Re: Please help me find a good Debian compatible video card
On Sat, Apr 25, 2020 at 18:58:45 +0500, Alexander V. Makartsev wrote:
> On 25.04.2020 16:20, Jiangsu Kumquat wrote:
> > I want to get a good fast Debian compatible card for 1080p.
> >
> > […]
> >
> > However, I think most or all of those cards won't work that great for
> > Linux because of compatibility issues.
> >
> > Can you recommend a good card for me to use? I play windows games in
> > Debian with wine.
> >
> > I tend to prefer AMD cards, but Nvidia cards are okay I guess as long
> > as they work well with Debian.
>
> I highly recommend Nvidia-based cards, if you don't mind closed-source
> drivers.
> Many (Most?) games with Linux-native ports officially support only
> Nvidia by game developers. I think, this is because of the drivers,
> their quality and stability.
Many games officially recommend the proprietary drivers, though with any
recent AMD-GPUs (as in: supported by AMDGPU instead of radeon) I've never
needed them (some Phoronix benchmarks even seem to indicate, that AMDGPU
often but not always even works better than AMDGPU-PRO).
With NVidia cards the open source noveau driver will not be sufficient for
gaming though.
I can't complain about the AMDGPU driver more than any of the other graphic
drivers. In fact I tend to find AMDGPU easier to handle than the proprietary
NVidia drivers.
As far as I heard, for stability you should not use a GPU that was just
released some months prior, though. The drivers need some time.
> AMD-based card will usually work too, but (as long as I can remember)
> quality of their drivers were something to be desired and drivers for
> Linux are under heavy development, but they are open-source.
If choosing a AMD GPU for gaming I'd recommend to atleast use kernel 5.4 from
backports, as afaik there were some (for gaming) signinficant improvements
after 5.0.
> In case of Proton\WINE, you could get mixed results, because some games
> (via DXVK) will work better with Nvidia and some are better with AMD.
> "Better" here as in "less graphical glitches, more performance and
> stability."
> To play modern games in 1080p 60fps with high graphics settings you
> would want minimum GTX1660 or better with 6Gb VRAM or more.
If you want to achieve the highest of high gaming performance, Nvidia cards
currently offer better (and more expensive) hardware.
If you are happy with (just) decent performance Nvidia vs AMD probably doesn't
matter too much and is mostly game dependent.
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