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I just got a cheap Radeon for sway and use my 2080ti with qemu and gpu passthrough, playing games on virtualized windows. Good enough for me.

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Mind sharing a bit more about which Radeon you got? And how you achieve proper gpu pass through? Do you run Windows on Qemu?

RX 580 for Sway. A RX 6800 XT would be great, but they still cost a lot. The new ones work really well with linux, is what I hear. But you should follow the latest kernel versions, due to lots of bugs being fixed at the moment by AMD.

For passthrough, just have another graphics card and follow the Arch wiki for installation. It works quite well:

https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/PCI_passthrough_via_OVMF

Thanks! I'll check out the RX 580. They're a bit more pricy now than usual even on the second hand market, I guess due to chip shortage and miners.

Yeah this is what I do as well. Really honestly surprised how good it works sometimes.

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