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arrow-up1116arrow-down1external-linkThe GPU price hike is here and you should avoid any Nvidia card with more than 8 GB VRAM, if you value your bank balancewww.pcgamer.comalessandro@lemmy.ca to PC Gaming@lemmy.caEnglish · 14 hours agomessage-square57linkfedilink
minus-squarekbal@fedia.iolinkfedilinkarrow-up70arrow-down1·14 hours agoIf you’re planning to buy a GPU in the 2020s it’s probably best to aim for late 2023.
minus-squarePriorityMotif@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up16·14 hours agoA used 1080ti is half the price of a 3060 and has more vram
minus-squaremesa@piefed.sociallinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·6 hours agoIve got a 1070 that still works really well. Steam games and all.
minus-squarealakey@piefed.sociallinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up8arrow-down2·10 hours agoAlso is on life support drivers, does not support compute shaders and is not supported by modern Linux at all.
minus-squarekugmo@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up7·10 hours agoLife support drivers yes, not supported by modern Linux is a blatant lie.
minus-squarealakey@piefed.sociallinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3arrow-down1·edit-26 hours agoHow so? Nvidia dropped support, so as it stands you are at the mercy of the distro maintainers to keep the old drivers in the repos.
minus-squarekugmo@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·2 hours ago3rd party repos or packaging it yourself. On Arch you can just update the pkgbuild yourself (or any other distro really).
minus-squareyeehaw@lemmy.calinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·7 hours agowhile fair, the crappy open source drivers are still under development as far as I’m aware.
minus-squarealakey@piefed.sociallinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·6 hours agoAs far as I could tell Neuveu drivers do not support older cards at all. It does load into the environment, but crashes as soon as there’s any rendering trying to happen.
minus-squarePriorityMotif@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·9 hours agoThen buy a used 3060 for $250-$300
If you’re planning to buy a GPU in the 2020s it’s probably best to aim for late 2023.
A used 1080ti is half the price of a 3060 and has more vram
Ive got a 1070 that still works really well. Steam games and all.
Also is on life support drivers, does not support compute shaders and is not supported by modern Linux at all.
Life support drivers yes, not supported by modern Linux is a blatant lie.
How so? Nvidia dropped support, so as it stands you are at the mercy of the distro maintainers to keep the old drivers in the repos.
3rd party repos or packaging it yourself. On Arch you can just update the pkgbuild yourself (or any other distro really).
while fair, the crappy open source drivers are still under development as far as I’m aware.
As far as I could tell Neuveu drivers do not support older cards at all. It does load into the environment, but crashes as soon as there’s any rendering trying to happen.
Then buy a used 3060 for $250-$300