so my old GPU died a few days ago and I was thinking which brand of GPU to get next. AMD or Nvidia? I’ve heard Nvidia drivers are very annoying with Linux but I’ve never had an AMD GPU before. Which would be better? I’ll sometimee switch to Windows to play specific games as well.

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    1 year ago

    Intel dGPU

    That’s not the best idea. Performances are not even close of what they are on Windows
    Also there’s an idle power draw issue which can sometimes be fixed on windows but not on linux

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      That’s not the best idea. Performances are not even close of what they are on Windows

      Personal experience or rumors? First link I found says it’s slightly(4%) better than on windows.

      Also there’s an idle power draw issue which can sometimes be fixed on windows but not on linux

      Can you share how to fix it? What to write in which registers?

      Upd: just set scaling governor to powersave, lol

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        Your link is for an iGPU

        Here for Intel Arc

        From January but it hasn’t improved all that much

        The fix for power consumption is changing a setting for ASPM in motherboard (if it supports it) and pluging the monitor in the motherboard directly. It worked for me on windows but not on linux (no workaround AFAIK) This means 40W idling instead of 1W