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Nvidia 980 Ti 6GB, or AMD RX Vega 64 8GB? (kbin.social)

submitted 1 year ago by Phobos@kbin.social to c/linux_gaming@kbin.social

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I have been offered a choice between these two cards, and I'm not sure which one will perform better in linux at this point. If it was Windows I would just go with the Nvidia and call it a day, but the driver situation on Linux has me leaning towards AMD. Is the AMD the right choice?

I'm using the Garuda distro.

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[–] tal@kbin.social 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The performance between the two -- VRAM aside -- is apparently significantly closer on Windows than in Linux, which I assume why OP is asking.

https://www.videocardbenchmark.net/compare/3218vs3808/GeForce-GTX-980-Ti-vs-Radeon-RX-Vega-64

The AMD card tends to slightly pull ahead on Windows too, but it's a much closer thing there.

[–] Atemu@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

In the meta-review at launch of the V64, it was 95-98% of a 1080:

https://www.3dcenter.org/artikel/launch-analyse-amd-radeon-rx-vega/launch-analyse-amd-radeon-rx-vega-seite-2 (German but the table is self-explanatory)

980 ti was about 7% behind a 1070 at its launch; over 20% behind a 1080: https://www.3dcenter.org/artikel/launch-analyse-nvidia-geforce-gtx-1070/launch-analyse-nvidia-geforce-gtx-1070-seite-2

I'm leaning towards declaring PassMark's GPU bench not being a very representative benchmark.

[–] Kata1yst@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago

A very safe assumption.