alessandro@lemmy.ca to PC Gaming@lemmy.caEnglish · 5 天前The GPU price hike is here and you should avoid any Nvidia card with more than 8 GB VRAM, if you value your bank balancewww.pcgamer.comexternal-linkmessage-square66linkfedilinkarrow-up1141arrow-down13
arrow-up1138arrow-down1external-linkThe GPU price hike is here and you should avoid any Nvidia card with more than 8 GB VRAM, if you value your bank balancewww.pcgamer.comalessandro@lemmy.ca to PC Gaming@lemmy.caEnglish · 5 天前message-square66linkfedilink
minus-squarekbal@fedia.iolinkfedilinkarrow-up85arrow-down1·5 天前If you’re planning to buy a GPU in the 2020s it’s probably best to aim for late 2023.
minus-squarePriorityMotif@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up19arrow-down1·5 天前A used 1080ti is half the price of a 3060 and has more vram
minus-squarealakey@piefed.sociallinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up13arrow-down2·4 天前Also is on life support drivers, does not support compute shaders and is not supported by modern Linux at all.
minus-squarekugmo@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up12·4 天前Life support drivers yes, not supported by modern Linux is a blatant lie.
minus-squarealakey@piefed.sociallinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up6arrow-down1·edit-24 天前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.
minus-squareyeehaw@lemmy.calinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·4 天前while fair, the crappy open source drivers are still under development as far as I’m aware.
minus-squarealakey@piefed.sociallinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up6·4 天前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.
minus-squarekugmo@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3arrow-down1·4 天前3rd party repos or packaging it yourself. On Arch you can just update the pkgbuild yourself (or any other distro really).
minus-squarePriorityMotif@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·4 天前Then buy a used 3060 for $250-$300
minus-squaremesa@piefed.sociallinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·4 天前Ive got a 1070 that still works really well. Steam games and all.
If you’re planning to buy a GPU in the 2020s it’s probably best to aim for late 2023.
A used 1080ti is half the price of a 3060 and has more vram
Also is on life support drivers, does not support compute shaders and is not supported by modern Linux at all.
Life support drivers yes, not supported by modern Linux is a blatant lie.
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.
while fair, the crappy open source drivers are still under development as far as I’m aware.
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.
3rd party repos or packaging it yourself. On Arch you can just update the pkgbuild yourself (or any other distro really).
Then buy a used 3060 for $250-$300
Ive got a 1070 that still works really well. Steam games and all.