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Title    10 Reasons Linux Gamers Might Want To Pass On The NVIDIA RTX 20 Series
Date    Wednesday September 12 2018, @03:08AM
Author    Fnord666
Topic   
from the top-ten-list dept.
https://soylentnews.org/article.pl?sid=18/09/11/2124257

MrPlow writes:

Submitted via IRC for takyon

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:

  1. Lack of open-source driver support
  2. It will be a while before seeing RTX/ray-tracing Linux games
  3. Turing appears to be a fairly incremental upgrade outside of RTX
  4. The GeForce GTX 1080 series already runs very well
  5. Poor Wayland support
  6. The Linux driver support for Turing is unclear
  7. These graphics cards are incredibly expensive
  8. SLI is next to worthless on Linux
  9. VR Linux support is still in rough shape
  10. 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

Original Submission

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  1. "MrPlow" - https://soylentnews.org/~MrPlow/
  2. "Nvidia Announces RTX 2080 Ti, 2080, and 2070 GPUs, Claims 25x Increase in Ray-Tracing Performance" - https://soylentnews.org/article.pl?sid=18/08/21/0148251
  3. "Original Submission" - https://soylentnews.org/submit.pl?op=viewsub&subid=28851
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