The best GPU for the build

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bamy88

So i'm gonna build dedicated computer just for using FreeBSD as a main home computer. I wonder which is the best GPU possible for it to run smoothly. I had a nvidia 4060 and had nothing bot trouble. It was stuttering and sound was a mess. So i'd look to use something different. I dont care about performance since it's gonna be used only for normal everyday use. I need it to run smooth as butter.

Currently using radeon 9070xt since it's not supported yet im forced to be using Linux Void.
 
What do you want to do with your computer?
My i5-1334U's small GPU is great for many tasks. Almost for modeling with Blender. Too slow for texturing/rendering...
I've worked as 3d artist in the archiviz with a RX 5600 without any problem.
 
I have Nvidia, Radeon, and iGPU systems. They all work rather nicely with FreeBSD. But the machine that I use the most uses the RX 6400. It's super low power and works nicely with Wayland. And it can game on new titles which is nice. :D
 
GPU: Intel Iris Xe Graphics [Integrated],
15.0-RELEASE-p1

The best graphical benchmark for me is vertical scrolling in Firefox. In Wayland it smooth but in X is not. I use only Wayland compositors (sway currently) because of that.
 
bda65 said:
What do you want to do with your computer?
My i5-1334U's small GPU is great for many tasks. Almost for modeling with Blender. Too slow for texturing/rendering...
I've worked as 3d artist in the archiviz with a RX 5600 without any problem.
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Everything but gaming, office work, videos, browsing, youtube,....
 
shkhln said:
How exactly the sound was a mess with Nvidia? I've yet to see a single complaint about quality of its HDMI/DisplayPort sound output.
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Thread 'Cracklin sound and HDMI video'

Hey fellas.

I've been on/off freebsd user for about 20 years now. I don't like linux kernel so im stuck with using either windows or fbsd. I would really like to switch to FreeBSD using it as my main and only OS because i simply love the bsd enviroment. But i got a problem, which is driving me nuts and keeping me away from migrating to fbsd!

Whenever im watching a youtube video and doing other works, sound is crackling everytime i do something, wether be switching betwen programs, moving windows around the desktop, opening programs, browsing the web. Every mouse move the sound crackles...

This was my problem. And this is keeping me away from FBSD.
 
bamy88 said:
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Thread 'Cracklin sound and HDMI video'

Hey fellas.

I've been on/off freebsd user for about 20 years now. I don't like linux kernel so im stuck with using either windows or fbsd. I would really like to switch to FreeBSD using it as my main and only OS because i simply love the bsd enviroment. But i got a problem, which is driving me nuts and keeping me away from migrating to fbsd!

Whenever im watching a youtube video and doing other works, sound is crackling everytime i do something, wether be switching betwen programs, moving windows around the desktop, opening programs, browsing the web. Every mouse move the sound crackles...

This was my problem. And this is keeping me away from FBSD.
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Weird, sounds like a grounding issue when working with sound hardware. I've had that with bad power supply or bad caps on a motherboard too. But since this is a reproducible error it just makes it strange. Sounds like some kind of audio sampling rate issue with buffering in the hardware audio processor.

Try this:

NapoleonWils0n

Thread 'Chromium audio popping, fix it by changing the sndiod rate to 44100'

I had terrible audio popping with Chromium which use sndiod audio

The fix is to change the sndiod sample rate to 44100 from the default 44800

as mentioned in this post by patovm04

forums.freebsd.org

Chromium audio

With Teams, neither the microphone nor the speaker can be changed. Is this normal? www/chromium only in this topic, please.
forums.freebsd.org forums.freebsd.org

Code: 
sudo sysrc sndiod_enable="YES"
sudo sysrc sndiod_flags="-r 44100"

or manually edit the config file

Code: 
sudo vi /etc/rc.conf

and add the following code

Code: 
sndiod_enable="YES"
sndiod_flags="-r 44100"

reboot for good measure

open Chromium play a video and you should have no more audio popping
cheers to patovm04 for the...

Code:

Code: 
sudo sysrc sndiod_enable="YES"<br>sudo sysrc sndiod_flags="-r 44100"



Code:


Code: 
sudo vi /etc/rc.conf



Code:


Code: 
sndiod_enable="YES"<br>sndiod_flags="-r 44100"


reboot for good measure
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yup tried even that. and the thing is when i'm using a sound device, for example watching youtube, whenever i move something on the desktop sound crackles, even if i just change the volume it crackles. does that everywhere, kde, gnome, xfce,...

i've ordered some older supported radeon card and gonna try that, because even on linux, nvidia wasn't smooth.
 
bamy88 have you tried an external audio interface? If that's all that keeps you away from what you want.

OT: I personally would avoid nvidia and go for AMD or Intel. IMHO a nvidia card is asking for trouble. Dropped support of old cards on Linux is a recent one. (Thoud they where fairly old). But the list just goes on. AMD or Intel whould be my choise, but I don't game on PC and I certainly don't use Windows.

iGPU can come a long way, but my laptop struggles with youtube a bit, because the iGPU doesn't support the video encoding. (i7 10th gen) It eats up a lot of the system in my opinion. I don't run FreeBSD on it, but this youtube "problem" is a hardware limitation.
 
Gert-Jan said:
bamy88 have you tried an external audio interface? If that's all that keeps you away from what you want.

OT: I personally would avoid nvidia and go for AMD or Intel. IMHO a nvidia card is asking for trouble. Dropped support of old cards on Linux is a recent one. (Thoud they where fairly old). But the list just goes on. AMD or Intel whould be my choise, but I don't game on PC and I certainly don't use Windows.

iGPU can come a long way, but my laptop struggles with youtube a bit, because the iGPU doesn't support the video encoding. (i7 10th gen) It eats up a lot of the system in my opinion. I don't run FreeBSD on it, but this youtube "problem" is a hardware limitation.
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External as in USB? No nothing like that, just mobo sound and pcie card.
I am currently using RX7600, but i can't seem to set it up to run xorg. Followed the Handbook to the letter and no screens found. So i'm guessing the card is not yet supported.

Yeah really not interested in iGPU setup.
 
I also have a 9070XT with similar issues, am wondering whether you experienced a crash or if it is just not working for you at high resolution. Am going to try the onboard GPU although mobo is recent so that might be unsupported.
 
Berko said:
I also have a 9070XT with similar issues, am wondering whether you experienced a crash or if it is just not working for you at high resolution. Am going to try the onboard GPU although mobo is recent so that might be unsupported.
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I never to manage to make it work with amdgpu driver. So i bought RX7600 and now everything works
 
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