Is there anyone on here that has a recommendation for NVIDIA graphics cards? I haven't used them for a very long time, only AMD, so not really up to date on them.
I need it to run fine on Linux, which I hope has improved now. I will use it for not very demanding games like WoW, and for Machine Learning. I currently have an AMD Radeon RX 5700 GPU.
I was considering a Dual GeForce RTX 4070 OC, since it would fit in my box. I can't have any of the super long ones.
@veronica AFAIK NVIDIA was kind-of the better GPU vendor, if you use the proprietary driver and the features that the proprietary driver considers first class.
Are you reference to ex: Wayland support/Optimus support/etc.?
@veronica So... while there's some famous examples (Linus' NVIDIA hand gesture) about ex: Optimus, the driver quality in general I've seen has been NVIDIA > the rest (except when they chose to not care, like Wayland and Optimus and OpenCL 2).
As for specific cards... they're all kinda priced whacky these days. I run a 4070 and it's neat, although the Super launch messed with the price/perf ratio.
@veronica Talking with @Venn he seems to recommend the RTX 4060 Ti 16GB over the 4070, assuming your workload is more heavily skewed to VRAM usage than performance.
@scottmichaud There was a discount on the 4070, so it's the same price as the 4060. I'll give it a try. I also need Vulkan for the Linux gaming, but the Debian page says the repo driver has Vulkan 1.2 support. If not, I'll get a newer driver off the website.
@veronica I've gotta say, I daily drove my GTX 960 until a few months ago and my god, the sheer amount of issues I had with Wayland.
Graphically glitches, I had issues where opening Chrome and moving it from screen 1 to 2 made Wayland crash. I've had issues where Gnome would completely freeze if I dared to play a video through VDPAU...
But supposedly NVIDIA updated their proprietary drivers to include better support for Wayland, but I can't verify that because I gave up on NVIDIA under Linux.
@SuitedUpDev Yeah, there's a reason why I've been using AMD cards for a decade. Switching away from Linux is not an option. I have enough aggravation with using Windows at work.
I remember multi-screens being a problem with NVIDIA. I recently switched to a double wide single screen setup though, so at least that won't be a problem.
@veronica yeah, for me the quality of the drivers and sheer stubbornness of NVIDIA with their own API's for certain tasks (VDPAU instead of VA-API, EGL streams instead of GBM, just to name 2 examples) are for me the primary reasons to not go with Nvidia for another upgrade cycle.
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