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!!!
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.