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How's Nvidia GPUs in Linux nowadays? (suppo.fi)

submitted 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) by FrostyPolicy@suppo.fi to c/linuxquestions@lemmy.zip

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Been using AMD gpus for years due to their superb Linux support. Would like to play around with AI image generation completely offline so a Nvidia gpu is kinda must. Besides that I do some gaming as well.

Currently I have AMD RX 6750 XT and am considering replacing it with a RTX 5060 TI with 16 GB vram. How well does Nvidia gpus work in modern Linux systems. I'm running Tumbleweed with KDE plasma on X11.

Other hardware is Ryzen 7 7700X and an Asrock B650 PG Lightning motherboard.

Edit: Been using InvokeAI so far but cpu only is super slow.

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[–] verdi@tarte.nuage-libre.fr 2 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

Utter shait ~ 30-50% worse performance, so you'd be looking at a downgrande after spending all that money. And that's on bleeding edge like Cachy, go with mint or similar and the differential is even worse. I would hold off on upgrading for the next 1-2 years, it'll be dirt cheap once the bubble inevitably bursts.

edit: Dafuq u doing using cpu only on invoke, it supports AMD GPUs out of the box without 0 user intervention other than selecting AMD GPU during Installation...

[–] FrostyPolicy@suppo.fi 2 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

Wish it was that simple. If I select AMD device to use it won't work. It crashes with: RuntimeError: HIP error: invalid device function.

Edit: Have a feeling it might be trying to use the igpu for some reason.

[–] verdi@tarte.nuage-libre.fr 2 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Just checked RDNA2 may not be fully supported HIP. Check this REDDIT guide for llama based adventures.

Did u run

rocm-smi

to check if you have rocm installed?

Check this issue at invoke's hub for your same problem.

critically, don't forget:

#!/bin/bash

export HSA_OVERRIDE_GFX_VERSION=10.3.0

bash invoke.sh

Regarding upgrades

The 9060XT would be a much better choice than the 5060 if one uses Linux and is upgrading, although, seeing price trends lately, nothing looks like a good choice at all at the moment. Maybe a second hand 7800xt, that would be a 20-30% upgrade.

[–] FrostyPolicy@suppo.fi 1 points 1 month ago

Did u run
rocm-smi

It gives:

========================================== ROCm System Management Interface ==========================================
==================================================== Concise Info ====================================================
Device  Node  IDs              Temp    Power    Partitions          SCLK    MCLK     Fan  Perf  PwrCap  VRAM%  GPU%
(DID,     GUID)  (Edge)  (Avg)    (Mem, Compute, ID)
======================================================================================================================
0       1     0x73df,   60335  40.0°C  8.0W     N/A, N/A, 0         500Mhz  96Mhz    0%   auto  220.0W  19%    0%
1       2     0x164e,   6110   39.0°C  29.047W  N/A, N/A, 0         N/A     3000Mhz  0%   auto  N/A     4%     0%
======================================================================================================================
================================================ End of ROCm SMI Log =================================================

[–] FrostyPolicy@suppo.fi 1 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

You're a life saver! Did the force reinstall mentioned in that github issue and ran Invoke with the command you provided. Now it runs with gpu rendering 🥳. Though I ran out of vram 🤣.

[–] verdi@tarte.nuage-libre.fr 1 points 1 month ago

I'm happy it worked, props to the people helping on github, they're the real heroes here, I'm just the messenger! Have fun m8!