GPU 2025-Back Friday Edition

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Well we’re coming upon the most wonderful time of the year, and I’m looking for advise on a new GPU. It’s for a very fast Linux desktop PC, and the GPU is really only for use in darktable.

When I built the PC at the end of 2024, I ran without a dedicated GPU for a while, and then installed an Intel B580. It’s not a stable solution, after a short period of time working with OpenCL enabled in darktable, the machine locks up requiring a hard reboot.

I’d like to get something in the $600 range, don’t know if I should go AMD or Nvidia, and looking for advice.

Here’s the system spec’s:

Operating System: Aurora 42
KDE Plasma Version: 6.4.5
KDE Frameworks Version: 6.19.0
Qt Version: 6.9.2
Kernel Version: 6.16.8-200.fc42.x86_64 (64-bit)
Graphics Platform: Wayland
Processors: 24 × AMD Ryzen 9 9900X 12-Core Processor
Memory: 64 GiB of RAM (60.4 GiB usable)
Graphics Processor 1: Intel® Arc
Graphics Processor 2: AMD Radeon Graphics
Manufacturer: Gigabyte Technology Co., Ltd.
Product Name: B650 AORUS ELITE AX

Many thanks, as always.

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I built about a year ago with an nvidia 3090 12gb. It is plenty fast and I’m now editing files from the gfx 100s ii.

Of course I’m still on x11, so nvidia drivers are fine. I don’t love nvidia but I have work to do today (and for the last year).

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Nvidia. Look at what your power supply can handle first

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I am a happy AMD camper.

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1000W Corsair

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way more attention needs to be paid if you buy a Nvidia card with that 12V HPW adapter or with old school 3x8pin.

the former is a “oh sometimes i burn myself up” plug.

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As far as I understood from the actual line of GPUs the NVIDIA 5060 Ti with 16GB of VRAM is a very efficient (2x8pins if I am correct) and acceptably priced card. It should be well below your price point.

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I think this card might be good enough for darktable.

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Even my AMD Radeon RX 9070 XT seems to cope to some extent with darktable.

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I had configured a new computer 2 months ago and am running

Operating System: CachyOS Linux
KDE Plasma Version: 6.5.1
KDE Frameworks Version: 6.19.0
Qt Version: 6.10.0
Kernel Version: 6.17.7-2-cachyos (64-bit)
Graphics Platform: Wayland
Processors: 32 × AMD Ryzen 9 9950X 16-Core Processor
Memory: 64 GiB of RAM (62.4 GiB usable)
Graphics Processor: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5070 Ti
Manufacturer: Gigabyte Technology Co., Ltd.
Product Name: B850 AORUS ELITE WIFI7

The Card does not even sweat when exporting or editing 24MP RAWs.

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OP, look at more than just hardware. OpenCL driver support is very important. Nvidia opencl seems to result in the least amount of user issues for dt.

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Gigabyte has a2 fan option https://www.newegg.com/gigabyte-windforce-gv-n506twf2oc-16gd-geforce-rtx-5060-ti-16gb-graphics-card-double-fans/p/N82E16814932790
Asus has a 3 fan option:
https://www.newegg.com/asus-prime-rtx5060ti-16g-geforce-rtx-5060-ti-16gb-graphics-card-triple-fans/p/N82E16814126791

Both are at the same price. One better than the other?
Any other manufacturers I that might be a better choice?

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A bit more than I want to spend :money_mouth_face:

$1299 USD at B&H

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you can look at the 90[67]0 (XT/non-XT) instead

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Yes, better price range.
https://www.newegg.com/asrock-challenger-rx9070xt-cl-16g-radeon-rx-9070-xt-16gb-graphics-card-triple-fans/p/N82E16814930145 at about $600USD looks like a fit taking up 2 slots and my power supply should handle adding it in. Spec’s don’t list OpenCL support, assuming the chip offers it, and it was ommited because mktg dept didn’t think it was worth mentioning. Thanks

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Yes it offers it.

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