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)

  • @[email protected]
    27•21 hours ago

    there is no proprietary AMD Linux driver

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

    • @[email protected]
      2•15 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
        10•14 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.