Nvidia Unveils GeForce RTX 30 Series GPUs

Re:Nvidia Unveils GeForce RTX 30 Series GPUs by tracker1 on Tuesday September 01, 2020 @06:12PM (#24347751)

Having gone through some hellish months on a 5700xt, AMD isn't any better than Nvidia on the Linux front, though since late January it was relatively stable (on beta linux kernel, which meant I couldn't use KVM/Virtualbox reasonably).

Personally, looking at the RTX 3070, for 1440p, but I'm not doing anything other than some casual gaming.

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Re:Nvidia Unveils GeForce RTX 30 Series GPUs by pdimitar on Thursday September 03, 2020 @12:19PM (#24365588)

What problems did you have with the 5700XT? Been pondering buying one for a mixed gaming/work Linux station.

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Re:Nvidia Unveils GeForce RTX 30 Series GPUs by distances on Friday September 04, 2020 @02:26AM (#24372258)

Just so you know, AMD is also releasing a GPU update this fall. Could be that drivers take a moment to stabilize again, but at least the old models should drop in price if you're not looking to be on bleeding edge.

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Re:Nvidia Unveils GeForce RTX 30 Series GPUs by tracker1 on Friday September 04, 2020 @04:57PM (#24378808)

Yeah, I'm hoping they're more stable out of the gate... from October through early January the navi cards were problematic to say the least.

Kind of works in kernel, update breaks it, switch distros to supported distro, load official driver package, update breaks it... switch to beta/bleeding kernel, graphics work, but kvm/virtualbox completely borked. I may do a clean install with PopOS 20.10 when it drops, which should be well supported in kernel and get virtualization support back in the box.

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Re:Nvidia Unveils GeForce RTX 30 Series GPUs by tracker1 on Friday September 04, 2020 @04:54PM (#24378788)

I'd give it a few weeks, should be able to get one used around $200 after the rtx 3000 availability shakes out. A GTX 1080 is around the same performance and pricing will be a little lower even.

Since January it's been pretty stable, I've been on the beta kernel releases though.. when say 20.10 ubuntu and derivatives drop, should be using a kernel that's stable for the 5700xt.

I've been working more on my Windows drive, using WSL2 + Docker Desktop (wsl2 option) for the past few months though, which I've been surprisingly happy with.

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Re:Nvidia Unveils GeForce RTX 30 Series GPUs by pdimitar on Friday September 04, 2020 @07:00PM (#24379754)

Here in Eastern Europe retailers are surprisingly stubborn and almost never drop prices of obsolete generations of tech. :(

I'd also love to read a guide about WSL2 + Docker.

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Re:Nvidia Unveils GeForce RTX 30 Series GPUs by tracker1 on Sunday September 06, 2020 @01:53AM (#24389302)

You have to be running Windows 10 version 2004 update or newer. There are lots of walkthroughs, but you install "Ubuntu" or another distro for under WSL via the Windows store.

If you install docker desktop with WSL2 installed, there's a configuration setting to "use wsl2" it may still be labelled beta as a feature. But it does work better.

I'm using the new Windows Terminal, and my default is set to WSL2 Ubuntu... for all intent and purpose, I launch VS Code from a wsl2 prompt/directory and it's connected into "linux" ... my terminal and code terminal/directory are in linux, and I use it like any linux distro from that pov. The desktop is windows, but almost everything I work in is via Linux under WSL2.

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