Hey,
I've used FreeBSD for ages. Yet recently I bought a new workstation, AMD 7800 XT and was quite disappointed by the pick as I originally thought drm-61-kmod was just fine. Obviously it was not as I had troubles. Now, 15.0 is coming. I tested 15.0-alpha3 and amdgpu loaded, vkmark/glxmark show decent numbers besides a single test. It looks promising.
I have a question though as I'm no driver/drm expert. To end those days on Linux and come back to our world where everything is bright and shiny and systemd-free, do you guys consider NVIDIA (say, 4060 or so) a safer pick given the prop drivers, OR once they release 15.0/drm-66-kmod in December, AMD is always neater experience once supported. If anybody wouldn't mind saying a word about which recent AMD/NVIDIA lines you use, it'd be great. Old cards do work, I also have RX 570, which worked even years ago, but I'm (and hopefully many people) interested in not that old GPUs.
So, legacy chips are not concerned here. I need my machine for tripple-booting with Linux/Windows. I do not game on FreeBSD.
Big thanks for any experience/insight!
I've used FreeBSD for ages. Yet recently I bought a new workstation, AMD 7800 XT and was quite disappointed by the pick as I originally thought drm-61-kmod was just fine. Obviously it was not as I had troubles. Now, 15.0 is coming. I tested 15.0-alpha3 and amdgpu loaded, vkmark/glxmark show decent numbers besides a single test. It looks promising.
I have a question though as I'm no driver/drm expert. To end those days on Linux and come back to our world where everything is bright and shiny and systemd-free, do you guys consider NVIDIA (say, 4060 or so) a safer pick given the prop drivers, OR once they release 15.0/drm-66-kmod in December, AMD is always neater experience once supported. If anybody wouldn't mind saying a word about which recent AMD/NVIDIA lines you use, it'd be great. Old cards do work, I also have RX 570, which worked even years ago, but I'm (and hopefully many people) interested in not that old GPUs.
So, legacy chips are not concerned here. I need my machine for tripple-booting with Linux/Windows. I do not game on FreeBSD.
Big thanks for any experience/insight!