Hello Tek Syndicate forum,
I have been using Ubuntu on my main PC for a little while now and it's been very good for the most part, but I have had one issue: my graphics card.
The card is a 660ti and seems to have serious driver issues on both Windows and Linux. I haven't yet been able to fix it on either platform and since it's getting on in years I was considering an upgrade.
I would like to buy a card that gets on well with Windows and Linux (I like to use Ubuntu if it makes a significant difference), so I thought that the collective knowledge of the community here would be able to help me out.
I'm considering a GTX 970 or a Radeon R9 390. I wouldn't like to go above that budget.
Might someone be able to recommend me a card that plays nicely with Linux?
Many thanks, Fantom.
970 no contest.
The AMD drivers still sucks on linux.
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I have a 970, It works. Easily installed on Ubuntu/Mint not so easy on Fedora 23 but still works great
390 is going to be a better card overall, AMD seems to care about FOSS stuff at least
Otherwise a free-sync display is going to be cheaper.
And you could always just do a KVM passthrough for the GPU, which requires an extra step for nvidia cards, something something Code 43 error
but if you're going to dual boot, 390 probably, the open source GNU/linux drivers apparently work decently enough, and it'll be faster overall under windows.
After running linux on two different machines, one having a Sli set up with two Gtx 660's in it, AMD cards are the way to go with linux. I have found that the Nvidia cards are a little more difficult to set up, it can be done and they can be very stable but it takes a little more work to get them there sometimes. I have found that if you dont install the cards when setting up your machine and getting linyx to boot then set up your OS first, then install your cards the system seems to work better and you dont have as many issues, espceially if your running a SLI config. Linyx really doesnt like running in SLI and that was the only way I could get it to work was by adding the cards one at a time after the machine was already up and running. However, using AMD I didnt have anywhere near the issues, it was almost a plug and play experience with it. I am not running in a crossfire configuration so that did help a lot with setup. Just make sure you update drivers during set up and choose the open source ones.
Wut?
I think you had other issues. What distro were you using?
Thanks very much for the replies.
Not sure if this has helped me decide which one to get, but by the sounds of it they will both work better than my current mess.
Just out of interest, which specific cards have you had success with?
For Ubuntu Gnome I use one gtx 660 with good success and stable framerates at 1080p with proprietary drivers. The Nouveau drivers are really bad and are only good for entering the desktop. My use with old AMD apus have been the opposite with the open source drivers are more stable than proprietary drivers but haven't tried new Radeon hardware.
Comparatively to Windows 10 I see a higher cpu usage of my 5820K @ 4.2 which may be increasing the performance I'm getting.