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Swapping out my Nvida card for AMD. Anything I should know about before hand? (lemm.ee)

submitted 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) by HouseWolf@lemm.ee to c/linux@lemmy.ml

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I just got hold of an AMD RX7800 XT to replace my current Nvidia RTX3080.

I'm likely overthinking this but from what I understand I should just be able to swap the cards then uninstall the Nvidia drivers correct?

I'm running EndeavourOS which I installed with the option to include the Nvidia drivers by default so dunno if that changes anything? I've been daily driving Linux for exactly a year as of this month but I still kinda feel like a newbie sometimes lmao. Thanks in advance!

(Update) I got my AMD card installed and loaded up Wayland with no issues, only thing I had to install was the AMD Vulkan drivers for Steam.

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[–] GenderNeutralBro@lemmy.sdf.org 8 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Seems weird to replace a 3080 but hey, whatever floats your goat.

I switched from Nvidia to AMD recently. As long as you have a recent kernel you should be fine. If you're running an old/stable distro you might have issues with mesa, especially if you need OpenCL or ROCm. For general use and gaming it worked for me with no fuss.

[–] zod000@lemmy.ml 4 points 1 month ago

I just replaced my 3070 with a RX 7900XT and it was a very noticeable difference in performance. It doesn't help that my primary display is 3840x1600 though. The 3070 was never particularly great for that res.