Quietest AMD Vendor?

[ResonantPixel]

Does anyone have recommendations for what is the quietest GPU vendor? I am looking for an AMD card because Nvidia is a pile of bs when it come to Linux (to quote Torvolds himself "Fudge you Nvidia!") and I intent to fully have migrated to nixos by summer! (Selling EVGA 960 4gb) but I need the quietest vendor (probably looking to get either an r9 380 or r9 380x (4gb)), I want silence because my rig without GPU is literally unaudible, even without headphones! I would however like an all-black gpu as the rest of my rig is all black as well! (unfortunetely that rules out MSI). Basically silence is more important to me than temps!

 

Edit: will be using open driver, sorry should have specified (hence amd):P

Edited March 1, 2016 by ResonantPixel
forgot to specify I would be using open driver

[Citadelen]

Probably Sapphire, they have to best cooler.

[Enderman]

everyone ive talked to who is a "linux guru" says nvidia drivers work a lot better than AMD on linux

[Duskie]

Probably sapphire.

 

My ASUS R9 290X is stupidly loud, 80% fan speed and 88c.. 

[XDroidie626]

Just now, ResonantPixel said:

Does anyone have recommendations for what is the quietest GPU vendor? I am looking for an AMD card because Nvidia is a pile of bs when it come to Linux (to quote Torvolds himself "Fudge you Nvidia!") and I intent to fully have migrated to nixos by summer! (Selling EVGA 960 4gb) but I need the quietest vendor (probably looking to get either an r9 380 or r9 380x (4gb)), I want silence because my rig without GPU is literally unaudible, even without headphones! I would however like an all-black gpu as the rest of my rig is all black as well! (unfortunetely that rules out MSI). Basically silence is more important to me than temps!

I have had a lot of issues with AMD cards, specifically my R9 290 and AMD A4 APU (Laptop) with drivers not working correctly, never really had an issue with my 750ti.

I would have to say Gigabyte with their windforce GPUs, or you could put a bracket on it and get a AIO cooler, get a hw fan controller and turn them all down.

[ResonantPixel]

Just now, Enderman said:

everyone ive talked to who is a "linux guru" says nvidia drivers work a lot better than AMD on linux

Ahahaha no.

[XDroidie626]

Just now, ResonantPixel said:

Ahahaha no.

Have you tried installing the proprietary drivers? and are you using a rolling distro?.

Ubuntu with nvidia proprietary work very very well.

[ResonantPixel]

Just now, ResonantPixel said:

Ahahaha no.

I take out my gpu and nixos install without a hitch, same for arch.

[Enderman]

Just now, ResonantPixel said:

Ahahaha no.

https://www.reddit.com/r/linux/comments/3i8pi1/amd_vs_nvidia_linux_gaming_performance/

https://www.reddit.com/r/linux/comments/3rlvqt/amd_or_nvidia_for_linux_gaming/

https://www.google.ca/#q=amd+vs+nvidia+drivers+linux

seems like youre wrong...

[ResonantPixel]

Just now, Enderman said:

https://www.reddit.com/r/linux/comments/3i8pi1/amd_vs_nvidia_linux_gaming_performance/

https://www.reddit.com/r/linux/comments/3rlvqt/amd_or_nvidia_for_linux_gaming/

https://www.google.ca/#q=amd+vs+nvidia+drivers+linux

seems like youre wrong...

Open drivers, sorry should have specified :L

[ResonantPixel]

1 minute ago, XDroidie626 said:

Have you tried installing the proprietary drivers? and are you using a rolling distro?.

Ubuntu with nvidia proprietary work very very well.

Sorry I forgot to specify open drivers are the ones I intend to use!

[DocSwag]

Sapphire is the best by far.

MSI is probably next, but I'm not too sure about XFX so I can't say about them.

[don_svetlio]

Sapphire are by far the quietest and coolest. Their coolers are only beaten by the K|ngP|n and Lightning coolers.

[LAwLz]

3 minutes ago, ResonantPixel said:

Does anyone have recommendations for what is the quietest GPU vendor?

That entirely depends on which cooler you get. It's not a simple as saying "Asus is the most quiet" since Asus has several coolers which ranges from quiet to loud.

 

3 minutes ago, ResonantPixel said:

I am looking for an AMD card because Nvidia is a pile of bs when it come to Linux (to quote Torvolds himself "Fudge you Nvidia!")

Oh wow... You could not be more wrong. Torvalds was not talking about the quality of Nvidia's drivers when he said "fuck you Nvidia". He was talking about their stubbornness to not help out with getting Optimus working in GNU/Linux.

The closed source Nvidia drivers are light years ahead of the AMD ones. The AMD ones are quite frankly garbage, while the Nvidia ones are decent. In fact, it is not uncommon to see low/mid range Nvidia cards outperform the high end AMD cards under GNU/Linux (depending on task of course) just because the drivers are so much better.

[Enderman]

1 minute ago, ResonantPixel said:

Open drivers, sorry should have specified :L

oh ok then

[XDroidie626]

For FOSS drivers AMD is the better of the two yes, but I believe the 6870 is the best for FOSS drivers.

Double check the GPU against RadeonSI first, unless your willing to wait for a kernel upgrade.

Also MSI GPUs get loud, my R9 290 is MSI under load its loud.

[Citadelen]

4 minutes ago, Flitter said:

Probably sapphire.

 

My ASUS R9 290X is stupidly loud, 80% fan speed and 88c.. 

That's quite hot, running Metro: 2033 Redux at 1440p my Matrix Platinum only reaches 75°C on a mild overclock.

[79wjd]

4 minutes ago, Citadelen said:

That's quite hot, running Metro: 2033 Redux at 1440p my Matrix Platinum only reaches 75°C on a mild overclock.

The Asus DCU2 cooler on the 290 was repurposed off the GTX780 and is basically trash on the 290 being only slightly better than the reference cooler. 

[Citadelen]

Just now, djdwosk97 said:

The Asus DCU2 cooler on the 290 was repurposed off the GTX780 and is basically trash on the 290 being only slightly better than the reference cooler. 

The Matrix Platinum cooler is taken from the 780Ti, so same problem, yours seems excessively hot.

[ResonantPixel]

3 minutes ago, LAwLz said:

That entirely depends on which cooler you get. It's not a simple as saying "Asus is the most quiet" since Asus has several coolers which ranges from quiet to loud.

 

Oh wow... You could not be more wrong. Torvalds was not talking about the quality of Nvidia's drivers when he said "fuck you Nvidia". He was talking about their stubbornness to not help out with getting Optimus working in GNU/Linux.

The closed source Nvidia drivers are light years ahead of the AMD ones. The AMD ones are quite frankly garbage, while the Nvidia ones are decent. In fact, it is not uncommon to see low/mid range Nvidia cards outperform the high end AMD cards under GNU/Linux (depending on task of course) just because the drivers are so much better.

I know the "flip you Nvidia" was for optimus but I think it generally sums up their attitude to the free software community!

[79wjd]

3 minutes ago, Citadelen said:

The Matrix Platinum cooler is taken from the 780Ti, so same problem, yours seems excessively hot.

It's still a different design. The DCU2 is known to be an awful cooler on the 290/x as one of the heatpipes completely misses the 290s core. (also, i'm not the one with the 290)

[Citadelen]

1 minute ago, djdwosk97 said:

It's still a different design. The DCU2 is known to be an awful cooler on the 290/x as one of the heatpipes completely misses the 290s core. (also, i'm not the one with the 290)

Ahh I hadn't noticed, but the same issue applies, one of the heat pipes still misses the GPU core.

[Duskie]

14 minutes ago, Citadelen said:

That's quite hot, running Metro: 2033 Redux at 1440p my Matrix Platinum only reaches 75°C on a mild overclock.

Wow, I use the exact same GPU in a case with 3 120mm fans infront of the GPU's.

 

Suppose i'd better replace the thermal paste.

[nothereanymore]

3 hours ago, XDroidie626 said:

I have had a lot of issues with AMD cards, specifically my R9 290 and AMD A4 APU (Laptop) with drivers not working correctly, never really had an issue with my 750ti.

I would have to say Gigabyte with their windforce GPUs, or you could put a bracket on it and get a AIO cooler, get a hw fan controller and turn them all down.

Sounds like you're making stuff up. Anyway, Sapphire is the best. My Fury is under 100% load and it doesn't pass 34% fan speed, not even above 54C. Quiet, real quiet. So quiet my HDD is pissing me the fuck off.

[LAwLz]

14 minutes ago, ResonantPixel said:

I know the "flip you Nvidia" was for optimus but I think it generally sums up their attitude to the free software community!

Then I assume you also know that Optimus is supported both in the closed source driver (although last time I checked it was fairly clunky) and PRIME supports it with the Nouveau drivers now as well, right?

 

If you really want to use the open source drivers then I highly recommend you look up benchmarks of the specific programs you are going to use, because performance is all over the place.

What are you going to use the computer for specifically? You might be better of just using your Intel GPU.