@tiwake
Nothing esoteric, just Mint. The hd3850 is a definitely a legacy card. Maybe new hardware behaves better but I was making a linux box explicitly to use up old hardware I didn’t trust windows to run on; I was rather surprised when something old didn’t quite work.
I think this sort of brand-X vs brand-Y preferences often comes down to personal experience - people get unlucky with one manufacturer and assume that’s the norm. I’ve found them all to be equally bad. Let me tell you about the troubles I had with a 3dfx Voodoo 3 ;) It overheated a lot, the stock cooler was woeful
@NotAPseudonym
I don’t know what distro you are using, or how long ago exactly this was, but the open source drivers got fantastic over the last two years. Vega was the first new arch launched with day one open source drivers, and now are in mainline kernel as of 4.15. The RX 480 was the first videocard launch with day one open source too (but was not a new arch, so less impressive than vega)
Different distros will treat older hardware differently. Some will strip out the old drivers from the kernel. Heh… just the other day I heard of a distro that strips out all the bulldozer processor fixes from the kernel because it added like a megabyte or two to the compiled kernel.
@tiwake
Eh, I’ve got an old HD3850 I wanted to put in a linux box so it had something. There is no working AMD driver for it, and the FOSS driver wouldn’t (at the time – a year or two ago) let me set the desktop resolution higher than 1024x768
I mean, I’ve had problems getting nVidia drivers to install correctly before, but once I fixed the install scripts they worked fine.
Either way it seems to be a bit of a crapshoot.
Depends. If you’re talking general, yeah, equal.
3D development-wise, NVidia wins EVERY TIME. AMD is up there but needs to get its s**t together with drivers.
Nothing esoteric, just Mint. The hd3850 is a definitely a legacy card. Maybe new hardware behaves better but I was making a linux box explicitly to use up old hardware I didn’t trust windows to run on; I was rather surprised when something old didn’t quite work.
I think this sort of brand-X vs brand-Y preferences often comes down to personal experience - people get unlucky with one manufacturer and assume that’s the norm. I’ve found them all to be equally bad. Let me tell you about the troubles I had with a 3dfx Voodoo 3 ;)
It overheated a lot, the stock cooler was woeful
Big bang for buck on U side though.
AMD cards will usually be the card for people playing on high res at a consistent framerate though.
I don’t know what distro you are using, or how long ago exactly this was, but the open source drivers got fantastic over the last two years. Vega was the first new arch launched with day one open source drivers, and now are in mainline kernel as of 4.15. The RX 480 was the first videocard launch with day one open source too (but was not a new arch, so less impressive than vega)
Different distros will treat older hardware differently. Some will strip out the old drivers from the kernel. Heh… just the other day I heard of a distro that strips out all the bulldozer processor fixes from the kernel because it added like a megabyte or two to the compiled kernel.
Eh, I’ve got an old HD3850 I wanted to put in a linux box so it had something. There is no working AMD driver for it, and the FOSS driver wouldn’t (at the time – a year or two ago) let me set the desktop resolution higher than 1024x768
I mean, I’ve had problems getting nVidia drivers to install correctly before, but once I fixed the install scripts they worked fine.
Either way it seems to be a bit of a crapshoot.
3D development-wise, NVidia wins EVERY TIME. AMD is up there but needs to get its s**t together with drivers.
Agreed. AMD and Nvidia are roughly equal. OP is clearly a fanboy.
AMD isn’t really any worse than Nvidia… especially as of late
I do love these though :3