- Avid Amoeba ( @avidamoeba@lemmy.ca ) 71•2 months ago
For newer GPUs from the Turing, Ampere, Ada Lovelace, or Hopper architectures, NVIDIA recommends switching to the open-source GPU kernel modules.
So 20-series onwards.
- loops ( @loops@beehaw.org ) English18•2 months ago
My ol’ 1070 doesn’t make the cut hey… ;-;
- Irremarkable ( @Irremarkable@fedia.io ) 31•2 months ago
Maybe it’s just because I’m older and more jaded, but that really feels like the last truly good era for GPUs.
Those 10 series cards had a ton of staying power, and the 480/580 were such damn good value cards.
- Telorand ( @Telorand@reddthat.com ) 33•2 months ago
It’s more that back then was a better time for price to performance value. The 3000 and 4000 series cards were basically linear upgrades in terms of price to performance.
It’s an indicator that there haven’t been major innovations in the GPU space, besides perhaps the addition of the AI and Raytracing stuff, if you want to count those as upgrades.
- Chaotic Entropy ( @ChaoticEntropy@feddit.uk ) English13•2 months ago
It feels like the crypto mining goldrush really changed the way GPU manufacturers view the market.
- GolfNovemberUniform ( @GolfNovemberUniform@lemmy.ml ) 12•2 months ago
RTX 3050 (which got a new 6 gb version less than a year ago) is similar to 1070 Ti in terms of performance and 1080s are of course even better. Definitely a ton of staying power, even in 2024.
- Norah - She/They ( @princessnorah@lemmy.blahaj.zone ) English4•2 months ago
I bought a secondhand 1080 a couple years ago when the crypto bubble burst finally and it’s still serving my needs just fine. It could play Baldur’s Gate 3 just fine on release last year, which was the last “new” game I played on it. Seems like it’ll still be good for a few years to come so yeah.
- fuckwit_mcbumcrumble ( @fuckwit_mcbumcrumble@lemmy.dbzer0.com ) English8•2 months ago
That was mostly because the 20 series was so bad. Expensive, didn’t perform lightyears better to justify the price, raytracing wasn’t used in any games (until recently).
The 30 series was supposed to be more of a return to form, then covid + mining ruined things.
- Dreyns ( @Dreyns@lemmy.ml ) 2•2 months ago
I got a 2060 super and i must say i’m very happy, i do 3d stuff so the ray tracing was plenty useful and despite it getting a bit it fairs pretty great in most games and the price was okay at the time (500 €still a bit high since it was during the bitcoin mining madness =-=")
- Avid Amoeba ( @avidamoeba@lemmy.ca ) 4•2 months ago
Still have a beautifully running 1070. 👌
- loops ( @loops@beehaw.org ) English3•2 months ago
Comrade. (☞ ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)☞
- Avid Amoeba ( @avidamoeba@lemmy.ca ) 3•2 months ago
I think it works but the performance might not be ideal. Keep on the proprietary module.
- GolfNovemberUniform ( @GolfNovemberUniform@lemmy.ml ) 2•2 months ago
Yes. Everything older is unsupported in terms of the new Linux stuff anymore. Planned obsolescence yk?
- Avid Amoeba ( @avidamoeba@lemmy.ca ) 7•2 months ago
Well their proprietary driver works fine for older hardware.
- gpstarman ( @gpstarman@lemmy.today ) 24•2 months ago
Does this mean upcoming distros can have the drivers inbuilt? NVIDIA Cards working out of the box? I’m Out of the Loop.
- biscuitswalrus ( @biscuitswalrus@aussie.zone ) 6•2 months ago
Well, what I really wonder is if because the kernel can include it, if this will make an install more agnostic. Like literally pull my disk out of a gaming nvidia machine, and plug it into my AMD machine with full working graphics. If so this is good for me since I use a usb-c nvme ssd for my os to boot from on my work and home machines and laptops for when I’m not worrying. All three currently have nvidia cards and this works ok. I have some games to chill and take a break. My works core OS for work MDM etc unmodified. I like it that way.
I realise this is not a terribly useful case, but I could see it for graphically optimised VM migrations too not that I have many. Less work in transitioning gives greater flexibility.
- gpstarman ( @gpstarman@lemmy.today ) 2•2 months ago
this works ok
People said that the new 555 Nvidia drivers works good.
- jokro ( @jokro@feddit.org ) English1•2 months ago
Like literally pull my disk out of a gaming nvidia machine, and plug it into my AMD machine with full working graphics.
This should work already, i switched from nvidia to amd this year by swapping the cards and removing the nvidia drivers some time later.
I guess it’s because the drivers only apply to their specific hardware, so no problems having amd and nvidia drivers present at the same time.
- duckduck ( @duckduck@lemmy.zip ) 22•2 months ago
nvidia transitions fully? that’s all i need to hear, good job nvidia 🏳️⚧️🏳️⚧️🏳️⚧️🏳️⚧️🏳️⚧️
- Chemical Wonka ( @chemicalwonka@discuss.tchncs.de ) English20•2 months ago
I stand with AMD
- sgibson5150 ( @sgibson5150@slrpnk.net ) 11•2 months ago
Forgive the stupid question, but what does this mean, exactly? Does it mean Nvidia support on par with that for AMD? Will this enable a release of Bazzite that supports Steam Gaming Mode for Nvidia cards?
- prole ( @prole@beehaw.org ) English2•2 months ago
Does it mean Nvidia support on par with that for AMD?
I’m probably not the right person to answer this, but my immediate thought was no. I believe AMD allows for open source drivers on Linux, which this specifically states Nvidia won’t be doing.
- redxef ( @redxef@feddit.de ) 6•2 months ago
Cries in 1080 ti