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Which GPU to choose for Linux gaming? (lemmy.ml)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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so my old GPU died a few days ago and I was thinking which brand of GPU to get next. AMD or Nvidia? I've heard Nvidia drivers are very annoying with Linux but I've never had an AMD GPU before. Which would be better? I'll sometimee switch to Windows to play specific games as well.

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Intel dGPU

That's not the best idea. Performances are not even close of what they are on Windows
Also there's an idle power draw issue which can sometimes be fixed on windows but not on linux

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

That's not the best idea. Performances are not even close of what they are on Windows

Personal experience or rumors? First link I found says it's slightly(4%) better than on windows.

Also there's an idle power draw issue which can sometimes be fixed on windows but not on linux

Can you share how to fix it? What to write in which registers?

Upd: just set scaling governor to powersave, lol

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Your link is for an iGPU

Here for Intel Arc

From January but it hasn't improved all that much

The fix for power consumption is changing a setting for ASPM in motherboard (if it supports it) and pluging the monitor in the motherboard directly. It worked for me on windows but not on linux (no workaround AFAIK) This means 40W idling instead of 1W

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

You need CONFIG_PCIEASPM in kernel for ASPM support