Retiring my RTX 3070 for an AMD RX 9060 XT (16 GiB)

I have a new graphics card for my primary desktop, the Sapphire Nitro+ AMD Radeon RX 9060 XT. This replaces my Zotac GeForce RTX 3070 Twin Edge, a card with a name that’s almost as long. The tl;dr is: it’s great, for me! This isn’t going to be a technical post laden with benchmarks; there are plenty of more qualified people you can read and watch for those. Instead, this is more of a thinking-out-loud post about the upgrade process, and how one random person with their own specific requirements found something that worked well. Having enough with the 3070 My 3070 was a decent card, and I appreciate all the fun and productivity it has enabled these past four and bit years. It was a massive upgrade from the GTX 970 I’d used before, and was my first experience with running heavier games on settings above that of “potato” (X-Plane, Train Simulator Classic, and Minecraft with shaders). Nvidia’s binary blob drivers were reliable and simple to install on FreeBSD, and even Linux played ball…