On 2019-09-24 04:16, tv.deb...@googlemail.com wrote:
On 23/09/2019 23:39, email.list...@gmail.com wrote:
Hi!
I'm building a new machine and I'm looking at graphics cards right
now. I want a card that can handle 4k for regular productivity tasks
(if it can handle gaming at those resolutions doesn't matter), that
is as silent as possible and has good support in debian. Right now
I'm considering a Radeon RX 5700. Does anyone have any experience
with this card or a recommendation for another card?
regards
Andreas Berglund
Hi, I have four Radeon RX desktop GPUs (polaris10 and RX Vega) here
and they work very well, no proprietary driver required, just a recent
kernel and Debian.
polaris10, that's the 560-590 cards right?
What's the noise level like on those?
For Navi10 generation cards (RX5700) the support is still very green,
the firmware only made it to the official linux git tree a few days
ago [1]. You will need to ride with the latest kernel code (5.3
currently in development) and Mesa 19.2 (available in Debian
experimental only for now).
If you are not in a hurry wait a bit for those components to be
available in your Debian flavor (via backport, or if you are running
Testing/Unstable) and go for the RX5700.
If you want perfect support right now a Polaris10 or RX Vega card
would be a better bet. They can be had for a good price now and work
very well on Linux.
If you want support and the best performance it's the Radeon VII which
offers the best (pricey) option for now.
I want stability first and foremost, I just need the card to be good
enough to handle a larger monitor with a high resolution once I get
around to buying that, so I'm thinking perhaps the rx570 is a good bet.
For GPU support status on Linux the Phoronix website is the best
around [2].
Hope it helps.
It was very helpful, thank you.
[1]
https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/firmware/linux-firmware.git/commit/?id=417a9c6e197a8d3eec792494efc87a2b42f76324
[2] https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=category&item=Graphics+Cards
