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NVIDIA Drops Pascal Support On Linux, Causing Chaos On Arch Linux (hackaday.com)

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[–] GenderNeutralBro@lemmy.sdf.org 2 points 9 hours ago* (last edited 3 hours ago) (1 children)

Hard to say what the used market is like, but the cheapest cards that would be broadly similar in performance would probably be the Arc A580, RX 5700 or RX 6600. This page has some rankings that are reasonable for comparison: https://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/gpu-hierarchy,4388-2.html

But...surely there's a way to just stick with the latest supported driver, right? Or is Arch truly an "upgrade or die" distro?

[–] muhyb@programming.dev 1 points 2 hours ago

Thanks for the comparison. It seems RX 6600 seems the most suitable option since the second hand prices for 5700 and 6600 are quite close. Probably GTX 1080 can compensate most of it.

Well, currently I'll have to switch the AUR driver and will have to stick to it for a while until I find a good candidate. I would expect them to make it at least legacy driver so we don't have to hoop around though. It's not usually like this but this is a big change (thanks Nvidia) and Arch team made a big change too, so usual update would break my system it would seem.