Yes and no. Objectively $650 plus tax is a lot of money. I intended to go with the non XT for $80 less. And I probably would have been pleased with a 9060 or 9070 GRE.

But I paid $540 plus tax for the 2700 super just before the pandemic. So with inflation, this felt like the same kind of hit. And I wasn't planning to replace the rest of the underpinnings either. 3900x, 64gb ddr4 3600, x570 motherboard).

I really just wanted shit to work (again). The frame rates are a bonus. It feels like coming home. And this coming from someone who remembers gaming on Linux before proton.

But sticking with nvidia will cost you your sanity. Besides, switching doesn’t have to be super expensive if you get a used card.

Similar boat, for me its cause of video editing and cuda, but how I hardly do that, and my reason before was because nvidia actually made Linux drivers while ATI (yeah, the last time I used a non-nvidia card in Linux) was a pain in my ass.

Things have changed just a little since they were ATI 🤣

Truly happy for you!

I was originally multi booting LTS Ubuntu to meet reqs for work with Arch for gaming and everything except sleep worked pretty well. The Wayland cutover sucked for years as they fixed one thing and broke another. HDR never worked correctly.

Same same :3

The only time I had issues with my 3070 was when I was messing around with drivers, and fucked up some stuff, but that was easy enough to fix (and my fault for messing it up in the first place lol)

I've bought various cards from GTX 970 up to my current RTX 3090 and never had any real issues. So I recommended an RTX 5060 to my wife's friend's kid (we've helped him build and upgrade a Linux computer over the last years) because it seemed like the best value he could get for his modest savings. After installing the card for him I spent hours trying to get it working... In the end I got it to boot and use the GPU in games, but the computer still hangs indefinitely if he tries to shut it down, so every time he has to hold the power button to turn it off. Since then I've got some suggestions for things to try from the Bazzite discord, so I hope it'll be possible to fix.

Until I saw this, I assumed it must be a problem with newer Nvidia cards because I almost never had a problem with my ancient GTS450 on Mint and LMDE.

And that "almost" is because of the one time something got added to the kernel that didn't play nice with the OEM driver. Later kernels didn't have the same problem.

All that said, I'm team AMD again and am likely to stay that way. The old computer was built during a very brief window about 15 years ago where it wasn't uncool to buy Intel CPUs and NVidia graphics and, I assume, AMD were having problems.

The PC before that was AMD/ATI, hence "again" now.

I have had problems in the past with them, but like a decade or more ago.

Most of the games you lose access are not worth imo. LoL, fortnite, valorant. I do miss Apex

Look up the games you have or the games you're worried about on Proton DB:

https://www.protondb.com/

Then you can see whether you will lose anything with the switch.

Yes, you should.

-Sincerely, a Ryzen 5 7600X and Radeon 7700XT user running Linux Mint with a KDE Plasma DE.

If you're not playing the fancy games with all the ray tracing, and you aren't playing at 4k, the 2070 is still just fine in terms of power. I definitely didn't need the 9070 XT. I would have been just fine with a 9060xt, 9070gre or 9070. I did want to bump to 12 or 16gb of memory. And I scored a good enough deal combined with credit card points to jump all the way to the 9070xt. This one will follow me for another 6 years at least unless some paradigm shift happens.

I will say that you'll enjoy more frames at a lower power draw if you don't crank up your settings on the new cards.

But it was really all of the polish that finally wore me down. Spent a year playing with the outermost 10% of the screen flickering sometimes in some games. I never could figure it out. Got tired seeing the HDR box in games knowing I had monitors that supported it but a card that broke font rendering with it enabled. Tired of some games randomly crashing because suddenly the drivers broke again. And the 20xx series is the next one to lose support entirely.