux they never had any problem whatsoever.

      • dlove67@feddit.nl
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        1 year ago

        At one point their AMD driver managed to uninstall itself somehow.

        Yup, that’s windows. AMD tends to release most of their drivers without WHQL certification (think, final drivers, just without Microsoft signing off on them, so they get out faster and (presumably) slightly cheaper).

        Windows sees this and thinks “Hey! This driver doesn’t have our stamp of approval! Let’s help this dumb user out and ‘update’ it to the latest one that does!”

        Unfortunately, this not only puts you on an old version, but now the adrenalin software sees that the driver doesnt match its install and doesn’t let you use those features.

        God I hate windows >.>

        • Kiloee@discuss.tchncs.de
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          1 year ago

          Windows being „helpful“ is the worst. I can’t remember an instance were it actually was helpful. Just some were it managed to break things.