Intel vs AMD???

Question

Iron

I have an intel core i3 4170 processor and a radeon r7 265 graphics card (hybrid graphics). Unfortunately, when I tried to switch to Linux with such a configuration, it turned out that AMD, and especially this video card, is very poorly supported and the problems with drivers are simply huge. I was advised to just pull out the nafig video card and sit on the integrated processor graphics. In this regard, I had a question: how much worse (or maybe not) is the integrated processor graphics worse than a discrete graphics card (in this particular case)?
intel core i3 4170 vs radeon r7 265
PS Or does it still make sense to buy Nvidia?
Once again for those who do not understand. I'm interested in comparing specific models, not just integrated vs discrete graphics. For example, in my case (images are clickable): and


Is it just me, or are they basically the same?

Answer 1

Perhaps your problem can be solved by installing proprietary drivers. In extreme cases, you can simply disable the video card from Linux without any pulling.
Intel HD 4400 copes with many everyday tasks. Yes, and you can also play on it, on Windows, for example, until 2012, games on medium should go. On Linux, I don’t know, maybe the portal will not lag.
The difference in speed between the HD4400 and r7 265 is a maximum of 25% towards the reds, but this is only in games and all sorts of brands .

Answer 2

How could an embedded map be better? She is much weaker. Almost any modern discrete card will be faster than the built-in one. Although if you do not play and do not use it for graphics, then you will hardly notice anything.
Another thing, firewood, here, yes, AMD, as always, is on top with its black screens, freezes, knocking out graphics modes.
Nvidia's proprietary firewood for Pascals is also sad in Linux, but support has not yet been delivered to Nuvo and is not expected in the near future. So whatever you need.

Answer 3

In the case of AMD, they opened their raw files about 5 years ago, about half a year ago, drivers for AMD became completely open source (that is, they declared that proprietary ones were no longer supported). In the case of Nvidia, the opposite is true: About the same, by the end of 2010 everything was fine with them and there were no complaints, but then they gave up on the whole thing, they didn’t give raw materials (this is Nvidia) to anyone and realized about half a year ago ( It's not just that Linus's famous "Nvidia - f**ck u" gesture came about).
So in most cases, support for modern AMD on Linux is orders of magnitude better, but if the video is old, then vice versa - Nvidia is out of competition.
Summing up: Discrete video is an order of magnitude more powerful, and since the video is old - it makes sense to use proprietary drivers (i.e. old ones from AMD itself), as I said above - they are still available in two versions (the old one from AMD and the new open-source one). Upgrading to an Nvidia card in 2017 is extremely debatable, as their policy is that they love everything closed and invest in the community (especially by opening internal developments, aka drivers) only in extreme cases.