AMD GPU Gaming | Is it REALLY better on Linux?

I recently got a second-hand all AMD desktop PC for gaming, is it really better than nVidia GPU for gaming on Linux? Let's find out.

Personal gears:

Timecode:
0:00 - AMD vs nVidia for linux gaming
0:27 - machine in question (spec)
0::57 - distributions I used, and games that I have tried that works on Linux (Mario go kart 8, persona 5 royal, pokemon, hogwarts legacy, overcooked: all you can eat, FF7 remake, buldar's gate 3, elden ring, RDR2 and ACO)
1:34 - gaming benchmark on Linux desktop?
1:58 - Hardware #1: no driver install needed
2:42 - Hardware #2: AMD hardware hassle free?
3:22 - Hardware #3: what else needs to worry about with AMD on Linux
4:18 - Hardware #4: what it likes to use an Linux compatible hardware for gaming
5:00 - Software #1: is it easier to set up gaming with AMD gpu compared to nVidia?
5:46 - Software #2: is nVidia good for Linux gaming
6:32 - Software #3: can AMD gpu solve all the game compatability issue on Linux?
7:07 - What I have learned after gaming on AMD GPU for 2 months compared to Windows and nVidia

[lassebq]

The answer to video title - yes, objectively.

As someone who prefers VSync, it caused me a lot of trouble on windows. Because for some reason whenever there's an artificial limit to framerate such as VSync, the GPU's frequency stays low. Seemingly because AMD driver on windows tries to "guess" whenever you're gaming or not. So when it sees low GPU utilization (such as with a framerate limiter) it doesn't let card accelerate which brought me stutter on windows. Uncapping FPS in the game fixes this issue. But it's just nonsense in my opinion. Linux has no issues with VSync and utilizes GPU properly.

[stalker]

My next gpu will def be AMD as well. Have had to reinstall linux many times due to nvidia drivers breaking something.

[MnemonicCarrier]

Thanks - very interesting. I don't do much gaming, mostly just coding. I have two AMD systems (GPU and CPU), one system with an Intel CPU and AMD GPU, and one system with an Intel CPU and Nvidia GPU. I don't really have a preference at this stage, haven't had any issues with any of my systems. I have to use the Nvidia GPU for CUDA projects, but I'm now looking into AMD alternatives. I think video hardware encoding might be easier on Nvidia too.

[jimjamreal]

Having owned an Nvidia GPU before really getting into Linux on my desktop, the issues I've had have been less about drivers and making the GPU work under Linux, and more about independent projects making it clear that they want nothing to do with Nvidia. I'm currently using Sway on top of wlroots, which seem to be particularly anti-Nvidia. The wlroots package has a 2 line Nvidia patched version on the AUR, that seems to intentionally not be accepted upstream to prevent horrible eye-straining flickering, not to mention being forced to use "--unsupported-gpu" and being told "not to submit bug reports" if I experience issues like this. A wayland VNC host project I wanted to use is impossible, solely because the maintainer doesn't want to support EGL, not because there's a flaw with Nvidia.

[dageta]

I want to switch to Linux and people keep telling me to get a AMD GPU for it. But from what i've seen its still buggy and some games just dont work.

[ganjarseo]

I always feel my AMD pc is always something.. i mean in the good way

[eleventy-seven]

AMD CPUs Nvidia GPUs been using and playing on Linux since Ubuntu 14.04. Since 75-80% of GPUs are Nvidia it's good for all of us that love Linux to figure them all out.

[m-vendor]

If you don't care about cuda programming, ai or video editing/3d modeling than just buy AMD.
Simple as that. Wayland is trash. Unoptimised piece of crap.

[warmage]

Holy fuck soft voice in an echo chamber to then be sent deaf by a LOUD AS GONG to subscribe through my headphones. 10/10 editing