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Quiet gaming capable gfx card for Debian Sid

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Hallo,

I would like to spend some hours on a normal game without having to
reboot into Windows. I have a Steam account and some Linux games are
available (at least some from Valve).

But the video card I have is not ok. It's a Nvidia Geforce 750Ti
(passive cooling), it works quite well with the Nouveau drivers but
there are too many glitches in 3D games, some are basically not
playable. I remember that Nvidia drivers (non-free) have been a lot
better but I cannot make them work with current Debian Unstable, even if
I install the latest packages from Debian Experimental, the drivers
simply don't compile with latest kernels.

This makes me think, is AMD a better alternative? I could by one, but
only if the driver support situation is acceptable. And I am not sure
WRT recent developments. There is the amdgpu driver in Sid but the list
of supported models includes only R9-280 or 290 stuff which is two years
old. And no such card on the market seems to support semi-passive
cooling. And then, there are "AMDGPU PRO" drivers on the AMD page, which
seem to be the successor of the non-free fglrx driver. But the packages
there are only made for Ubuntu.

I really don't want to troll but this makes me wonder... am I missing
something? Or does AMD give a s...t about users unless they are running
the latest Ubuntu LTS and nothing else?

And I don't like this situation. NVidia drivers basically broken, AMD
drivers basically broken, or you can buy some 3 year old hardware for
insane prices, or what else can a normal gamer do?

Regards,
Eduard.

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Quiet gaming capable gfx card for Debian Sid Eduard Bloch <edi@gmx.de> - 2016-08-13 21:00 +0200
  Re: Quiet gaming capable gfx card for Debian Sid Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> - 2016-08-13 21:30 +0200
    Re: Quiet gaming capable gfx card for Debian Sid Eduard Bloch <edi@gmx.de> - 2016-08-15 23:50 +0200
  Re: Quiet gaming capable gfx card for Debian Sid Floris <jkfloris@dds.nl> - 2016-08-14 11:10 +0200
    Re: Quiet gaming capable gfx card for Debian Sid Eduard Bloch <edi@gmx.de> - 2016-08-16 00:10 +0200
      Re: Quiet gaming capable gfx card for Debian Sid Floris <jkfloris@dds.nl> - 2016-08-17 14:40 +0200
  Re: Quiet gaming capable gfx card for Debian Sid Ric Moore <wayward4now@gmail.com> - 2016-08-14 17:10 +0200

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