The Best Graphics Card Brands For NVIDIA/AMD GPUs As A Linux Consumer?

[trifud]

I administrate about 20 workstations running different flavors of Linux and a mixture of AMD and NVIDIA professional GPUs and I haven't seen a noticeable difference regarding compatibility. I have had some issues with FirePro drivers on RHEL7 but the problem has always been with RHEL and not with AMD. Actually, RHEL has always been troublesome in many different ways in our setup. I wonder how people can pay money for this trash. Regarding performance, I haven't benchmarked the systems. I haven't either noticed any difference in stability of drivers. If you can suggest what Phoronix tests to run on these, I may provide some statistics.

[humbug]

Sapphire is rock solid as far as AMD GPUs go. Currently using an R9 290 vapor-x.

When it comes to selecting the AIB there are loads of tech websites out there and youtube which has comparisons. It doesn't matter that those are done on windows as you basically want to see the cooling performance, size profile, noise levels and what it looks like. Their findings are perfectly relevant for Linux users.

When it comes to the choice of GPU architecture or of AMD vs Nvidia on linux people tend to use phoronix. And for now people who want performance and good gaming experience buy Nvidia. Whereas some people buy AMD for ideological reasons. Once you choose a model then you can use windows-based tech sites to narrow it down.

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Phoronix: The Best Graphics Card Brands For NVIDIA/AMD GPUs As A Linux Consumer?

One of the most frequent topics I'm emailed about is any brand recommendations among NVIDIA and AMD AIB partners for graphics cards. For Linux users, is there a particular brand preference for graphics cards?..

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