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Re:The death watch for the X Window System has probably started by effie on Sunday July 07, 2019 @08:45PM (#20379041)
Well, they don't play as nice as AMD, but they do at least give you working drivers. They do have place for consumers, there are valid use cases for Nvidia on Linux, such as:

1) top performance available on the market;

2) off-the-shelf passive cooled 4K capable cards (GT 1030);

3) (significantly) better performance per watt and less noise for high-end cards.

I still prefer AMD for their play-nice attitude with Linux and seemingly better track record on behaviour towards consumers, but Nvidia for the last years have been offering better hardware.

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Re:The death watch for the X Window System has probably started by vbernat on Monday July 08, 2019 @12:21AM (#20379869)
I have run a GT 1030 with a pair of 4K displays for a few months and the performance is terrible (for a desktop usage). I don't know where the bottleneck is (PCI bandwidth maybe) but you should avoid this card. I have replaced it with an RX550 and I don't have any performance problem anymore. It is not passively cooled, but the fan can be stopped from software if you want.
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Re:The death watch for the X Window System has probably started by effie on Monday July 08, 2019 @06:03PM (#20387210)
Perhaps you got the "disgrace version" of GT 1030 with slow DDR4 in place of GDDR5? [1]

[1] https://www.gamersnexus.net/hwreviews/3330-gt-1030-ddr4-vs-g...

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Re:The death watch for the X Window System has probably started by vbernat on Wednesday July 10, 2019 @02:27PM (#20404824)
Yes, I have the DDR4 version. I wouldn't have thought it would matter much for a desktop usage.
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Re:The death watch for the X Window System has probably started by shmerl on Sunday July 07, 2019 @09:21PM (#20379209)
Given all the above, I'd call them "working", not working :)

> top performance available on the market;

Not anymore with new Navi cards. And competition in the Linux market will probably get even stronger with Intel releasing new GPUs with open drivers next year. I.e. there will be no reason to buy Nvidia anymore with all the blob downsides that aren't going to disappear.

> off-the-shelf passive cooled 4K capable cards (GT 1030);

For gaming 4K is really a read herring today, and for regular non gaming desktop use case, you don't need strong GPUs even for 4K.

> (significantly) better performance per watt and less noise for high-end cards.

Also not anymore with Navi.

So I'd say things today look pretty bad for Nvidia on Linux, and they'll be gradually losing Linux desktop market, until they will start playing nice with upstream. Time will tell if they actually will. I don't think they care though. And neither Linux users would care to use them.

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