Hello everyone. Black Friday is approaching, and I’d like to upgrade my GPU.

I currently have an GTX 1070, running it on Arch Linux, but I’ve never run into an issue of any kind. Graphics are what I expect. Frame rates dont show any noticeable drop or stutter. Still, whenever I see GPUs being discussed, I always see people say AMD GPUs are better on Linux because their drivers are open source as opposed to Nvidia’s, which are proprietary.

The only other area I can see your specific GPU being an issue is with video editing, which I do occasionally do. I dont remember the exact issue, but with the free version of DaVinci Resolve, apparently some video codex are suppored depending on your GPU? (Someone correct me on that because I’m pretty sure I got something wrong there.)

I don’t have a specific GPU in mind, but if there’s a general consensus that AMD GPUs are better on Linux, I would definitely pay a little more for better compatibility on my system.

Any input is appreciated. Thank you in advance!!!

  • Chais@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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    10 months ago

    The most notable difference is probably Wayland support, which is trivial for AMD and nonexistent for Nvidia. For desktop applications it mostly doesn’t matter right now. Most games don’t support Wayland, yet, but thanks to gamescope that’s not an issue. Performance-wise AMD seems to nearly match and occasionally slightly outperform Nvidia for rasterisation, while Nvidia has a clear lead in ray-tracing. But AMD does that for around 80% of the price and on a lower energy budget.

  • darkades94BEnglish
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    10 months ago

    My new AMD card is better even in desktop experience than the RTX 2060 I had… AMD just works good on Linux out of the box, it’s smooth, you do not even have to do anything at all.

  • Zicoxy3BEnglish
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    10 months ago

    Hello
    I like Nvidia and I had a gtx1060.
    Every now and then I suffered from flickering. It was easily solved, but you have to change the option every so often.
    Occasionally, an Nvidia driver update would break my system and I never managed to restore it. With Wayland, I had more performance problems.
    In this time I have used Mint, Debian, Nobara and now Fedora.
    I decided to get a new Radeon RX7600 a few months ago and I couldn’t be happier. Open-source driver and embedded in the kernel. No control panels. It just works…
    If I change distro, I know it’s fully compatible by simply installing the distro. Nothing else…
    AMD is doing well for gnu/linux. Nvidia limits some of their technology to new models, for example DLSS. However AMD with its FSR (similar to Nvidia’s DLSS) you can use it on any card because it doesn’t depend on the hardware, but on the game.
    These are nuances that tip the side towards AMD. Also the price/performance is significantly cheaper.