Don't do it, stay with Nvidia.
-- someone who went from a 3090 to a 7900XTX and regrets it
this post was submitted on 15 Mar 2025
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I have not regretted it at all, on my account I posted my first 24 hours with the card, and just general experience thus far. I enjoy the card, I like having the raw performance over having to utilize upscaling constantly, you may be disappointed in ray tracing performance? which makes sense nvidia made that so they would theoretically be the best but they don't care about making actually good hardware anymore nor do they care about gamers
No one cares about gamers, buy a console if all you want to do is play games, or run windows then.
Sounds like you've had a bad experience or something, I enjoy tinkering and running my games while maintaining my performance and privacy. I've had no issues, telling someone to get a console is a ridiculous statement nowadays there's no reason to. I also just realized what community I'm in so I'm going to assume you are responding this way because I chose endeavour instead of arch directly lol
A bad experience? I've been using Linux for nearly 30 years, since the late 90's. My bad experience is finding communities dominated by people that only care about gaming and making things brain dead easy, from flatpaks to entire distributions designed to emulate the look and feel of Windows.
And consoles? If it wasn't for the Steamdeck/Proton 90% of you would still be running Windows. Even with all the advancements, Linux gamers are still less than 1.5% of the market share.
Also, my closet 3090 machine runs EndeavourOS and ollama/stable diffusion. Endeavour is just Arch with an installer and a couple of shell scripts.
I don't understand the points you are trying to make, like this started from you telling people not to swap because of a bad upgrade choice. I also now see you are one of the few that have been using Linux for so long you think anyone new to it shouldn't be here. You are part of the problem why Linux is so small in percentage. I never claimed it was good for gaming or that was my reason for switching. Nor did I ask anyone to hold my hand the whole way. I did my research and couldn't decide as I'm still new so I asked for advice. You feel so smart since you've been using Linux for 30 years. Yeah I game so I probably wouldn't if I couldn't play my games obviously what a solid argument lol. But your wasting your breathe on me. I'm a tech and privacy enthusiast I finally want to learn just like many other let us learn don't discourage us. If it makes you feel better while I use flatpaks I do think it is stupid that people are going for a windows experience on Linux, in that case just use windows.
Why do you regret it? I'm currently using a 2080 but I'm thinking of upgrading to a 9070 XT when I can get hold of one
If I'm paying $2k+ for a card, I want to be able to fully utilize it, and not just for the occasional bit of gaming.
CUDA has far more support than ROCm for a variety of things, from 3D render/design applications to AI powered tools. Nothing sucks more than coming across a nifty app or tool and finding out you can't use it because you chose the wrong GPU.
Ah fair enough, I have heard that's an issue but I can't really see it being a problem for me as I will basically just be using it for gaming
Like I said I just got my card but even coming a 4070 I enjoy this card a lot, it's just raw power and in my opinion it makes everything run so much smoother even in games like cyberpunk where my fps isnt that drastically different as I didn't use ray tracing before anyway and if you do end up with one a cool thing to note I haven't tinkered much but I immediately dropped 50 watts off the card and it's performing the same as it did with all 300 something watts
If you configured your X server manually, remove any mentions of Nvidia or it won't start. Yeah I didn't that to myself.
You should remove the nvidia drivers. AFAIK leaving them on won't affect the AMD GPU, but no sense in keeping them if you aren't using them.
AMD's open source drivers work perfectly out of the box and come with the mesa package which comes packaged with most Linux distros, so it's pretty much plug and play.
Just some FYI notes : Arch purists might get upset if you ask for help with Arch-derived distros (like Endeavour) on their forums. Also, RTFM. Check if https://wiki.archlinux.org/ has clear answers before asking online. Learning for yourself is always better than being spoonfed
Thanks for the reply, and I did try to answer the question myself I just wanted to make sure I came to the correct conclusion with my research I guess I should have been more clear, and I only chose here because I couldn't find a community for my OS on Lemmy I'm sure there is one I just needed a quick answer. Thanks for the warning though lol arch purist are the reason people are afraid to make the switch or ask questions it's ridiculous honestly
I'd say install vulkan-radeon package first and then uninstall Nvidia drivers, otherwise some packages might complain about missing dependencies, ex. Steam
Is this analogous to radv? If so, does it need to be manually installed?
vulkan-radeon is radv
right, good to know. I was under the impression this was included with Mesa. Admittedly I've never provisioned a system on Linux without amd gfx from the get go. Do users switching from nvidia (for example) to amd gfx need to manually install radv on their systems?
RADV is only important when you want to use Vulkan, OpenGL is a part of Mesa package
Radv is also a part of mesa, along with anv, nvk, turnip etc
Yes, but it's packaged separately on Arch
Oh I see, good to know
Exactly the same for me, expect im running a 2060 Super, maybe 2070 Super, i forget. Been thinking about upgrading my system, atleast the GPU and been thinking about trying AMD this time around