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Having owned a few NVIDIA cards (and using now a RX580), I can say that I will avoid NVIDIA. Buggiest drivers(Linux) and strange artifacts and tears, even for d
by Zardoz84 6y ago
Having owned a few NVIDIA cards (and using now a RX580), I can say that I will avoid NVIDIA. Buggiest drivers(Linux) and strange artifacts and tears, even for day to day work. And the drivers are closed source.
- shrimp_emoji 6y agoThe Nvidia open source drivers (Nouveau) are awful (which is Nvidia's fault), but the proprietary drivers are decent IME. G-SYNC works out of the box (unlike FreeSync) in Linux, and Nvidia even has a nifty control panel app. But it is a hassle having to worry about having proprietary drivers in-situ during installation or else your G-SYNC monitor won't work or when your G-SYNC monitor doesn't work if you switch to an AMD GPU. ; p (Yes, the ones with the dedicated G-SYNC hardware, which aren't all G-SYNC monitors, brick when not plugged into an Nvidia card.)
- snvzz 6y ago>or else your G-SYNC monitor won't work or when your G-SYNC monitor doesn't work if you switch to an AMD GPU. ; p (Yes, the ones with the dedicated G-SYNC hardware, which aren't all G-SYNC monitors, brick when not plugged into an Nvidia card.) This is intentional, by design. It's called vendor lock-in. NVIDIA abused their position at the time to plant g-sync screens everywhere. Of course, later they had to adopt FreeSync like everybody else (TVs and Monitors across the industry, with HDMI and DisplayPort, Intel and AMD, on consoles and computers), but there's a significant base of sold screens with gsync modules that will tilt many GPU purchases to the NVIDIA side. Even when they adopted FreeSync, they pressured screen vendors to use their own "gsync compatible" name for the same technology, by leveraging their market position.