I finally gave up my Nvidia 2070 Super and rejoined Team red with a 9070 XT. And it’s like this is the way everything was always meant to be.
HDR works without breaking font rendering. Sleep states just work. No more random border flickering in fullscreen or borderless windows. And the fans never even spin up.
I did have to unwind a couple Nvidia workarounds to swap over successfully (like /etc/environment needed cleaning up for sddm-greeter-qt to not core dump).
No ragrets.
No regerts.
Team red 4lyfe (again).
Switched from a 1080ti myself in March to a 9070xt. Got it during a sale with a free 800 watt PSU and Crimson Desert.
I don’t game that much anymore but edit video on the same machine.
Only issue is I am using the same machine for FrigateNVR right now and it was a pain to get the Gasket-dkms driver and new kernel/drivers going as I was time constrained. I don’t recommend changing a gpu when you are leaving for 3 weeks and need your cameras working.
This adds complexity but I’m running frigate on an intel laptop with the cpu providing detection. It’s just as capable as the google coral I was running before
The plan is to shift it all to my TrueNAS. I’ve got a VM setup so I can pass the Google Coral and an ARC A310 through.
I’m in the process of shifting all my data from my currently full pool to a new one and then will be repurposing a couple 4TB drives as striped mirrors with a pair of 240GB D3-S4510’s mirrored for metadata to act as the storage point. I’m currently running four 1080p cameras, a 4K ptz, and a dual 4K 180 degree stitched view camera with six 4K fixed cameras to be added along with a 4K PTZ and another 180 dual 4K. The ARC 310 will be used mainly for camera stream processing and a couple cameras object recognition the Coral will handle the rest.
Then my main desktop will be free for everything else.
Nobody’s going to post it? Really? It was my understanding doing so in a conversation like this one was mandatory.
Sorry. I’m a child. I’ll see myself out.Currently running a RTX2070 but don’t really feel like I need more performance, probably going to keep using it until it dies and then get an RX9060XT or what ever is the equivalent at the time. Or if it gets to a point where even the cheapest cards become a pretty significant upgrade I will probably go for it.
Been planning the same thing, have the same card, but now is just not the time financially with the AI-price of everything
As A long time Linux user I couldn’t agree more. My son, who likes to game with me, was handing down his ‘old’ nvidia cards such as a 3070, so I put up with years of nvidia’s crap. A couple of months ago I ripped out his ‘old’ 3070 and put in a new XFX brand AMD RX 7600. Works out of the box and plenty fast for HD resolutions. Why did I waste years of my life fighting with nvidia nonsense on Linux??
Nice karma farming post! :D
Myself I have ofc had some issues with my RTX 4090, since I also do AI stuff Nvidia is the way to go. But I want to give other users the nuance that if you get a gaming distro (cachy, garuda, pika, nobara) you will meet little resistance with at least newer cards.
Of course AMD will give you a better put of the box experience, at a more affordable price.
@Botzo Have fun with the new card.
I never liked Nvidia. Their software felt overbearing and intrusive even in the early days. And their hardware lacked elegance, they just always threw more power at their chips. I’m not suprised by anything they’ve done, from the complete pivot to AI chips to the complete lack of reasonable Linux support to this very day. It’s not that AMD are angels, but Nvidia was always very clearly an asshole company, laser focused on short term profits over anything else.
I have an NVidia 3070 RTX and never had any single problems. I really never had problems with NVidia at all on Ubuntu, ever. I always stuck with LTS versions though.
I’ve bought various cards from GTX 970 up to my current RTX 3090 and never had any real issues. So I recommended an RTX 5060 to my wife’s friend’s kid (we’ve helped him build and upgrade a Linux computer over the last years) because it seemed like the best value he could get for his modest savings. After installing the card for him I spent hours trying to get it working… In the end I got it to boot and use the GPU in games, but the computer still hangs indefinitely if he tries to shut it down, so every time he has to hold the power button to turn it off. Since then I’ve got some suggestions for things to try from the Bazzite discord, so I hope it’ll be possible to fix.
Same same :3
The only time I had issues with my 3070 was when I was messing around with drivers, and fucked up some stuff, but that was easy enough to fix (and my fault for messing it up in the first place lol)
Truly happy for you!
I was originally multi booting LTS Ubuntu to meet reqs for work with Arch for gaming and everything except sleep worked pretty well. The Wayland cutover sucked for years as they fixed one thing and broke another. HDR never worked correctly.
Well with Ubuntu LTS I never had HDR as a feature to begin with lol. So I didn’t have to worry about it.
Should be available OOTB as of 26.04 … At least with kde!
Yeah but I’m switching to Debian. So I still won’t have it for a couple years I think. 🥲
Available as of 13/Trixie last year (gnome 48/kde 6)!
Oh nice!!! Thanks for letting me know! :)
I assume it cost you an arm and a leg?
Yes and no. Objectively $650 plus tax is a lot of money. I intended to go with the non XT for $80 less. And I probably would have been pleased with a 9060 or 9070 GRE.
But I paid $540 plus tax for the 2700 super just before the pandemic. So with inflation, this felt like the same kind of hit. And I wasn’t planning to replace the rest of the underpinnings either. 3900x, 64gb ddr4 3600, x570 motherboard).
I really just wanted shit to work (again). The frame rates are a bonus. It feels like coming home. And this coming from someone who remembers gaming on Linux before proton.
I paid like $800+ for the 2080 Super just after the pandemic started.
Now also on the 9070 XT and 9950X3D and 64 GB of DDR5. Dream combos. Plays anything. On Linux.
I’ve got an 2080super I been damn near trying to give away.
But sticking with nvidia will cost you your sanity. Besides, if switching doesn’t have to be super expensive if you get a used card.
Fair enough. I wonder how many of my problems are caused by Nvidia. I also have suspend problems, occasional crashes that dmesg isn’t helping me identify, and many games don’t play.
