AMD or Nvidia If You Are a Linux User?

Let the flame wars start AMD or Nvidia? Which one is the way to go if you are a Linux user? Let's talk about it shall we?

[Henk]

NVidia lost me as a customer because of Linux. They have the best DX11 and the fastest OpenGL stack by a mile. So indeed if you want raw gaming performance, do a lot with machine learning or need a good hardware encoder they can be interesting.

But the reason to give all that up is their cheating drivers that cause a shitload of issues. They have the fastest drivers but certainly not properly compatible ones turning my favorite DE (KDE, and i originally had it on deepin to) into a buggy mess. AMD cards just work but usually take a year to be fully stable on the mesa driver. Their propriatary driver is solely focussed on the enterprise making it less suitable for gaming especially since their OpenGL driver is slow both on Windows and on Linux. But luckily for us by default you are using the much faster Mesa OpenGL driver which for me personally is the best stack you can use on Linux. It will likely fully support OpenGL 4.6 soon and its both speedy and highly compatible. No fluff, just gaming. Although on older distro's like Ubuntu 18.04 you may need to install a newer kernel and mesa before your card really runs well. But on new releases it will just work beautifully.

And while AMD doesn't have the optimization on Windows that Nvidia has i have been getting mostly great performance (With some exceptions like CEMU where nvidias driver cheating really helps) and the drivers have been really stable for me.

[paperandpavement]

Hey man im making the leap to linux so i just wanted to say thank you for the information. I appreciate creators like you that are just spreading knowledge. 🙂👍

[LaSpookyPR]

Instead of saying yes across the board yes across the mother board excuse my shitty humor I’m a mom

[justinTime]

When I see this guy I am in no doubt that he uses Linux

[fredrik]

Tried an AMD card first one in years a 5700xt just too see how they are now, since everyone has been praising amd for linux. It was a total catastrophe, crashing in ui and games crashed every 10 min or didnt start at all. Spent a month trying difference distros and drivers constantly, got it so it will just crash about once an hour eventually, but some games still didnt start. Got tired of it and returned the card and got a slightly more expensive 2070 super nvidia card and everything just worked great, and temps went for 90-100c in games to 70c in games, and no more airplane sounding fans. Later AMD admitted they had a hardware error on the 5700xt cards and disabled dma in the drivers but that only helped some of the users and performance dropped in games .

[kaspersergej]

Bought a 5500 xt and never-ending list of issues arised. Tried with F32, RHEL 8.2, Ubuntu 20.04. Finally got it barely working on 18.04. Having glitches randomly. No issues with Windows.

[lemler]

personally, I have never had an issue with the green team on Linux. They actually have some pretty good documentation on their website about Linux support that no one ever seems to mention. not saying I'm a fanboy, their marketing strategies are questionable at best and Nvidia Optimus does suck, this is a fact

[TLOH]

Okay, eh, not a gamer here but I have a Nvidia Quadro K2200 4GB and a KVM connected to it. I'm currently running 4 monitors at the same time. Thing is, I want to switch from Windows to a Linux distro, probably Ubuntu or kali. Will this affect the use of my KVM and 4 monitors? I'd really appreciate if you could clear out the doubts. Thanks!

[CrustyAbsconder]

You did not mention if Wayland was your thing, which one would you choose.

You did not mention which models were good choices for Linux ?

RX590 vs 5700?

[librequestpodcast]

In my experience Nvidia products work better with more titles than AMD. But AMD wins in my opinion because of the driver support and their prices are pretty good too.

[AdilAlsuhaim]

I use Ubuntu, and sometimes updates to NVIDIA drivers break the GUI environment, and I have to go through the command-line to fix it. I heard that AMD supports Linux systems better.

[IgnoreMyChan]

Pro-tip: Your pop-filter isn't working. Move the mic further away from your mouth and/or filter the lower frequencies. It's absolutely terrible with a sub-woofer or good headphones. :-(

[sistemasycomputacion]

Go 2021 news extra extra!!
Intel buys Nvidia and Microsoft buys Wordpress!!
Linux users love AMD!! 😊😀😁😃☺😆

[namaanda]

I'm confused that my amd graphics drivers inside my ubuntu are not detected. And then I install Android x86 and test it with some 3d games, then found out that it passed the test....

(On linux it won't detect opencl on Blender, so yeah the drivers are not plug n play on my case... Tried to fix it, but no luck whatsoever)

[hemanthkumarHere]

I had a dual graphics laptop with AMD Trinity, when i got it, most distros refused to boot, slowly the support came but still i had to install proprietary drivers just to get proper power management, i had to choose between a glicthy laptop and a hot laptop.
Currently i use an intel + nvidia gtx 1050 setup, i have to say drivers are fine, just need some tweaks, just don't touch nvidia's gui tools. Secure boot is better turned off.

[phoenixgaming]

so basically if you want the best out of the box experience with little to no issues after installing a Distro of your choice and is decent at gaming go with AMD but if you just care about getting the best Performance possible out of your game (if you are okay with fixing any errors that may happen) then go for NVIDIA. but I personally want stuff to work out of the box so I am using AMD and honestly I am happy with playing games at 60 or more fps. for me i just want my stuff to work right out of the box thats all.

[tschnellbach]

Hello.
Great video. I am looking for my mother's daily driver PC rebuild. I am trying to find a cheap Radeon GPU that will be supported for years. And will be reliable.
Thanks in advance
Tony

[guillermo]

Thanks for the explanation here a new subscriber!

[PenguinRevolution]

I would say that AMD for Linux is the best all-around GPU for Linux because of it's open source kernel driver. I'm thinking that NVIDIA is eventually going to follow suit on this though.

[MyurrDurr]

NVENC on nvidia is God tier.

No noticable recording lag in obs