Re: replacement video card

Eben King wrote: 
> Hi, I have Debian 12 "Bookworm" currently, and my video card is an Nvidia
> GTX 970.  While I'm happy with its speed, I'm not happy with the proprietary
> nature of its driver, nor its brokenness (1).  So, I seek a replacement card
> whose driver is in the mainline kernel (2).  I've heard AMD and Intel GPUs
> are generally not bad.  Do you have any further recommendations or
> anti-recommendation?  Thanks.
> 
> 1: Its fans don't work, so I wrote a script to modulate the case fans and
> CPU throttle based on its temperature.
> 
> 2: If you wish to recommend a particular card, keep in mind that cheap is
> imperative (like <$150 cheap), used is OK, and I have three monitors.

I'm using an AMD RX580 to drive a 4K, a 1920x1200 and a
1920x1080 monitor on Debian stable. They typically come with one
HDMI and 3 DisplayPort connectors; there are reasonably cheap
connectors for DP->HDMI or DVI.

Newegg has some available in the $110-140 range, mostly from
vendors nobody has ever heard of.

Uses the open amdgpu driver and the firmware-amd-graphics package.

-dsr-