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Should I switch to amd? (beehaw.org)

submitted 9 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I have been considering selling my 3060 ti and buying a 6700 xt for a while now. The main reasons are (potentially) switching to wayland, +4 gb of vram, hardware acceleration in firefox (and steam too, it's leaking vram for me with nvidia), potentially vr on linux with my quest 2 (a lot of things in alvr seem to be locked for nvidia) and better compatibility with linux in general. I don't really care for productivity or rtx and dlss (it's not like they work in most games anyway). The upgrade would cost me at most $75.

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 9 months ago (1 children)

I woukd wait a bit longer for a real upgrade.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago (1 children)

I don't consider this an upgrade, it's more of a switch. The 6700 xt new is almost the same price I can sell the 3060 ti for. I won't be upgrading for at least 5 years.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 9 months ago

If you ever plan on using a GPU as more than a toy for running games, then stick with Nvidia, though tbf there's not a whole lot you could do with 8GB.