Figured I would share this in case anyone is in the market for a new GPU.

For the last month or so, every NVIDIA driver released has been incompatible with 4000 series cards (at least when using display port). As soon as any of the last 4 driver releases are installed, the screen goes black, forcing you to boot into safe mode then roll back or uninstall the driver.

The 5000 series cards are very new - it’s crazy that the seem to have just stopped supporting 1-2 year old cards so they can focus on their new line. That being said, the new drivers are allegedly not great for the 5000 series either.

TL;DR: Consider AMD, it’ll probably work better with Linux anyways :)

    • datavoid@lemmy.mlOP
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      19 hours ago

      The driver issue was on Windows for me. Haven’t updated the Linux driver since then

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      20 hours ago

      I can say that turing cards with Linux have been unstable with the 570.124 drivers. All kinds of errors in the system logs after a short period. I had to downgrade to 570.86, and even that is problematic, though less frequently.

      Good reminder of the number of times I have I regretted going nvidia.

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    23 hours ago

    I don’t know. I haven’t any problems in 572.60 so far in my RTX 3070. Oh they released another one yesterday. What the hell is happening…

  • i_am_not_a_robot@discuss.tchncs.de
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    20 hours ago

    I had the same problem with AMD drivers on Windows. Make sure you check the filesystem after a crash while updating drivers even if Windows tells you that it’s not necessary.

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    23 hours ago

    Got 3060 in a laptop. Updating is like a box of chocolate. You never know what will break.

    On the other hand… 6800XT in my desktop. No issues whatsoever in the last 4 years. It just works since I installed it.