I just got hold of an AMD RX7800 XT to replace my current Nvidia RTX3080.

I’m likely overthinking this but from what I understand I should just be able to swap the cards then uninstall the Nvidia drivers correct?

I’m running EndeavourOS which I installed with the option to include the Nvidia drivers by default so dunno if that changes anything? I’ve been daily driving Linux for exactly a year as of this month but I still kinda feel like a newbie sometimes lmao. Thanks in advance!

(Update) I got my AMD card installed and loaded up Wayland with no issues, only thing I had to install was the AMD Vulkan drivers for Steam.

  • dinckel@lemmy.world
    24·
    9 months ago

    Short answer is that you don’t have to do anything.

    Slightly longer answer is that you can remove all existing nvidia packages, with any boot parameters they may have required, call it a day.

  • D_Air1@lemmy.ml
    141·
    9 months ago

    I’ve never done the process myself, but I would probably uninstall the nvidia drivers while the system is still running, install whatever amd packages you need I know there are some vulkan packages that people need that aren’t installed by default, and then power off and swap the cards.

    • HouseWolf@lemm.eeOPEnglish
      6·
      9 months ago

      You just got me to remember something about a Vulkan package when I first installed Steam so gonna find the AMD package for that. Thanks!

        • offspec@lemmy.world
          2·
          9 months ago

          Most distros have a vk package that steam depends on that varies based on hardware, there is a system different package for amd than Nvidia or Intel.

            • offspec@lemmy.world
              1·
              9 months ago

              I’ve encountered the issue on arch and fedora, don’t have the package name off the top of my head but both package managers ask you to pick a package to fulfill the dependency.

              • Vik@lemmy.worldEnglish
                1·
                9 months ago

                I see, appreciate the info. I’ll have a poke around on fedora later today

    • cdf12345@lemm.eeEnglish
      36·
      9 months ago

      Even if you install the drivers while the system is running, it is not recommended to remove the card while the system is running.

      • D_Air1@lemmy.ml
        4·
        9 months ago

        I never suggested that they remove the card while the system is running. You must have skipped the part in my comment that says power off and swap the cards

      • HouseWolf@lemm.eeOPEnglish
        1·
        9 months ago

        Don’t worry I wasn’t planning on sticking my hands into a powered up PC anyway haha.

  • lattrommi@lemmy.mlEnglish
    8·
    9 months ago

    There isn’t anything you need to know. It’s the opposite actually. You can now forget about graphics drivers entirely if you want. Unless it’s like, a job or hobby or something.

  • ikidd@lemmy.worldEnglish
    6·
    9 months ago

    Only that your newfound time from not having to fuck with video drivers might be enough to solve world peace.

  • zod000@lemmy.ml
    5·
    9 months ago

    I just did this with an RX7900TX and everything worked fine and I decided to install my normal updates. And then my PC wouldn’t boot. After hours of “fun”, it turns out that the issue had nothing to do with the GPU swap and all. Tons of fun!

  • utopiah@lemmy.ml
    51·
    9 months ago

    In case others are interested on the general compute aspect, e.g inference for self hosted AI, here is something related I found :

  • TheDirtyBubble@sh.itjust.works
    4·
    9 months ago

    I recently did this switch to the same card and it sounds like it was as painless for you as it was for me.

    An issue I had later on was that I still had some Nvidia packeges installed I didn’t know about after removing them with apt. I had to fully search with dpkg to find them. They ended up being the root cause of a seemingly unrelated issue I was having trying to run a game through steam. So yeah make sure to fully purge the Nvidia drivers.

  • InverseParallax@lemmy.worldEnglish
    31·
    9 months ago

    The drivers are infinitely better, and the stutter when creating a ton of windows (ie notification spam from kconnect) is basically gone.

    • HouseWolf@lemm.eeOPEnglish
      3·
      9 months ago

      Selling it to try make some money back.

      I built this PC before I even thought about switching to Linux.

      • Anticorp@lemmy.worldEnglish
        1·
        9 months ago

        I have a Aoris 3070 ti and it has been problematic with Arch KDE Plasma. I never had issues with Pop and Gnome. So I’ve been thinking about getting an AMD card too, but I bought this 3070 ti at the height of the GPU shortage and spent $1000 for the stupid thing. Idk what to do with it, because I’ll definitely never get anywhere close to that kind of money for the thing.

        • HouseWolf@lemm.eeOPEnglish
          2·
          9 months ago

          Yeah I wasn’t expecting to make most of the money back, But if I can get a bit then it’s still money towards something I will use.