The Bang For Buck seems steadily improving but I have to wonder since so much of the awesome reported gains are due to drivers, how much that affects those of us on Linux.

When I was doing research for my new card, the situation I found was that they were OK, but improving. If you want to game, though, the recommendation (phoronix, others) was either AMD or nvidia. (I do have to say that AMD's been pretty smooth, all things considered. I just picked the worst weekend to switch with the ncurses switch and the kernel bug.)

IMO, some competition to House AMD or House Nvidia would be quite nice and desirable, especially since those two are really courting AI money these days, not desktops.

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I have the ASROCK Phantom Gaming A770 8GB. It was working fine for me until a week ago when it decided to have a spat with the 4K 50" TV I am using as a monitor... right now the sound is breaking up through the HDMI. I'm not sure if its a software or hardware problem. Before the HDMI sound acted up, I was real happy with it. Granted, I am not a hardcore gamer, but I was enjoying playing games through Steam on Slackware64-current. I can't say the same for my Nvidia Quadro P3000 6GB in my Thinkpad P71 also running Slackware64-current.

Besides the HDMI sound issue, I also have not been able to get the display to put out 4K@60Hz on the A770. After standing on my head, I got Win10 to run at 4K@60Hz... but Slackware is maxing this out at 30Hz... I haven't figured out where to dig into this yet.

I am happy enough that I'm planning on duplicating this hardware at my other house... but I'll likely get the 16GB version.

BK

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Isn't there a long-standing spat between the licensing group for HDMI and linux? https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2024...mi-2-1-driver/

(and yeah, I found out the hard way that modern video cards only have display port or hdmi. Thankfully, there are adapters, but I'd like to upgrade my monitor next. I need something to plug the pi into, as well.)

Well, I can't blame the HDMI sound issue on Linux or the A770 HDMI in particular, as it behaves the same if I use a DP output and convert to HDMI or temporarily boot into Win10. But since I am using a TV as a monitor, I can't get away from using some sort of HDMI.

BK

First, thank you, BuckyKatt for your balanced assessment of your own experiences so far. What caused me to create this thread was at least twofold. 1) I was quite floored to see the truly massive improvements of performance just by tweaking drivers and wanted to understand better how that works in general, then 2) I became curious as to how much of this trickles down to Linux, in general as well as specific to Intel GPUs as Intel seems very committed to competing heavily at the price points I care about, the midrange.

If you like engineering points of view and excellent Q&A that more casual users can likely grasp most of, check this out (it's what triggered me to start this thread) - I'm very fond of the Gamers Nexus Channel -

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qp3BGu3vixk&t=266s