If you need to compute on the GPU (for example, to be able to run Davinci Resolve), getting that to work on Linux is much easier with nvidia than with AMD. For playing games and stuff, AMD is fine and probably a bit better/easier. But if you need to run computation on your GPU under Linux, nvidia is the way to go.
ROCM has been growing a lot, I can’t think of anything that hasn’t worked with opencl and rocm recently, so any card since the 7000 series is completely viable.
In my experience, I could not for the life of me get opencl working on Linux. Tried drivers from a bunch of different sources, installed and configured different ways … each time, I’d go through a bunch of trouble reinstalling, only to finally end up with the same issue of it just not working ‘no opencl device detected’, etc, etc. Eventually got sick of it and tried an nvidia card instead … which worked perfectly on the first try once I installed nvidia’s drivers.
Granted, that was a few years ago. Maybe the driver software for AMD cards has improved since then. But I’m definitely not going to go out and buy an AMD card just to test if anything has changed – not in this economy!
AMD runs better on linux. Stop feeding nvidia
Akhshualy, Linux runs on AMD.
And AMD drivers run on Linux. It’s an ouroboros.
If you need to compute on the GPU (for example, to be able to run Davinci Resolve), getting that to work on Linux is much easier with nvidia than with AMD. For playing games and stuff, AMD is fine and probably a bit better/easier. But if you need to run computation on your GPU under Linux, nvidia is the way to go.
(Speaking from experience.)
ROCM has been growing a lot, I can’t think of anything that hasn’t worked with opencl and rocm recently, so any card since the 7000 series is completely viable.
In my experience, I could not for the life of me get opencl working on Linux. Tried drivers from a bunch of different sources, installed and configured different ways … each time, I’d go through a bunch of trouble reinstalling, only to finally end up with the same issue of it just not working ‘no opencl device detected’, etc, etc. Eventually got sick of it and tried an nvidia card instead … which worked perfectly on the first try once I installed nvidia’s drivers.
Granted, that was a few years ago. Maybe the driver software for AMD cards has improved since then. But I’m definitely not going to go out and buy an AMD card just to test if anything has changed – not in this economy!
Yeah, but I run local AI models and don’t want the experience to suck ass.
Local inference on AMD is getting crazy these days. 90-100tps decode for Qwen 3.8 Flash Next on a single R9700.
Have you tried not doing that?