About to get a new box - gpu support...

vespaman

Hi Guys

I have been using intel built-in graphics for about ten year now, but need get a new box @work, where I'm considering a Ryzen 7 or 9, so I need a real GPU, which I have actually missed especially in 3d windows (virtualbox) apps (cad).

Considering that I don't need gaming performance at work, my focus is stability and minimum troubles instead. So I'm looking for advice about driver support - does one of them standout in any way, or are they equal in this respect nowadays?

I'm thinking mainstream RX590/GTX1660 class cards.

asturm · Developer Joined: 05 Apr 2007 Posts: 8956

Avoid Nvidia, use AMD.

vespaman · Posted: Wed Nov 13, 2019 6:31 pm Post subject:

That was a very clear advice

Thanks!

Tony0945 · Posted: Wed Nov 13, 2019 6:56 pm Post subject:

Buy a cheap low power Radeon card and use the built-in kernel driver.
This is the latest that I bought. Apparently it's obsolete now (two years later). Buy something in the low 200's (model number)
No sense in consuming power and generating heat if you are not gaming.
I think MSI makes nice cards too, and EVGA, but I don't know if EVGA is only nvidia,
https://www.newegg.com/gigabyte-radeon-r5-230-gv-r523d3-1gl/p/N82E16814125841?Item=N82E16814125841

Linux AMD Radeon drivers seem more up to date than nvidia nouveau drivers. Probably a matter of cooperation between the company and the kernel team.

EDIT:
A quick check at MSI's site: https://www.msi.com/Graphics-card/R5-230-1GD3H
Only consumes 15W
Don't know the price but it must be cheap.

vespaman · Posted: Wed Nov 13, 2019 7:38 pm Post subject:

Good advice, low power sounds nice (literally as well as consumption). I'll see what I can dig up in the stores around here. A quick web search gave 560 as the lowest end available, but at least they seem to be way better in this respect than the 590.

Thanks!

NeddySeagoon · Posted: Wed Nov 13, 2019 8:09 pm Post subject:

vespaman,

What asturm said.
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Ant P. · Watchman Joined: 18 Apr 2009 Posts: 6920

Tony0945 · Posted: Thu Nov 14, 2019 4:15 am Post subject:

Very nice, Ant P.

NeddySeagoon · Posted: Thu Nov 14, 2019 7:34 pm Post subject:

From a convection cooled (no fans) card.

BlueManCZ · n00b Joined: 11 Mar 2017 Posts: 22

I made a small power usage measurement with my GTX 1060 card, nvidia-smi tool, Gnome 3 and two screen setup.

10-15W idle, office work, browser, video
Sometimes you get 30W lockup peaks.
60W Blender cuda rendering
70-100W Dota 2 dynamic scene rendering
100-120W (all power you can get) Unigine Superposition benchmark

mir3x · Guru Joined: 02 Jun 2012 Posts: 455

RTX 2060 5W on idle

xdarma · Posted: Sun Dec 08, 2019 2:20 pm Post subject:

Hi, I use a Radeon RX 570 with amdgpu driver built from kernel source.
It's possible to limit maximum power consumption and average fan speed via kernel /sys interface.
This is my /etc/local.d/10-amdgpu.start