So NVIDIA just doesn’t cut it on Linux/proton I’ve come to learn. Looking at the best bang//buck, it this the AMD card people are flocking to? 7800 XT maybe?
Nvidia on Linux is improving fast these days
It’s not actually that big a difference. I haven’t had as many bugs with my AMD card (7800xt), and i do VRR on Wayland, but some games aren’t optimized as well for it as its Nvidia equivalent.
Primarily use AMD graphics. My key issue on linux is the GPU reset situation, which can make experiences like VFIO and LookingGlass less than optimal, though there seems to be some commitment from all IHVs to improve desktop expeirence under Linux.
AMD and Valve work fairly closely on such endeavours which is neat, though we also have nvidia getting their shit together for Wayland and now offering an open kernel module (even in lieu of open, first party UMDs, for which the NVK driver is well worth investigating).
The open kernel module and NVK driver are applicable to Turing (your current GPU) and newer. Check them out.
You don’t owe it to anybody to align to a given vendor, just use what works best for you at a price point that doesn’t suck. If there are any specific use cases you’d like to know about then I’m sure the people here would be happy to test and report back.
Pop! OS with an RTX 3080 has been rock solid for me.
I have Nvidia and now that explicit sync is out my system runs incredibly smoothly. Every game I have tried works great.
