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AMD vs Nvidia (lemmy.world)
submitted 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) by user_naa@lemmy.world to c/linux@lemmy.ml

I am going to buy a new graphics card and can't choose between Nvidia and AMD. I know that Nvidia has bad reputation in Linux community but how really it works? And I heard recently their drivers got better. What can you recommend?

P. S. I don't want any proprietary drivers (so I am talking about Nouveau or any other FOSS Nvidia driver if it exists)

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I am AMD and use Blender just fine. What do you mean?

[-] webghost0101@sopuli.xyz 3 points 1 day ago

Cuda and optix are anecdotally three times faster at rendering than any amd solution.

That doesn’t mean amd doesn’t perform well though, its personal preference on how much that time saving is worth it.

AMD-HIP works just great for me.

[-] HumanPenguin@feddit.uk 1 points 1 day ago

Blender supports cuda for much of its gpu work. It will work with amd. And there are projects allowing gpu rendering via amd. But they are (and have been for a while) a long way behind the cuda stuff.

For major rendering projects nvidia is still the fastest set up to use.

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