Any success stories upgrading to RTX 3000 series?

Clokwork

I'm hoping to know if there are any that have had display or display tech related issues, but can safely use a Nvidia RTX 3000 series card with no issues or no additional issues.

JTL

I realize its apples to oranges and not applicable to the title of the topic, but back in 2020 I purchased a Radeon Pro W5500 for my new workstation and I can confirm that a) it uses no temporal dithering by default and b) It's a usable system under Linux with a good monitor, no noisy output.

Be warned. This is not a blanket recommendation for all AMD cards, and while I do not have any empirical data. I suspect something similar could be going on with recent Nvidia cards.

At least its encouraging that there are theoretically more "safer" cards than the usual picks here that can handle higher framerate applications and higher resolution monitors.

Clokwork

JTL Thanks for the input. I am trying to gather data to determine wether I will get a 3070 or wait until Intel releases their discrete cards and test one out. Right now I am in the phase where "if it isn't broke, don't fix it" where my 1070 still works just fine. I just don't want to be stuck in the past forever if I don't have to.

glvn

JTL

I purchased a Radeon Pro W5500 for my new workstation and I can confirm that a) it uses no temporal dithering by DEFAULT and b) It's a usable system under Linux with a good monitor, no noisy output.

If I understand correctly, the Radeon pro uses a different version of the driver(from the desktop graphics cards) ?

Is there an GUI option in the pro version of the driver(similar to the NV quadro) to explicitly control dithering?

Multi1978

Hello - i have display tech related issues and can use a ASUS TUF Gaming 3080 OC

Clokwork

Multi1978 Thanks for the feedback! Do you have any clue at all what display tech is causing issues for you?

HAL9000

I have problems with a 3060ti for a couple months which has the same GPU chip as the 3070.

I've tried 3 different screens, multiple screen settings and drivers on W10 and W11. I can now use it for longer than i could on day 1 but I still get migraine pain within a few minutes of using it, the pain afterwards doesnt last as long anymore but its not really sustanable. I try to use it at least an hour a day in an attempt to get used to it but I dont think its working.

JTL

glvn This was tested under Linux, and Radeon and their Pro version both use the same amdgpu driver by default. Don't know about Windows.

glvn

JTL Radeon and their Pro version both use the same amdgpu driver by default.

does amdgpu-driver have options to control dithering explicitly ?

JTL

glvn That is a question with a complicated answer.

For certain older cards under Linux there is an explicit setting to control dithering, but for "newer" cards there is no such setting.

However while my tests aren't entirely conclusive I have a certain RX 580 card that has dithering on by default which is even visible in the BIOS screen before any operating system driver would have relevance. On the other hand in my work computer I have a Radeon Pro W5500 and have tested it to never have dithering in the BIOS or even while running under Linux. This is despite the fact the amdgpu driver does not expose the dithering setting for this model of GPU.

I think there are two aspects to the equation here. Some cards have dithering forced on by the VBIOS and even in the case of having a software solution like ditherig to disable it, any change internally by the card VBIOS or graphics driver issues can sabotage it.

smilem

I tested on old and new laptops ditherig does not work in Windows 7, Windows 10.

Those laptops that have CCFL backlight does not dither, others that are LED do dither but screen does not flicker from back light.