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
    51•19 hours 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.

    • @[email protected]
      22•17 hours ago

      there is no proprietary AMD Linux driver

      I mean, there is. It just isn’t recommended for most users.

      • @[email protected]
        1•12 hours ago

        didn’t know this. is it no good then? does it have the HDMI 2.1 driver missing from the open source driver?

        • lime!English
          8•11 hours ago

          the driver is called AMDGPU PRO. it sits on top of the normal driver, and contains stuff specific to high performance compute and workstation workloads. i think it’s a requirement for properly fast ROCm but i’m not sure.