Are they some graphic card benchmark for linux environment ? From my windows experience, drivers are important, and often underestimate. My linux gaming experience is very bad, lots of my game are unstable, and others use a lot more resources than with windows. However, when I ask people, some of them have no issue at all, even with a similar environment (Debian + Steam). I may consider buy specific graphic card to stay on linux, but I couldn’t find any clue to know which one are more adapted.

Thx for your leads !

  • Telorand
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    2 months ago

    Another consideration is whether they are plugged into the graphics card. Common performance “problems” arise when somebody tries to plug into the video-out on the motherboard, so they could be accidentally forcing the use of the iGPU, if present.

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      2 months ago

      If using a somewhat modern distro, this isn’t an issue anymore (unless you run a really old OpenGL game).

      I run my PC in this way with little to no performance degradation: monitors go to my motherboard (r5 2400g CPU with vega11 iGPU) and games use my RX 5700XT without having to do anything at all… Pretty smart handling tbh

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        2 months ago

        That is, because supposedly that limitation still affects Windows. Do you use supergfxctl?

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          1 month ago

          I’m running vanilla Fedora 40. Haven’t installed that, and just checked and it’s not even on fedora’s repos

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            1 month ago

            I just remembered that that package isn’t compatible with Plasma 6 (yet), so maybe it got dropped from the official repos when they officially released 40.

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      2 months ago

      True, but I don’t think it’s the case for OP since he reported less performance than on Windows, so I assume he meant on the same hardware.

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        2 months ago

        I think that’s more of a proof that I shouldn’t answer these before I’ve had my caffeine. Good catch!