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Well you can play rage with wine + nvidia, but had issues with fglrx + hd 5670. i would definitely not buy amd hardware for linux, no and never. Especially not a highend card, maybe a 20? one in case i dont have got onboard vga and search something cheap...
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Originally posted by Cybolic View PostI was actually thinking of getting an AMD 7970 instead of a GTX 680 due to the recent benchmarks posted here, but now I'm not so sure.
Can any of you offer any advice? I'm going to use the card for mostly gaming, likely playing games through Wine (seeing that the only demanding native Linux game seems to be Oil Rush) and playing video (through HDMI to my TV).
Would there really be much difference between the two cards? And which would be most future proof in regards to Wayland?
As for future proofing, both are currently far more powerful then you'd need with any game availible natively via Gameolith or Desura need, but personally I'd go with an AMD part due to their commitment to OSS graphics drivers. Though currently Nvidia cards have better support in Wine due to all the years of the only real option being Nvidia hardware, but as we've seen that is starting to change now that more devs are picking up AMD GPUs.
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Originally posted by Cybolic View PostI was actually thinking of getting an AMD 7970 instead of a GTX 680 due to the recent benchmarks posted here, but now I'm not so sure.
Can any of you offer any advice? I'm going to use the card for mostly gaming, likely playing games through Wine (seeing that the only demanding native Linux game seems to be Oil Rush) and playing video (through HDMI to my TV).
Would there really be much difference between the two cards? And which would be most future proof in regards to Wayland?
I'd probably recommend NVidia in your case, because WINE support is generally still better, and VDPAU is definitely better.
Both cards will gain Wayland support eventually, and it will almost certainly come in this order: 1. 7970 OSS driver, 2. NVidia binary driver, 3. 7970 fglrx driver.
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...yesterday AMD released the AMD Radeon HD 7970 GHz graphics card.
The lower-end cards that have "GHz editions" I can somewhat understand, but a 7970 edition seems extremely pointless to me.
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Originally posted by Kano View PostI would go for GTX 670. Maybe not winning every benchmark but fast enough and games work with wine and you can use newer kernels (currently fglrx max is 3.3) and xservers (fgrlx does not run with debian 64 bit xserver 1.12).
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I would go for GTX 670. Maybe not winning every benchmark but fast enough and games work with wine and you can use newer kernels (currently fglrx max is 3.3) and xservers (fgrlx does not run with debian 64 bit xserver 1.12).
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I was actually thinking of getting an AMD 7970 instead of a GTX 680 due to the recent benchmarks posted here, but now I'm not so sure.
Can any of you offer any advice? I'm going to use the card for mostly gaming, likely playing games through Wine (seeing that the only demanding native Linux game seems to be Oil Rush) and playing video (through HDMI to my TV).
Would there really be much difference between the two cards? And which would be most future proof in regards to Wayland?
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The story will change once Steam for Linux is released with various Source Engine titles, but you're still weeks away from seeing any beta at least.
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AMD Radeon HD 7970 GHz - Is It Worth It On Linux?
Phoronix: AMD Radeon HD 7970 GHz - Is It Worth It On Linux?
In its battle against NVIDIA's Kepler, yesterday AMD released the AMD Radeon HD 7970 GHz graphics card. Here's some thoughts from a Linux perspective...
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