Is AMD really that much better? (lemmy.sdf.org)

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Hey everyone,

I'm currently rocking a 3080 I bought second hand in my Arch Linux rig. It works great under xorg but not so much wayland. There are a number of bugs and gaming performance is worse. I would like to use wayland in general for the mixed refresh rates with dual monitors. My question is: Is AMD really that much better than Nvidia? Is the AMD experience issue free with wayland? Also, how is hardware encoding with AMD? I'm particularly curious how performance is for game streaming with sunshine. I currently use nvenc hardware encoding which is amazing and feels like there is no latency. Does AMD have a similar experience?

Thanks!

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[-] Cornelius@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Is AMD really that much better?

As someone who swapped out their RTX 3060 for an RX 6900 XT, yes, yes it is. Everything. Just. Works. Display sync, high refresh rate, Wayland, Source games (yeah some native source games just won't play nice on NVIDIA randomly, lmao), driver installation (or lack thereof). It's just a WAY better experience, especially not having to track down and install NVIDIA's drivers. Seriously, you don't realize how much of a convoluted (and frustratingly distro-specific) process it is until you switch to AMD.

NVIDIA will play nice if you put in ALL the work it needs to behave, X11, proprietary drivers, etc. Don't play by its rules? Then Jensen Huang himself put a pipe bomb under your pillow. If you don't mind catering your setup to NVIDIA, then you won't really notice a difference. I mean, in all fairness I now cater my hardware to Linux, buying only AMD/Intel GPUs, so I can't judge.

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