But will they handle my measly dirt cheap A320 mobo?
I think if you put a 5600x on it (Brian from Tech YES City has shown a 3600 works on them well enough, so I don’t see it being worse on a 5600x given it’s more efficient), a 6800/3070 might not be terrible.
It’s admittedly a niche concern, but AMD is much more Linux friendly, because:
- They open sourced their drivers, which means
- When installing Linux you get the “correct” AMD drivers right out of the box, and
- AMD actually works with Linux graphics devs to fix issues and align the drivers with the advances in the Linux tech stack
Contrast this to Nvidia, which tosses a driver binary over the wall which legally can’t be bundled with Linux (meaning you have to install it yourself) and has been actively obstructive to Linux development in both its extreme secrecy and dismissive attitude toward the platform (the latter of which is ironic, considering how many of their high end CUDA/compute users run Linux).
So when buying GPUs I tend to lean toward AMD so long as they have a card somewhere in the same ballpark as the Nvidia card that I would be buying. The exacts aren’t clear yet but I think it’s fairly safe to say that even if the new RX 6xxx cards aren’t perfectly up to par with RTX 3xxx they’re close enough to meet that criteria.