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Great card, if a bit more expensive than I would like. I replaced an Nvidia RTX 3070 blower-style card with this, and the difference is night and day. Perf is way up, noise is way down, and graphics driver issues are (to my pleasant surprise) way down too. I've been running Nvidia on Linux since ~2011, and finally got fed up with the driver issues. I'm currently running the new card in "quiet" mode on Linux Mint 22.2, and everything worked right out of the box; swapped cards, booted up, done. I can play Satisfactory and Witcher 3 at 4k, ultra, and no up-scaling via Steam Proton at a steady 60+ Hz, and the the card is virtually silent. Freesync works perfectly, where as the previous Nvidia would always tear. Perf does take a pretty big hit with ray tracing and/or global illumination turned on though. They would probably be fine with up-scaling or frame-gen, but I prefer native res. Read more