If I was looking for a top of the line card I would dig in and learn everything there is to know about graphics cards to make an informed decision. When it comes to buying a run of the mill card, its hard to get that excited!
Not sure what I’ll buy yet, but you’ve pointed out what I need to look for. Thanks!
RX580 is usually mentioned as high value. There are various port configurations that include 3 HDMI connections. I have no experience running it myself, but have been doing a bunch of research recently while looking at what to get for a workstation. The 580 comes up a lot.
I would look at one of the lower end Intel Arc GPUs. The support is pretty good at this point, especially if you aren’t gaming. They’re a good value, don’t use much power, and you won’t be missing modern features like AV1 encoding/decoding. Since they’re quite new they should have support for a while.
If you don’t mind used, RX 460/560 will do what you need and don’t require any power from a PSU. There are loads of them on Ebay for well under 100. Now that I’m looking, the RX 570s are well below 100 now as well. Good time to get an ultra budget Linux gaming machine built. But those require an 8 pin PSU lead, I believe.
Nvidia drivers are fine on Linux. There may be contention with how the are distributed (closed source) but as far as installing them and using them, it’s trivial at the point.
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