Kanito 73 wrote: > I am about to buy a laptop (HP) that comes with the processor AMD Ryzen 5 > 3550H (link below) and the GPU AMD Radeon Vega 8 is integrated. In the > description table of the laptop it shows the Vega 8 graphics, but just below > it also shows the nVidia GeForce GTX 1050 graphics and I am a bit confused... > Does it have both GPUs? Radeon integrated on the Ryzen processor and nVidia > on the motherboard? Searching information at Google I found a post in a forum > describing that laptops with Ryzen processors have both GPUs and you can > switch them but it is a bit "tricky"...
Please link to the HP page, not the processor page. Ryzen 3 3550H will work quite nicely in Debian Stable; the integrated Radeon GPU is well-supported. You will want to install xserver-xorg-video-amdgpu and firmware-amd-graphics > By the way, at first I am more concerned about the drivers. I?ve read that > latest nVidia drivers do not work with the latest linux kernels and it is > required to downgrade to a previous kernel so you can install the official > nVidia?s driver. Is it real or currently I can install the most fresh AMD.COM > driver with no problems? Do the kernel support "nVidia GeForce GTX 1050 > graphics" with generic drivers and it will work fine for games or graphics > software (design, video, etc)? AMD and NVidia are different companies, and their drivers are different. Geting them to play together at the same time is difficult. > And related to the Vega 8 (integrated in the processor)... I visited AMD.COM > to see details of the driver and I found that it is only available for > Windows 10 (at least on the driver?s link). Does the kernel have support for > GPU Vega 8 (generic drivers) and work fine for games and graphics software? > Do you know about an alternative link or place where to get the official > driver for Linux or it does not exist? Debian has drivers. AMD produces a supported open-source version, which Debian uses, and a supported proprietary version, which you can install yourself, though I don't recommend it. > I am worried because don?t want to buy a USD 1200 laptop that will not work > on Linux (Debian 10) due incompatibility or lack of drivers... I hope you can > help me or tell me if it is safe to buy the laptop because it will work with > the official or generic drivers... $1200 is quite a lot for a last-generation laptop. I'm pretty sure HP and Lenovo both have less costly, more performance AMD laptops. -dsr-
