Been using AMD gpus for years due to their superb Linux support. Would like to play around with AI image generation completely offline so a Nvidia gpu is kinda must. Besides that I do some gaming as well.
Currently I have AMD RX 6750 XT and am considering replacing it with a RTX 5060 TI with 16 GB vram. How well does Nvidia gpus work in modern Linux systems. I’m running Tumbleweed with KDE plasma on X11.
Other hardware is Ryzen 7 7700X and an Asrock B650 PG Lightning motherboard.
Edit: Been using InvokeAI so far but cpu only is super slow.
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RTX 4080 Ti is working fine. I am doing the machine learning on it, and sometimes I play games. Linux Mint and proprietary driver.
I have a 5080 and it worked well with some issues:
Finding a distro that would boot from USB was a headache. Bazzite and Mint wouldn’t load, but Fedora did. HDR worked in videos, but not in games. I didn’t experience any performance issues with GPU heavy games, though I had to fudge around with Proton versions to get Armored Core 6 to work.
Valve Index worked with beat saber, but I could not mirror the VR to my TV using steam link. The index had poor frame rates for playing non-VR games in theatre mode.
OpenRGB still doesn’t have support to change the RGB on my card (Gigabyte Aorus).
Finding a distro that would boot from USB was a headache
Using
nomodeseton the kernel boot command line usually helps with booting if it’s a graphics problem.
There are problems with GPUs with more than 2 fans since the NVIDIA drivers only support 2 fan controllers. Usually the third fan is controlled by vendor software and many of those vendors do not have Linux software. What you end up with is a GPU where only 2 fans spin.
Other than that I have yet to run into any real problems.
Good to know. Thanks.
I have a 3070 and for the most part things work fine. Sleep and wake dont really work properly for me though.
Same with my GeForce RTX 3060 on Ubuntu. But I’m not trying to run any AI tools, OP.
Nvidia has recently announced the end of of support for the GTX 1000 line, including the seemingly popular GTX 1080. So unless you want to switch to nouveau, you cannot use them anymore.
This is all I really know about the topic though, I’m an AMD GPU user myself.
How is this even remotely relevant to the question posted?
They pulled support for a GPU still widely used. If you buy an NVIDIA GPU today you will most likely face the same problem a few years down the line.
That gpu generation is few moths shy of being 10 years old so it’s unlikely 50 series would end support in a few years.
My secondary PC has a GPU in it that is more than 16 years old. Works as if it was brand new. I’d be pretty pissed if the support for any part of that PC just ended for no other reason that a billion dollar company trying to safe a few bucks 🤷
True that. That’s why I originally chose amd components for this computer. They’ll be supported until the sun explodes (give or take).
i have a 1650 and as long as you have that or newer the open source drivers should just work. iirc the proprietary drivers are a little better right now but that probably wont stay for long with how close they are.
Last I checked 50 series is just a lot less reliable than a 9070/XT in Linux. They should mostly work on anything with a new enough kernel but I think gamersnexus found like a 9070xt beating a 5090 in some games which is just silly, but mostly it was okay at least, and if you’re ray tracing then it’s still better even with inconsistencies. I would still probably suggest a 9070 at that price point tho.
How good is 9070/XT running image generation with stable diffusion based workloads?
ComfyUI works with a 7900xt. I imagine it works better with a 9070xt.
Every post you make about any issue with anything Linux assumes you have an Nvidia GPU and also assumes that is the root of the problem by default. So, the problems are usually very well documented.
Let’s see what I’ve posted here… *checks post history*. This one post. Don’t know what’s up with you but at least you’re not being helpful.
most things work, some niche things like hw video acceleration and gamescope don’t
