Re: AMD Ryzen 5 3550H + GPU AMD Radeon Vega 8 (+nVidia)
Kanito 73 wrote:
> I am about to buy a laptop (HP) that comes with the processor AMD Ryzen 5 3550H (link below) and the GPU AMD Radeon Vega 8 is integrated. In the description table of the laptop it shows the Vega 8 graphics, but just below it also shows the nVidia GeForce GTX 1050 graphics and I am a bit confused... Does it have both GPUs? Radeon integrated on the Ryzen processor and nVidia on the motherboard? Searching information at Google I found a post in a forum describing that laptops with Ryzen processors have both GPUs and you can switch them but it is a bit "tricky"...
Please link to the HP page, not the processor page.
Ryzen 3 3550H will work quite nicely in Debian Stable; the
integrated Radeon GPU is well-supported. You will want to
install
xserver-xorg-video-amdgpu
and
firmware-amd-graphics
> By the way, at first I am more concerned about the drivers. I?ve read that latest nVidia drivers do not work with the latest linux kernels and it is required to downgrade to a previous kernel so you can install the official nVidia?s driver. Is it real or currently I can install the most fresh AMD.COM driver with no problems? Do the kernel support "nVidia GeForce GTX 1050 graphics" with generic drivers and it will work fine for games or graphics software (design, video, etc)?
AMD and NVidia are different companies, and their drivers are
different. Geting them to play together at the same time is
difficult.
> And related to the Vega 8 (integrated in the processor)... I visited AMD.COM to see details of the driver and I found that it is only available for Windows 10 (at least on the driver?s link). Does the kernel have support for GPU Vega 8 (generic drivers) and work fine for games and graphics software? Do you know about an alternative link or place where to get the official driver for Linux or it does not exist?
Debian has drivers. AMD produces a supported open-source
version, which Debian uses, and a supported proprietary version,
which you can install yourself, though I don't recommend it.
> I am worried because don?t want to buy a USD 1200 laptop that will not work on Linux (Debian 10) due incompatibility or lack of drivers... I hope you can help me or tell me if it is safe to buy the laptop because it will work with the official or generic drivers...
$1200 is quite a lot for a last-generation laptop. I'm pretty
sure HP and Lenovo both have less costly, more performance AMD
laptops.
-dsr-
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