I am looking to add a single-slot board-powered GPU to my Fedora box to handle the host graphics output while passing though my 4090 to a guest VM. And I suppose that AMD would be preferred. There seems to be a lot of negativity swirling around regarding the combination Nvidia and Wayland and Fedora. Although I have made it work, I would prefer to have something a little more painless.
The 4090 is a monster and takes up 3+ slots so I need something that will fit in the top PCIe slot so I can drop the 4090 down to the second slot and still have some airflow.
Ideally I need would like a low power single slot AMD gpu to drive dual 1440p monitors at a reasonable frame rate using open source drivers. I won’t be doing any fast-paced games.
Would a Radeon Pro work in this scenario? If not, does anyone have other suggestions?
Alas, that looks like a dual slot card which puts it out of the running. But that got me on a search of Intel and I found the intel Arc Pro A40 which looks promising. It may be a little underpowered compared to the 6400s, but has other nice features. I have no idea how much they are asking for it, though, because although the card was “launched” in June, I can’t find a single one for sale on the web. Pure unobtainium. Note to Intel – you may want to “launch” your products within 6 months of offering them for sale. Geez.
I have been looking (and asking) around in search of the A60. Even asked via work to our supplier, who came back with “ buggered if we knew”.
I would like me an A60, looked like a solid upgrade for my video-editing needs.
It’s pretty much a halo product at this point. They probably have done a limited production run for testing and evaluation for OEMs and selected customers. Some kind of early access to what could be an alternative in 5 years or so. You want drivers and software integration to be at least on par with AMD. Gamers are more forgiving in that department
I’d certainly like a single/dual slot card with a good feature set that is positioned between iGPU and full high-powered Gaming/AI cards.
Even “newer” stuff like 6400XT are still double slot…I’m pretty sure mankind can do single slot without 8k rpm radial fans.
And we should move on to more suitable form factors at some point…I’d like to see MCIO/PCIe riser connecting to the front of the case, cooling GPUs with case fans where HDDs/SSDs used to be. There sadly isn’t much innovation in the market for that. Only really form factor shift is in datacenter GPUs.
That’s Navi 23…which is approx. like a 6500XT? But for 200 certainly a good deal for single slot as long as you can get the fan under control (if you care).
$200 would certainly be a good deal. Most shops seem to be selling them for over $500. I did find them for sale for $86 at fancsonline.com but 1) I have never heard of them 2) their web shop seems a bit sketchy and 3) they quote 15-21 days shipping.
I used a Radeon WX2100 which is basically equivalent to an RX 550, the little advantage over the RX 550 is that it has more output ports. (2 mini-dp, 1 hdmi).
buggered if we knew”.