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).
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.
You’re kidding. Recently as well? I’d think it would be
verymore in demand now what with the component shortage.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.