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Honestly, this is such a nice silver lining, my 3080 that’s like 6 years old is still working fine even on newer titles since no one is making/ buying better cards (or cards with more VRAM) in large quantities.
I can’t remember having a GPU this old that was still relevant, my old 780ti was so limited by its 3gb vram.
Just wait until driver support is ended by nvidia. I have two P40 which are powerful and work well but nvidia just ended support (for compute) but I think the point still stands. Maybe it will be better with the new oss drivers
Isn't there a useable open source driver these days?
Noveau drivers are useful in a "render my desktop on my privacy-centric distro" kind of way, not in the "I'd like to play games released after the 2000s and actually do serious modelling work" kind of way. At least for now.
I think NVK is the default implimentation these days
I haven't paid much attention on the matter, but how are the official open source drivers for the 2000 series and newer?
Functional. NVIDIA didn't truly "open source" their drivers to anywhere near the same degree as AMD (AFAIK they didn't give much for the community to work with), so you're forced to use the proprietary ones in most cases. That might change over time, though.
Unfortunately Linux open source driver for Nvidia is extremely underdeveloped. If you want Linux machine with super long term support, go either with AMD or Intel
Perhaps that will change as a result of NVIDIA's shift. Then again, optimism has yet to pay off in my lifetime.
Just use the last supported driver then
Well that works until all frameworks like pytorch and co drop support for the compute level because the cuda libs drop them. Good luck compiling everything from source yourself.
I use Linux for fun
Amen
I kinda feel the same way about my 6950xt, granted i haven't bought many modern titles recently and still have a backlog, but it honestly just seems to be chugging along nicely paired with a 5800X3D. Nvidia 3000 series/amd 6000 series seems like one of those generations that aged nicely, only issue was how inflated the pricing was. I ended up snatching the 6950xt around the time the 7000 series came out for like 600 bucks, but i never would have bought it for the 1000+ pricetag it had for the longest time.
At least with the RTX3000s, the prices were only jacked up by scalpers. Then NVIDIA became the scalper.
I used to have 1060 3GB and it worked well. I did an upgrade 2 years ago for a mini pc that has 6650m with 8GB and so far I do not feel the need to upgrade for at least next 5 years. Of course this doesn't mean that I play modern titles on ultra, but everything I play runs smooth as butter.
I think even 1060 6GB is fine today. Not flashy and powerful, but should be able to run many games just fine. One also could seek 1080Ti used and be set for a very long time with that one. I see many people reporting their 1080Ti is still running everything fine and no fuss. 9 years old card :)
1080Ti gang here, I'm not playing all the cool new shit but ARC Raiders, for instance, is absolutely no problem and in general I don't really feel a need to upgrade. Until the steam machine arrives, that is 😄
Gabe Cube isn't going to be that much faster unless you build your own steam machine with stronger GPU
I know it's not a big upgrade, but I need something much smaller in my office space and the wife needs a new PC so I'll pass my monstrous case on to her. Thanks for mansplaining tho!