Re: replacement video card

On 6/9/26 15:27, Dan Ritter wrote:
> 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.

That sounds great. Thank you.