On 3/29/24 3:36 PM, Evan Leibovitch via talk wrote:

Hi all.

Although I really don't want to, I need to upgrade the graphics card on my main desktop.

I currently have an AMD RX 6600 but some of the applications I want to work with, notably in AI and content creation, either don't work well on AMD cards or not at all.

For decades I've stuck to AMD cards -- partly because of their better track record with Linux drivers, but also because of my affinity for ATI in Markham. Alas, though, I must get something from Team Green now. Leaning towards an RTX 3060 12GB, that should be enough for me.

If I'd seen this a week earlier I would have proposed a trade -- I just took out an MSI GeForce RTX 2060 to replace it with an AMD RX 6600.

I can't help with your main question, unfortunately, but I can tell you why I chucked my Nvida card, which is that there seems to be a nasty interaction bug between the nonproprietary nouveau drivers and the current iteration of mesa, which leads to all manner of complications, mostly in never coming out of suspend but sometimes even not booting the console.  (In each case using ssh to get in to the computer found everything else running perfectly.)  This all happened under current Arch Linux.

Most likely you aren't interested in the nouveau drivers.  I don't know how extensive the interactive bug with mesa is, but you might check that out before you take the leap.  I have never used the nvidia proprietary drivers so I have no views about whether they have problems.

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