Modern Graphic Cards and Linux

[Richard-BKK]

Got a new system, nothing fancy just an Intel i5-4670K with a Asus Z87M-Plus motherboard, 16GB (2x 8GB Kingston Extreme) 1600Mhz, and a Samsung 840 EVO 120GB SSD partnered with a WD 1TB “Blue” as /home. It's also nice to know that Fedora 19, the Linux release we use works flawless... I installed it from a USB thumb-drive as at the time I was still thinking if the system needed a DVD-RW or not...

The question is what is a good graphic card, the Haswell chip is better than anything Intel offered before, but it's not really good enough for doing a lot of graphic stuff.

In the past I would almost automatically looked at Nvidia graphic cards, but after a friend of my bought a new AMD HD 7750 I was impressed with the price/performance ratio. Of course my friends runs MS Windows 7 and therefore it would not directly translate into a good graphic card for a Linux system.

But maybe on this forum there are people who have positive or negative experience with AMD/ATI graphic cards and Linux?

To keep this question serious we should limit ourselves to graphic cards that where released after 2011, anything older than 2 years is in graphic card terms “ancient”... and to my personal idea would not represent the current market situation...

[JSixpack]

Get the AMD HD 7770 for about B500 more. I have a HD 7750 myself.

You can install the AMD drivers for it and they should fine. I did so on my Linux Mint; no problems. I can't see any case for preferring Nvidia.

[keeniau96]

I have used both Nvidia and AMD on my Mint rig which is considerably upscale from your setup. Both are OK but I prefer Nvidia, partially habit but also I muck around with Hackintosh quite a bit and Nvidia far easier to use in Mt. Lion installs. The GT640 is a very good buy, currently about 3k baht, but I am considering a GTX650 Ti or maybe GTX660.

[Richard-BKK]

The Nvidia GT640 would not impress much people, the AMD HD 7750 is comparable with a GTX650 http://www.videocardbenchmark.net/high_end_gpus.html

I normally also select Nvidia graphic cards for my systems, but with the latest AMD/ATI offerings and prices I'm willing to consider an alternative...

[Richard-BKK]

For another system I'm still thinking of buying a AMD/ATI 7750, as I believe that this is the best option (price/performance) possible. The computer I want to use this AMD 7750 for can only use low-profile expansion cards.

So if somebody seen a graphic card that is better than a AMD 7750 in low-profile form-factor I would be very happy to hear about that....

[JSixpack]

Linux loving Radeon even more:

http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=amd_linux312_major&num=1

[Phil Conners]

I have a 7850 i bought for some tests last month that I decided I don't really need anyway, if anyone is interested send me a PM.

[gpdjohn]

Using an Dell Precision M4600 i5 with the older M5950 , cira 2011 ( AMD ATI ) w/ 16gb ram and not seeing any problems with Ubuntu 13.10.