Hey guys, sorry if this is the wrong place to ask this (feel free to point me to a better community) but I’m in a weird “predicament” this summer: My AMD build plans are in shambles after receiving a free ROG Astral 5080.

Now I want to make the switch now with my current (Intel i7-13700K) hardware + this new card. I was only considering AMD before but it’s really hard to say no to a video card worth more than my entire budget lol

The slightly worse performance compared to Windows is still an upgrade from my 3070 so that’s fine - It’s initial/recurring troubleshooting I don’t really want to deal with. Most of the info I’ve found is from earlier this year and no one speaks highly of the beta drivers

Sorry if this is a stupid question but am I setting myself up for disappointment with this new plan? I have a few more related questions I’ll toss in the comments but that’s my main concern.

  • glimse@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
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    5 days ago

    Unfortunately not really an option, the card is “on loan” indefinitely. TLDR: friend runs a 3D lab and orders new PCs + spare cards every two years but those spares have never been used outside of his own PC. So I’ll have a spare until it’s time to upgrade (or if 5 GPUs in the lab die)

    What was so bad about it? Was this in the past year? I’m reading a LOT of conflicting stuff

    • PushButton@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      5 days ago

      1070, 3060 and 3050ti.

      On the top of my head:

      • Wayland saga… (it’s fixed)
      • A few kernel version last summer made my 30x0 systems unstable (it’s fixed now, still)
      • The laptop comes with some other NV firmware, but at this day, the system randomly freeze
      • New available drivers would crash, so doing rollbacks was a thing I had to do here and there during the years

      Where AMD is boot and enjoy.

      But anyway, if you can’t get an AMD, the whole thing is moot.

      • glimse@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
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        5 days ago

        Well shit. I’m committed but it looks like my worries weren’t unfounded.

        I can deal with worse performance but definitely not freezing/crashing…hopefully I’m not forced back to Windows