Light AMD GPU recommendations

Operating Systems & Open Source Linux
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I’m looking for recommendations on a GPU for my machine.

I’m running Linux, so AMD would be better. I’d like it to be plug and play

Basically, I want a very light cheap graphics card with 2 display ports at least, single slot, which I can use to drive my two 3440x1440 & 1920X1080 displays. Basically desktop + Youtube only. Efficient would be good

This would be the first GPU so that I can pass through the second, powerful one for gaming

I really only wanted to have a single GPU, but it looks like this is the only way (I want to stream games to a different room for my kids using moonlight while I work etc).

I’m currently doing this with an AMD RV620, but I am having all sorts of issues. Distorted display if the resolutions are high, no audio, moonlight wont launch

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I’m doing this with the iGPU on my 7950X, so I imagine you can just grab whichever GPU is cheapest and it’ll do YouTube on 2x4k just fine. RX6400 for example. It’s got 4k on all ports, and is available as a single slot half-height card.

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6500 XT is the cheapest new card you can get with a warranty that is not total garbage. It will do what you need.

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Do you ever game locally? I’ve current VFIO my NVIDIA, but it requires a reboot and then after that offloading the render

I’m actually thinking of something second hand…Cheaper the better…I am still looking to update my other GPU soon

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If you want 60hz on 4k resolutions you need something from the rx480 generation of GPUs, probably a 460 will do
460 will be gcn 4.0 and all the other models under it will be 1.0 rebrands

You might could go older but I think 460 would be great
With the right passive dvi to HDMI adapter you can get HDMI 2.0 out of the dvi port as well

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It would be good if it was just PCIe powered too

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There are some that are, what country do you live in

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UK. I’ve been looking at the recommendations on ebay

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Try adding 896 to search
This is a little much for a rx460

This might be a bit better granted search results filled by lowest shipping and I’m. A us resident

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Radeon Pro WX 2100 is single slot and goes for about 30 pounds on eBay. Single slot, low profile, no extra power input, three DisplayPorts, Polaris generation.

There are also an array of “Embedded” low-power cards that AMD released such as the E9173, E9260, and E9390 which AMD shows as using the amdgpu 5.15.0 kernel driver. The E9390 is effectively a WX 5100 (limited to 75W slot power) on standard drivers.

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Does it play nice on linux? normal amdgpu drivers? Or the pro ones

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Good price just unsure of how these ‘pro’ ones behave on linux

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As far as I’m aware Polaris in general works very well under linux

Do both your monitors have display port?

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They both have display port

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Then you’ll be all set, go for it

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Hmmm…Still trying to read into the drivers on linux…They have their own separate part closed source on linux, apparently

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You can just use the open source one

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And it will work well with pro ?

I’ve had days of messing around with drivers and GPUs lol…I want the pain to stop

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Yeah it’s fine

So you have kernel driver
The driver from AMD and you can specify whether or not to use the pro version and all the pro version does enable use with certain programs for hw acceleration

It’ll be fine

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Much appreciated, I’ve gone for it.

Hopefully this will make my life easier. I may look at undervolting to take the power down