Hi all, I have transitioned my desktop PC to linux and am really liking it so far. I recently bought Oblivion Eemastered, but it seems like it’s too much for my old 1060 6gb to handle. So now I’m looking at what options are available - and would obviously like to get an option that works well with Linux. Since I don’t game as much anymore, I don’t think I can justify spending much more than €300 on it. I haven’t looked at the GPU market for 8 years now, so I don’t know what’s going. What advice do you people have? I have looked at the 4060, the 7600 and the 7600XT, but not sure if they are good value, I’m getting mixed info online.

I appreciate any help and advice you people have.

  • Lembot_0002@lemm.ee
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    linux

    Don’t buy Nvidia. It’ll be a pain in the ass, especially if you use something like Debian testing where kernel is updated quite frequently.

    AMD would be a good choice.

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      Nvidia is barely an inconvenience anymore. I run Bazzite on an old laptop with a GTX 960M, and it’s flawless.

      That said, I agree that AMD is the current best choice.

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      It depends on the use. AMD for gaming, sure. For machine learning I would go with nvidia again. I run it on arch, which updates very often.

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        €300

        I doubt that OP talks about machine learning. And still, Nvidia’s driver is an additional source of problems.

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          you can run local models with 16GB VRAM, but I’m not sure most models will run at all on an AMD card