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I care about Gnome and Steam gaming. I don't really care that Nvidia's driver is a binary blob. If it works well, I'm fine. I know many Steam games used to only support Nvidia. Not sure if that's still the case. Would any of you recommend AMD over Nvidia (or vice versa) ?
Last edited by syxbit on 7 August 2020 at 11:29 pm UTC
Probably.
The only big issue with AMD is waiting for support to trickle down to the distros. If you're using Arch, that's less of a big deal than if you're on a slower-moving distro.
You can check benchmarks in the usual places to see the relative performance of the cards that fit in your budget.
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This is a one reason because I have nvidia card without forget nvenc because amd dont have anything similar than nvenc (cuda 11 + nvenc 10)
Last edited by mrdeathjr on 8 August 2020 at 1:06 am UTC
just for an example, AMD does very good in some games, like this benchmark of Red Dead Redemption 2, the fact that it's faster than windows drivers, demostrates that AMD drivers have come a long way.
Last edited by Koopacabras on 8 August 2020 at 3:57 am UTC
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That being said. Video recording is still terrible on AMD. Some games still have weird corner cases with AMD, driver regressions are happening, etc.. that being said.. Nvidia has also issues, but their drivers dont get updated that frequently. System freezes seem to be more common with AMD also, probably also driver/kernel related.
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For now as other said before amd recording have issues in many areas without said quality (nvenc sdk 10)
Hopefully amd can improve video recording area in future
Last edited by mrdeathjr on 9 August 2020 at 6:44 pm UTC
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I don't do video recording much, but NVENC is a lock-in API. The proper one is VAAPI. Not sure how well Nvidia supports it, AMD supports it so so. For example I still don't see hardware accelerated VP9 encoders. Looking forward to AV1 implemented in hardware.
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Nvidia drivers are great in gaming but lack a lot of flexibility. The kernel driver module needs to be recompiled with every kernel update (this can be a hassle for those who update their kernel often). Also you can only run 1 driver version at a time, with the open source drivers there is no such limitation.