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Am I in for a bad time with an RTX 5080 on Linux? (lemmy.world)
submitted 6 days ago by glimse@lemmy.world to c/linux@lemmy.world
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Hey guys, sorry if this is the wrong place to ask this (feel free to point me to a better community) but I'm in a weird "predicament" this summer: My AMD build plans are in shambles after receiving a free ROG Astral 5080.

Now I want to make the switch now with my current (Intel i7-13700K) hardware + this new card. I was only considering AMD before but it's really hard to say no to a video card worth more than my entire budget lol

The slightly worse performance compared to Windows is still an upgrade from my 3070 so that's fine - It's initial/recurring troubleshooting I don't really want to deal with. Most of the info I've found is from earlier this year and no one speaks highly of the beta drivers

Sorry if this is a stupid question but am I setting myself up for disappointment with this new plan? I have a few more related questions I'll toss in the comments but that's my main concern.

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[–] fuckwit_mcbumcrumble@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 6 days ago (1 children)

I don’t think I want steamOS

Good because SteamOS doesn't want you. It's AMD only at the moment.

Linux Mint is generally fine. But with bleeding edge hardware sometimes it's better to be on a newer distro that gets driver updates more often. But that largely depends on if you have any issues with the current drivers. I don't have any 50 series hardware to test to see what sort of issues there are. That said Nvidia has been making some good progress with their drivers after hiring Ben Skeggs.

[–] glimse@lemmy.world 1 points 6 days ago

Ah well that makes it easier!

Good call about the updates. I read a bit about the release schedules and assumed I'd want the "more stable" release schedules but that's a good point about using new hardware.

Good to know about the drivers, too! All of the performance comparisons I read this morning were from earlier this year and Linux was behind by quite a bit with Nvidia.