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What GPU for ~€300 should I get? (lemm.ee)
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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.

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[–] Lembot_0002@lemm.ee 8 points 1 day ago (2 children)

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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.

[–] eager_eagle@lemmy.world 6 points 1 day ago (1 children)

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.

[–] Lembot_0002@lemm.ee 13 points 1 day ago (1 children)

€300

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

[–] eager_eagle@lemmy.world -2 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

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

[–] Telorand@reddthat.com 6 points 1 day ago (1 children)

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.

[–] IEatDaGoat@lemm.ee 0 points 17 hours ago

These latest drivers had been annoying tf outta me though. Random screen glitches while using 3080 for weeks.