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The GPU price hike is here and you should avoid any Nvidia card with more than 8 GB VRAM, if you value your bank balance (www.pcgamer.com)
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[-] alakey@piefed.social 11 points 2 days ago

Also is on life support drivers, does not support compute shaders and is not supported by modern Linux at all.

[-] kugmo@sh.itjust.works 16 points 2 days ago

Life support drivers yes, not supported by modern Linux is a blatant lie.

[-] alakey@piefed.social 5 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

How so? Nvidia dropped support, so as it stands you are at the mercy of the distro maintainers to keep the old drivers in the repos.

[-] kugmo@sh.itjust.works 4 points 1 day ago

3rd party repos or packaging it yourself. On Arch you can just update the pkgbuild yourself (or any other distro really).

[-] cyberpunk007@lemmy.ca 4 points 2 days ago

while fair, the crappy open source drivers are still under development as far as I'm aware.

[-] alakey@piefed.social 6 points 2 days ago

As far as I could tell Neuveu drivers do not support older cards at all. It does load into the environment, but crashes as soon as there's any rendering trying to happen.

[-] cyberpunk007@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 day ago

I just tried to find out and even they don't seem to know but the general answer seems to be yes?

"Does my card work with Nouveau?

The most likely answer for your particular Nvidia graphics card is: yes for 2D and maybe for 3D. You can find the details in Status on the front page.

If you have a laptop with dual Intel/Nvidia graphics, the Nvidia card may or may not be usable. The card may be selectable via vgaswitcheroo or a BIOS option, you should check those first. If neither works, you are probably out of luck. See the above link for Nvidia Optimus.

If you want a definite answer, try it. "

Then the status is just this lol:

"Current Status

OpenGL is supported on all GPUs.
Vulkan is supported on all Kepler and later GPUs.
Video decoding acceleration supported on most pre-Maxwell cards; see VideoAcceleration for details.
Automatic reclocking available for Turing and newer GPUs through GSP firmware.
Support for manual performance level selection (also known as "reclocking") on GM10x Maxwell, Kepler and Tesla G94-GT218 GPUs. Available in /sys/kernel/debug/dri/0/pstate. There is little hope of reclocking becoming available for GM20x, GP10x and GV100 as firmware now needs to be signed by NVIDIA to have the necessary access.

"

[-] PriorityMotif@lemmy.world 1 points 2 days ago

Then buy a used 3060 for $250-$300

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