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Continuing on from the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 expectations on Linux shared earlier this week, here's a list of ten reasons why Linux gamers might want to pass on these soon-to-launch graphics cards from NVIDIA.
The list are various reasons you may want to think twice on these graphics cards -- at least not for pre-ordering any of them right away. Not all of them are specific to the Turing GPUs per se but also some NVIDIA Linux infrastructure problems or general Linux gaming challenges, but here's the list for those curious. And, yes, a list is coming out soon with reasons Linux users may want to consider the RTX 20 series -- well, mostly for developers / content creators it may make sense.
Here is the list:
- Lack of open-source driver support
- It will be a while before seeing RTX/ray-tracing Linux games
- Turing appears to be a fairly incremental upgrade outside of RTX
- The GeForce GTX 1080 series already runs very well
- Poor Wayland support
- The Linux driver support for Turing is unclear
- These graphics cards are incredibly expensive
- SLI is next to worthless on Linux
- VR Linux support is still in rough shape
- Pascal prices will almost surely drop
That's the quick list outside of my detailed pre-launch Linux analysis. A similar list of the pros for the RTX 20 series on Linux will be coming out shortly. It will certainly be interesting to see after 20 September how the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 20 series works on Linux.
Source: https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=10-Reasons-Pass-RTX-20-Linux
Previously: Nvidia Announces RTX 2080 Ti, 2080, and 2070 GPUs, Claims 25x Increase in Ray-Tracing Performance
(Score: 2) by Arik on Wednesday September 12 2018, @05:12AM (1 child)
I'm pretty sure it means that you *need* specific games.
In other words, that this is not an optional desire - it's a need - for a specific game from a specific source.
Which is why you have to work with what that specific source works with.
"Anyway, you are likely not a gamer if you are this confused."
I'm not at all confused, and I was likely a gamer before your father made the fatal mistake of looking at your mother.
"With nvidia on Linux it just works (most of the time anyway), with everything else it's "guess, pray and tweak until it does"."
Uhuh.
And what is "it" please?
The first occurrence of the word "it" in that sentence, to what noun does that pronoun refer?
"Sometimes it just "only nvidia cards are supported, everything else – you are on your own"."
And why does that matter to you, that sometimes someone might not support you?
What sort of support do you require?
"Your "Free OS" argument might have applied if I used gNewSense or something. If you are going full scale war on proprietary you might as well nuke your BIOS and CPU. Have to draw a line somewhere if I want anything work at all."
Work? What work? Weren't we talking about games?
If laughter is the best medicine, who are the best doctors?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday September 12 2018, @08:13PM
You could totally go back to lurking y'know.