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Swapping out my Nvida card for AMD. Anything I should know about before hand? (lemm.ee)

submitted 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) by HouseWolf@lemm.ee to c/linux@lemmy.ml

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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.

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[–] dinckelman@lemmy.world 38 points 1 month ago (2 children)

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.

[–] sanpo@sopuli.xyz 14 points 1 month ago

Yep. When I switched out my Nvidia for AMD it was as plug-and-play as it gets.

[–] 30p87@feddit.org 3 points 1 month ago

Also, install the generic or AMD specific packages now. Eg. vulkan-radeon or amdvlk instead of nvidia-utils (https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Vulkan)