Been using AMD gpus for years due to their superb Linux support. Would like to play around with AI image generation completely offline so a Nvidia gpu is kinda must. Besides that I do some gaming as well.
Currently I have AMD RX 6750 XT and am considering replacing it with a RTX 5060 TI with 16 GB vram. How well does Nvidia gpus work in modern Linux systems. I’m running Tumbleweed with KDE plasma on X11.
Other hardware is Ryzen 7 7700X and an Asrock B650 PG Lightning motherboard.
Edit: Been using InvokeAI so far but cpu only is super slow.
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I have a 3070 and for the most part things work fine. Sleep and wake dont really work properly for me though.
Same with my GeForce RTX 3060 on Ubuntu. But I’m not trying to run any AI tools, OP.
Every post you make about any issue with anything Linux assumes you have an Nvidia GPU and also assumes that is the root of the problem by default. So, the problems are usually very well documented.
Let’s see what I’ve posted here… *checks post history*. This one post. Don’t know what’s up with you but at least you’re not being helpful.
most things work, some niche things like hw video acceleration and gamescope don’t
RTX 4080 Ti is working fine. I am doing the machine learning on it, and sometimes I play games. Linux Mint and proprietary driver.
Last I checked 50 series is just a lot less reliable than a 9070/XT in Linux. They should mostly work on anything with a new enough kernel but I think gamersnexus found like a 9070xt beating a 5090 in some games which is just silly, but mostly it was okay at least, and if you’re ray tracing then it’s still better even with inconsistencies. I would still probably suggest a 9070 at that price point tho.
How good is 9070/XT running image generation with stable diffusion based workloads?
ComfyUI works with a 7900xt. I imagine it works better with a 9070xt.
i have a 1650 and as long as you have that or newer the open source drivers should just work. iirc the proprietary drivers are a little better right now but that probably wont stay for long with how close they are.
Last time I tried an Nvidia GPU was around June 2025 and it was an RTX 3080 on Arch Linux.
I used the nvidia-dkms package and followed the Arch Wiki to get the proprietary drivers working and didn’t have too many problems there.
I use my PC mainly for gaming and browsing the web, so can’t comment on any productivity apps.
In terms of gaming, I think nearly all of the proprietary Nvidia technologies work on Linux, like DLSS, Reflex etc., albeit only on proprietary drivers.
Performance in games appear to be roughly on par with Windows, with an exception of DirectX 12 games where you will definitely notice a performance degradation.
There is a quirk with Flatpak apps, where you must have the same driver version as your system, otherwise apps won’t utilise them and default to either software rendering (ex. llvmpipe) or Nouveau.
Another quirk I had was with Wayland, where games were always Vsynced if I had VRR enabled on my monitor. On top of that it felt like Plasma handled compositing better when using Adaptive Sync on an AMD GPU than Nvidia. You’ve mentioned you’re using X11 so I think that shouldn’t be an issue for you.
Considering all of this, personally I’d still stick with AMD, mainly due to better Wayland experience and no performance degradation in DirectX 12 games. But again, that’s just my preference.
Thanks for the insights. Gaming performance is not a huge deal. The most demanding games in my library are probably Oblivion remaster, Metro Exodus enhanced edition, Hitman WoA and BG3.
There are problems with GPUs with more than 2 fans since the NVIDIA drivers only support 2 fan controllers. Usually the third fan is controlled by vendor software and many of those vendors do not have Linux software. What you end up with is a GPU where only 2 fans spin.
Other than that I have yet to run into any real problems.
Good to know. Thanks.
Nvidia has recently announced the end of of support for the GTX 1000 line, including the seemingly popular GTX 1080. So unless you want to switch to nouveau, you cannot use them anymore.
This is all I really know about the topic though, I’m an AMD GPU user myself.
How is this even remotely relevant to the question posted?
They pulled support for a GPU still widely used. If you buy an NVIDIA GPU today you will most likely face the same problem a few years down the line.
That gpu generation is few moths shy of being 10 years old so it’s unlikely 50 series would end support in a few years.
My secondary PC has a GPU in it that is more than 16 years old. Works as if it was brand new. I’d be pretty pissed if the support for any part of that PC just ended for no other reason that a billion dollar company trying to safe a few bucks 🤷
True that. That’s why I originally chose amd components for this computer. They’ll be supported until the sun explodes (give or take).
RTX 4070 on Bazzite. Everything works fine, but I don’t have the option to enable HDR in games. HDR works in desktop and apps though.
I have a Founder’s Edition, so I haven’t experienced the 3 fans issue. Sometimes I have to hit enter when waking from sleep for my monitor to turn on, though I imagine that’s a Samsung thing.
RTX 3050 and GTX 1650 both work great, but Fedora sometimes has a problem with keeping kernel modules up-to-date, so don’t trust auto update, always check for package removals/conflicts. Never had such a problem on OpenSUSE Tumbleweed
Utter shait ~ 30-50% worse performance, so you’d be looking at a downgrande after spending all that money. And that’s on bleeding edge like Cachy, go with mint or similar and the differential is even worse. I would hold off on upgrading for the next 1-2 years, it’ll be dirt cheap once the bubble inevitably bursts.
edit: Dafuq u doing using cpu only on invoke, it supports AMD GPUs out of the box without 0 user intervention other than selecting AMD GPU during Installation…
Wish it was that simple. If I select AMD device to use it won’t work. It crashes with: RuntimeError: HIP error: invalid device function.
Edit: Have a feeling it might be trying to use the igpu for some reason.
Just checked RDNA2 may not be fully supported HIP. Check this REDDIT guide for llama based adventures.
Did u run
rocm-smi
to check if you have rocm installed?
Check this issue at invoke’s hub for your same problem.
critically, don’t forget:
#!/bin/bash
export HSA_OVERRIDE_GFX_VERSION=10.3.0
bash invoke.sh
Regarding upgrades
The 9060XT would be a much better choice than the 5060 if one uses Linux and is upgrading, although, seeing price trends lately, nothing looks like a good choice at all at the moment. Maybe a second hand 7800xt, that would be a 20-30% upgrade.
Did u run
rocm-smiIt gives:
========================================== ROCm System Management Interface ========================================== ==================================================== Concise Info ==================================================== Device Node IDs Temp Power Partitions SCLK MCLK Fan Perf PwrCap VRAM% GPU% (DID, GUID) (Edge) (Avg) (Mem, Compute, ID) ====================================================================================================================== 0 1 0x73df, 60335 40.0°C 8.0W N/A, N/A, 0 500Mhz 96Mhz 0% auto 220.0W 19% 0% 1 2 0x164e, 6110 39.0°C 29.047W N/A, N/A, 0 N/A 3000Mhz 0% auto N/A 4% 0% ====================================================================================================================== ================================================ End of ROCm SMI Log =================================================You’re a life saver! Did the force reinstall mentioned in that github issue and ran Invoke with the command you provided. Now it runs with gpu rendering 🥳. Though I ran out of vram 🤣.
I’m happy it worked, props to the people helping on github, they’re the real heroes here, I’m just the messenger! Have fun m8!
I have a 5080 and it worked well with some issues:
Finding a distro that would boot from USB was a headache. Bazzite and Mint wouldn’t load, but Fedora did. HDR worked in videos, but not in games. I didn’t experience any performance issues with GPU heavy games, though I had to fudge around with Proton versions to get Armored Core 6 to work.
Valve Index worked with beat saber, but I could not mirror the VR to my TV using steam link. The index had poor frame rates for playing non-VR games in theatre mode.
OpenRGB still doesn’t have support to change the RGB on my card (Gigabyte Aorus).
Finding a distro that would boot from USB was a headache
Using
nomodeseton the kernel boot command line usually helps with booting if it’s a graphics problem.True, I had to use that with another instruction when I tried to boot a usb with Ubuntu on it and it worked.
