Cheap AMD card for Linux?

Ice Tea · 9 Aug 2022 at 10:47

Is there such a thing that's worth looking at?

Ice Tea · 9 Aug 2022 at 12:31

FatRakoon said:
Not sure that I get what you mean?

I have absolutely no idea about AMD cards in regards to linux and wondered if there was a budget card worth considering or if some of card architectures were regularly dropped into legacy?

Ice Tea · 11 Aug 2022 at 07:18

Hades said:
NVidia have, until recently, not been very friendly to the open source community.

Yeah i was reading recently on Phoronix that Nvidia is going open source in a hybrid fashion as it will only be modern cards and parts of the code will stay proprietary, Not sure where this will leave the future of Nouveau drivers as they are already broken with Wayland and doing bat **** crazy unstable things.

Ice Tea · 14 Aug 2022 at 09:18

Are AMD cards playing nice with Wayland as a lot of the top distro's all seem to be talking about moving over to that as the default?

Rainmaker:

if you only care about rendering the desktop and playing back x264 flawlessly, then any cheap 2nd hand AMD card will suffice (even down to RX280 or earlier). If you want x265 or VP9, you're going to need anything after Vega and you'll pay a lot more. For games? Dunno, I don't play them.

Thanks

Ice Tea · 14 Aug 2022 at 12:10

pete910 said:
Regards Wayland , Still AMD best bet for now. Having said that not tried a 30xx series.

Thanks.

Ice Tea · 10 Oct 2023 at 10:21

Intel Arc A310 for $110, they have to be joking.