nvidia just works better on linux. Well… I heard that’s changed so this may no longer be relevant
This isn’t and has never been the case. Nvidia and AMD are comparable performance-wise on Linux these days, but since the Nvidia drivers are proprietary, they’re automatically harder to deal with than the open-source AMD drivers. For that reason alone, AMD is easier to use with Linux out of the box, because the Linux kernel has AMD drivers built in. You still have to install userspace drivers in either case, but the open-source AMD userspace drivers have outperformed Nvidia’s proprietary drivers for a long time. It’s only been within the last couple years that Nvidia’s proprietary drivers have reached parity with AMD’s open-source ones.
Only reason I don’t is because:
nvidia just works better on linux. Well… I heard that’s changed so this may no longer be relevant
I don’t think AMD GPUs work well compared to nVidia with Davinci Resolve
DLSS/Ray Tracing. Even though I never use ray tracing because even the first card with it couldn’t handle it 😅
This isn’t and has never been the case. Nvidia and AMD are comparable performance-wise on Linux these days, but since the Nvidia drivers are proprietary, they’re automatically harder to deal with than the open-source AMD drivers. For that reason alone, AMD is easier to use with Linux out of the box, because the Linux kernel has AMD drivers built in. You still have to install userspace drivers in either case, but the open-source AMD userspace drivers have outperformed Nvidia’s proprietary drivers for a long time. It’s only been within the last couple years that Nvidia’s proprietary drivers have reached parity with AMD’s open-source ones.
I switched to AMD because nvidia worked like dogshit on Linux. Especially when I needed Wayland.
I really dunno
FSR is the replacement. But RTX would be slower on AMD but still good enough for some people.
Ray tracing is about to get WAY better with DLSS 3.5…damn it AMD, why can’t you guys have borderline useless, but also really cool features :C