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What GPU for ~€300 should I get? (lemm.ee)
submitted 2 days ago by Bumblefumble@lemm.ee to c/linux_gaming@lemmy.world
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Hi all, I have transitioned my desktop PC to linux and am really liking it so far. I recently bought Oblivion Eemastered, but it seems like it's too much for my old 1060 6gb to handle. So now I'm looking at what options are available - and would obviously like to get an option that works well with Linux. Since I don't game as much anymore, I don't think I can justify spending much more than €300 on it. I haven't looked at the GPU market for 8 years now, so I don't know what's going. What advice do you people have? I have looked at the 4060, the 7600 and the 7600XT, but not sure if they are good value, I'm getting mixed info online.

I appreciate any help and advice you people have.

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[–] kugmo@sh.itjust.works 5 points 1 day ago (3 children)

Force the new xe driver (if it's not already the default) and it's better, but you'll want to run bleeding edge mesa and kernels for the best experience.

[–] A_Random_Idiot@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Yep, cause AMD and Intel GPU drivers are in the kernel itself, to update the drivers you gotta update the kernel.

Which you can, admittedly, do on any distro.. but with gaming distros (with AMD or Intel GPUs) you at least get them in your system update as soon as they are available without having to constantly check and manually update.

Which is why I try to steer people towards gaming focused distros when they want to game on linux. Just one of the many things gaming distros do to make less headache.

if you are on nvidia you might not want to be on a rapidly updating kernel distro, since their drivers are..special.