I am going to buy a new graphics card and can’t choose between Nvidia and AMD. I know that Nvidia has bad reputation in Linux community but how really it works? And I heard recently their drivers got better. What can you recommend?

P. S. I don’t want any proprietary drivers (so I am talking about Nouveau or any other FOSS Nvidia driver if it exists)

  • theunknownmuncher@lemmy.world
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    11 days ago

    I don’t want any proprietary drivers

    So then you don’t want any NVIDIA.

    The AMD open source Linux driver performs better than their Windows driver. And there is no proprietary AMD Linux driver, the official AMD driver for Linux is open source.

  • deadbeef79000@lemmy.nz
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    10 days ago

    The nouveau drivers are just barely enough to have a desktop, anything actually needing a GPU will perform very poorly (in my anecdotal experience with 4K). Or, to put it another way, choosing an NVIDIA card is choosing their proprietary drivers.

    So you’re left with AMD (and Intel). The open amdgpu driver is pretty good and is suitable for gaming. Which I do.

    I have no experience with Intel, but I believe their open drivers are pretty good.

    So I recommend AMD.

  • Nibodhika@lemmy.world
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    10 days ago

    I don’t want any proprietary drivers (so I am talking about Nouveau or any other FOSS Nvidia driver if it exists)

    In that case AMD, no doubt about it.

    If you were considering proprietary drivers it would still be AMD but there would be some discussion about it.