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  • watchbeans
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    Between Nvidia and AMD, I have read that the best in Linux gaming so far is Nvidia’s proprietary graphic. Other say that they perform the best for Linux.

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  • PublicNuisance
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    I tend to prefer MSI (Twin Frozer/Lightning), Asus(Strix/Poseidon/Matrix), XFX (Double D), Gigabyte (Wind Force) and EVGA (ACX) for their superior coolers they have. I will never again buy a GPU with a stock cooler. They just run too hot and over time get worse and worse. Also One thing I will mention as someone who finds it next to impossible to overclock his GPU on Linux, because I don't like to use terminal, I also try to get the card with the best stock overclock. One of these days I will attempt an overclock based on Terminal.

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  • Cobalt60
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    Originally posted by humbug View Post
    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.
    The point is to support the vendors who support Linux. For example, if EVGA sends test samples to Phoronix specifically for Linux testing, that shows that EVGA is contributing to the Linux community. If Gigabyte never sends test samples to anyone for Linux testing, that would suggest that they do not care about the Linux community. Therefore, I would choose an EVGA card over a Gigabyte.

    I personally make all my hardware purchase decisions with the most important factor being Linux support by the manufacturer.

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  • shess01
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    All things considered, what will matter most is the manufacturers warranty. Recently my MSI 7870 failed at just shy of 3 years (1 yr warranty) . In selecting my replacement parts for what turned into a new build, I exclusively bought ASUS and Gigabyte - both with 3 year warranties.
    Just my 2 cents.

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  • bug77
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    Originally posted by Adarion View Post
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    Also support is a topic in regard of differences. Try to talk to enterprises if you have a tech issue / question. Some will ignore you, some will try to fob you off asap with their "support personnel (outsourced people that work for a different company every second week and that doesn't have a clue about anything but copy / paste sentences from a FAQ). A few will actually give you some solid answers.

    E.g. I had a very nice and positive response from Zotac. I was totally blown that the guy even found out about the type of BIOS flash chip that was used on a miniITX board of them. Some others suspected that I was one of those Linux-guys when I asked them about the SuperIO / EC on a mainboard or laptop, but didn't have a clue which one was used (you would think somebody knew what they are selling...) or some even wrote kind of "why would anybody want to know about a superIO".

    But this may vary from person to person you talk / write to.
    Exactly the reason MSI is not on my list anymore. The one time I needed some help from them, they have replied late and the answer was actually a few lines from the manual.
    When I needed help from Abit, they apologized for being unable to source the same memory I had to try to reproduce my problem (they were still helpful).

    Yet Abit is gone today, while MSI is very much alive. Probably proper customer support is detrimental to business.

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  • Adarion
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    I think there are differences between the board manufactureres. They do use the same GPU chips in the end, yes, but there are differences in board layout, memory used, amount of memory, capacitors, cooling system and maybe also in some VGA BIOS or default settings (some overclock). There are probably enough quirks, especially in the field of mobile chips, needed in the kernel.
    I have relatively little comparison, though.
    Let aside my older cards (486 times...) it was some ASUS Geforce 3. HW was okay, but horrible software (as always) from Asus (W98 times on Athlon C and later Athlon XP, but the card also saw Linux kernels). Later I was running some onboard Radeon Xpress 1250 (?), a HD 3300 (onboard, both Asus) and following a Radeon HD 3870 from Sapphire; passive cooling (used free stack and fglrx). I stayed with Sapphire since then for my dedicated GPUs since someone said somewhere that Sapphire stays closest to AMD's reference designs - which is normally a good thing and should keep compatibility. Currently I run a Sapphire HD 5670 and I'm very fine with it (free stack only for some years now on the Linux side). The Kabini chips are "Biostar" (soldered E1-2100, but as a SOC it's basically AMD tech directly) and an Athlon 5350 (Socket AM1) but that's also AMD. Also my HP 635 notebook with an E-350 should be AMD directly, regardless who made the very board (Quanta or something likely).
    I'll check the market again once I have money and hopefully by then Polaris will be around.

    There have been a few fails on certain boards in the past with GPU chips that were actually fine - but the board manufacturer maybe messed something up in wiring, capacitors, improper cooling system or power supply. Well, an Nvidia's mobile blowups, but that was actually Nvidia's fault (and they knew it and still sold the defective units).

    Also support is a topic in regard of differences. Try to talk to enterprises if you have a tech issue / question. Some will ignore you, some will try to fob you off asap with their "support personnel (outsourced people that work for a different company every second week and that doesn't have a clue about anything but copy / paste sentences from a FAQ). A few will actually give you some solid answers.

    E.g. I had a very nice and positive response from Zotac. I was totally blown that the guy even found out about the type of BIOS flash chip that was used on a miniITX board of them. Some others suspected that I was one of those Linux-guys when I asked them about the SuperIO / EC on a mainboard or laptop, but didn't have a clue which one was used (you would think somebody knew what they are selling...) or some even wrote kind of "why would anybody want to know about a superIO".

    But this may vary from person to person you talk / write to.

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  • trifud
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    Originally posted by Michael View Post

    For workstation cards? SPECViewPerf is in there, but it's old.... OpenCL tests would probably be most interesting then like:

    phoronix-test-suite benchmark luxmark juliagpu smallpt-gpu shoc clpeak

    Or for some normal OpenGL tests for fun:

    phoronix-test-suite benchmark tesseract xonotic gputest

    This is AMD FirePro W8000 - the second most powerful GPU from the previous FiroPro family: https://openbenchmarking.org/result/...HA-UBUNTU16003

    I will do some more benchmarks with other GPUs later on.

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  • Kano
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    Many cards just use the reference desigins, there should no be a huge difference between those. Some semi-passive cards have got certainly a modified vbios, but could not notice any problems for Kanotix users with those. I only had some incompatibilites with UEFI first settings in an older Asus Z68 board. Newer boards seem to init in pure UEFI GOP mode just fine - sometimes you can only disable CSM with onboard but will stay disabled with a compatible UEFI GOP card. Just don't boot 32 bit systems over 64 bit UEFI - that will lead to problems.

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  • Thpn
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    I always base hardware purchase decisions on reliability and Linux compatibility. Everyone here has the compatibility issue down. These are my sources for comparative data on hardware reliability:


    At Puget Systems, we track a lot of data but one of the most important things we track is the failure rates of individual components. Reliability is of our primary values, so this data is invaluable for tracking both individual component, product line, and overall brand failure rates. With 2015 coming to a close, we thought we make public a bit of this data to let you know what hardware we found to be the most reliable in 2015.

    Our yearly surveys reveal just who PCMag readers love--and who they don't--in the world of technology products.

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  • omer666
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    I know it is mostly useless, but I tend to basically buy the same brand as my motherboard, which happens to be ASUS. I don't look into it any further. Oh and it looks good when I open the case (completely useless and ridiculous)

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