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Yup it is now, but not on release.
I'm curious, really. Are there any tasks that AMD GPUs really help with when compared to an Nvidia GPU? I'm thinking of getting the 6900XT and was wondering if there was anything that would help me make the decision? I use Linux on my computers.
Traditionally I think nV has been better supported on Linux?
Closed-source drivers but they always "just worked". AMD had/has open-source drivers but they sucked quite a bit. Not sure if that's changed since I was mucking about with Linux a few years ago
Black screens (too soon? )
AMD have some good board partners like Sapphire that rarely make a dodgy card.
Freesync used to be more accessible, but not sure if it is now.
What are you wanting/Planing to do would be my first question. If you require anything that needs Cuda you are going to have to go NV.
The AMD cards are literally plug n play on any distro due to their OSS drivers. Also every kernel update don't break the NV driver thus have no GUI on reboot. (OK not every update but an awful lot of them)
KDE/Gnome ect have less issues like tearing and other glitches with AMD.
Wayland is also far better supported on AMD than NV at the moment.
I will say though that a rolling distro is better for AMD in general.
Also it's a waist of time asking @LtMatt as he's as clueless with Linux as I with Windows
AMD has a far better control panel.
In the last generation they were cost for cost better for rasterisation. the 5700xt was a bargain, especially against the current pricing issues.
I had tonnes of black screen issues with mine so it was sold on, was a beast of a card though.
If I recall correctly, pascal had some kind of compression that isn't present with turing, but it's partly down to a difference in out of the box settings.Image quality. Noticed it every time I switched between Nvidia and AMD. Maybe some tweaks on Nvidia's side could be made to achieve similar result but out of the box AMD nails it IMO. Though last card I checked was 1060 so not sure whether this is sorted now.
Image quality isn't scraping the barrel, I've just got a 3070ti from a 5700xt and the image quality degradation is huge.Thread summary -
NOTHING
Some barrel scraping in this thread
The Delta compression is a nvidia standard at this point so it's still there just isn't advertised just like global illumination.If I recall correctly, pascal had some kind of compression that isn't present with turing, but it's partly down to a difference in out of the box settings.
Tim here from Hardware Unboxed.
Part of my monitor review workflow involves testing monitors on both Nvidia and AMD GPUs. Two separate test systems, both running default settings in their respective control panels.
Currently the Nvidia system has an RTX 3090 and the AMD system an RX 5700 XT
I've never spotted a difference between them in color reproduction. I've measured it using my tools in the desktop, web browsers, games. Taken side by side photos and captures. Never spotted any differences. They produce identical images.
Because this comes up every so often I did look into it to see if it was worth making a video on but the conclusion was there was no difference so it wasn't worth making a video. Since I can't reproduce it I have to assume it's some sort of configuration issue.
EDIT: Back in the day I used to see this occasionally when Nvidia would accidentally default to the wrong RGB range (limited instead of full) but in this particular case apparently that is not the problem so I don't really know how in this case the difference is happening. And those limited/full range issues were a while ago, would have to be several years now
2 pages so far and the mud slinging AMD v Nvidia has not yet happened so going well so far.
Dont forget the OP is on Linux.....