Nah. AMD discreet GPUs are fantastic in Linux these days. You don't need to install a proprietary driver! They just work. It's really nice not having to think about the GPU's drivers or configuration at all.
The only area where AMD's discreet GPUs are lagging behind is AI stuff. You get a lot more performance with Nvidia GPUs for the same price. For gaming, though AMD is the clear winner in the price/performance space.
Of course, Nvidia is still a bit of a pain but it's of their own making. You still need to install their proprietary driver (which IMHO isn't that big a deal) but the real issue is that if you upgrade your driver from say, 550 to 555 you have to rebuild all your CUDA stuff. In theory you shouldn't have to do that but in reality I had to blow away my venv and reinstall everything in order to get torch working again.
Nvidia's GPUs work well on Linux. A friend and I use them and they are fairly problem free. In the past, when I did have some issues (mainly involving freesync), I contacted Nvidia and they fixed them. More specifically, I found that they needed to add sddm to their exclusion list, told them and they added it to the list after a few driver releases. They have also fixed documentation on request too.
riskable|1 year ago
The only area where AMD's discreet GPUs are lagging behind is AI stuff. You get a lot more performance with Nvidia GPUs for the same price. For gaming, though AMD is the clear winner in the price/performance space.
Of course, Nvidia is still a bit of a pain but it's of their own making. You still need to install their proprietary driver (which IMHO isn't that big a deal) but the real issue is that if you upgrade your driver from say, 550 to 555 you have to rebuild all your CUDA stuff. In theory you shouldn't have to do that but in reality I had to blow away my venv and reinstall everything in order to get torch working again.
ryao|1 year ago