Not a theoretical question, thinking about a Christmas giveaway on this sub. Got a TON of hell over the last one from two particular folks, trying to make this one less stressful for myself. Just asking, please don’t go weird. It’s not hard to giveaway this stuff so r/Bulletdust and friends, can you please stay out of this discussion if all you are going to do is blast me to hell like you did when I gave away a
Steam Deck here?

  • kolovedBEnglish
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    10 months ago

    If u want to make wifu in stable diffusion get 4090, If u also usd NN

  • MisterSheepleBEnglish
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    10 months ago

    If you need CUDA or NVENC, get Nvidia. If you don’t need those, then avoid it like the plague.

  • matchopBEnglish
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    10 months ago

    I have 4070 and 4090. I like having some flexibility to run some CUDA stuff. Though I had some episodes with NVidia driver, but if you just get the ones that come with your distribution, should be generally ok. Im on Fedora on both.

  • shmerlBEnglish
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    10 months ago

    7900 XTX (using it now). Upstream kernel support, proper Wayland experience and so on.

  • Emmerson_BiggonsBEnglish
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    10 months ago

    For free? Definitely a 4090, because the only problem with the 4090 is the price especially compared to the 7900xtx.

  • Framed-PhotoBEnglish
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    10 months ago

    It kinda depends. I’d get the 4090 for the support in actual software (cuda, DLSS, RT, etc), but if it was just for general desktop use then an AMD card is gonna be better.

    I haven’t actually rocked a nvidia card in a long time, but from what I understand it’s really not that bad these days.

  • SmuttyFemboyBEnglish
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    10 months ago

    I don’t like nvidia on Linux but those raytracing gains are no joke, so 4090

  • TrrruBEnglish
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    10 months ago

    4090 because it’s faster and even if I were to encounter issues with it, I could easily sell it and get a 7900 XTX. Can’t do that the other way around.

    If the requirement was not to sell a gift under any circumstances then I’d lean towards 7900 XTX because it’s more likely to work hassle-free on linux, ROCm and OpenCL actually work for me, and VR that doesn’t work on linux works in a vm with the GPU passed through. The downsides are that DLSS is still better on average than FSR and Nvidia stomps AMD when it comes to path tracing, so at two non-tech demos, but that number is bound to grow in time.

  • brunomarquesbrBEnglish
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    10 months ago

    Honestly? Giveaways should give products people will love to use, which is not the case with nvidia and Linux. Even if they sell the product to gain money, at this point just give the money directly. The cool aspect of a giveaway is exactly to give something people will use and love it, not that they will sell.

  • bradgyBEnglish
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    10 months ago

    If you are a Microsoft employee, u/heatlesssun, you’re the best damn Microsoft employee we could hope for here at r/linux_gaming

    Btw, at your next stand up, can you tell Phil we want Gamepass on Steam?

  • Taylor_Swifty13BEnglish
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    10 months ago

    I have a 6900xt. it’s nice. cs2 Is still a stuttery mess though

  • zroodaBEnglish
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    10 months ago

    I think practically useful RT (getting above 120 fps) is generations away for both vendors and when we discount that then AMD does almost everything better, Linux drivers included. So XTX for sure.

  • Zeddie-BEnglish
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    10 months ago

    Strictly as a Linux gamer, 7900 XTX.