My old 4790k finally died, and I need to replace both the CPU & MB. I was wondering if there would be any conflict in having an AMD CPU and an Nvidia GPU.
I want to use Bazzite on it. I’m running the same distro on my main rig and I’m very happy with it.
Any suggestions?
On Linux, AMD GPUs work significantly better than Nvidia ones. Nvidia is mostly fine though. Even Wayland works well on Nvidia now (after the 555 driver release).
Sometimes you’ll hit issues with memory management (if you have <=8GB VRAM) and may need to manually reinstall the driver after kernel updates. In theory, it’s improving as Nvidia are moving most of the driver logic into the firmware, and making the driver thinner with the new open-source out-of-tree driver (https://github.com/NVIDIA/open-gpu-kernel-modules).
For CPU, I’d definitely go with AMD instead of Intel. Intel aren’t having such a good time at the moment.
Unless you’re interested in AI stuff, then Nvidia is still the best choice. Some libraries are HW accelerated on AMD, and hopefully more will work in the future.
As with any module installed outside the kernel. If you install it via your package manager is should setup dkms to handle that for you.
Damn lies. Nvidia works like shit on Wayland and newer kernels.
It’s actually working mostly fine me now with KDE 6.2.1, kernel 6.11.3, and nvidia 5.60.something. I get janky scrolling in firefox but apart from that it’s been fine.
I found that Firefox scrolling was janky even with X11 when using a mouse. You can turn off smooth scrolling in the options, and turn off kinetic scrolling in about:config (
apz.gtk.kinetic_scroll.enabled).Working fine for me on Fedora 40 with a 6.12 kernel. You need to ensure your desktop environment is modern and supports explicit sync. KDE added support in Plasma 6.1, so Plasma 6.1 and Nvidia driver 560 or above should have no issues. I don’t use GNOME but they added support in 46.1 as far as I know.