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In fact, when buying graphics cards I am looking much more on the driver support than on the pure FPS performance. I have a Dell XPS with NVIDIA graphics and an
by arendtio 8y ago
In fact, when buying graphics cards I am looking much more on the driver support than on the pure FPS performance. I have a Dell XPS with NVIDIA graphics and an AMD RX460 in my desktop PC.
And in my experience, the NVIDIA driver landscape is just a mess. The state of Nouveau can be obtained from the article above and the proprietary driver causes all kinds of weird issues (e.g. UI spinners rotating at different speeds, fans turning faster than they are supposed to be, etc.). On the other hand, the (open source) AMD driver seems to have evolved quite well over the last years.
As a result, I hate my NVIDIA card and like my AMD card quite much. Every time I see those steam survey results I wonder why there are still so many people buying NVIDIA cards for their Linux boxes. They probably just trust the benchmarks and don't compare the experience first hand.