I'm upgrading my computer, with a new motherboard, graphics card, and cpu. I use 64-bit Archlinux.
The big issue is the graphics card. Currently, in a price to performance standpoint, Nvidia looks bad, based on the benchmarks I've seen. The subject cards have similar performance, but the Nvidia card is at least $30 more.
Years ago I went Nvidia because of the horrible, at the time, state of the proprietary ATI graphics driver. Having looked around, it seems there are still issues, in particular that I would have to downgrade Xorg for the drivers to work. I don't mind doing that, as long as I could have a warm fuzzy feeling that the driver will be stable and give good performance.
I'd rather not spend the money on an ATI card with fantastic performance in reviews and then find that since I run linux I can expect half the performance.
So, should I go for an ATI card, or should I stick with Nvidia, whose binary driver hasn't let me down yet?
The big issue is the graphics card. Currently, in a price to performance standpoint, Nvidia looks bad, based on the benchmarks I've seen. The subject cards have similar performance, but the Nvidia card is at least $30 more.
Years ago I went Nvidia because of the horrible, at the time, state of the proprietary ATI graphics driver. Having looked around, it seems there are still issues, in particular that I would have to downgrade Xorg for the drivers to work. I don't mind doing that, as long as I could have a warm fuzzy feeling that the driver will be stable and give good performance.
I'd rather not spend the money on an ATI card with fantastic performance in reviews and then find that since I run linux I can expect half the performance.
So, should I go for an ATI card, or should I stick with Nvidia, whose binary driver hasn't let me down yet?
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