I’ve been using an AMD 6700 XT for the past few years but have been considering getting a NVIDIA 5070 Ti for raytracing and lesser extent DLSS.
However, I’ve borrowed a NVIDIA 2060 and am having massive performance issues on the propriety drivers. I’m getting cursor stutters, window movements stuttery, Gnome overview stuttering, etc. Basically the desktop is not nearly as smooth as it is on AMD.
Even Nouveu is a better experience, although that means no Vulkan support unless I were to manually set up NVK.
Is the experience any better for 30 series or 40 series?
Edit: After further thought, I think I will just go for a Radeon 9070 or 9070XT since it’s the safer choice; FSR4 seems to be a big upgrade (though I never noticed any major issue even with FSR1), open drivers, and since it will likely be significantly cheaper to get 16GB of VRAM.
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Let me give you my perspective.
I’ve been an Nvidia user for almost my entire life (started with a Voodoo 2, then a Voodoo 3) but last year finally got fed up with the Nvidia driver insanity. I jumped ship and got a Radeon 6700XT. I powered down my PC, pulled my Nvidia 1060 Ti out and put the AMD card in.
I powered it on and it booted straight to the login screen. I then spent roughly 15 minutes trying to figure out how to install the Radeon drivers with no luck. Turns out, you don’t have to. They’re open source and work right out of the box. Jumped right into starfield and haven’t looked back since.
I’ll never buy another Nvidia card. Just my experience, but hope this helps.
My RTX 4090 is working perfectly on Fedora 41.
I am running Arch with KDE and Wayland on my system with an i7-12700KF and an EVGA 3090 FTW and I can’t say it has been “flawless”
Once I setup Arch on it with the proper configuration, and using the Proprietary drivers, I can game on it and everything else I need to do.
If I had a do over, I would have gone all AMD but when I built this PC I was on Windows. But never again.
2080ti on Tumbleweed here, works flawlessly in Kde. Games also run fine. All in Wayland.
I must be doing something wrong because a 3060 ti on fedora 41 with proprietary drivers from rpm fusiion was entirely unusable for gaming. Absolutely unplayable performance on X11 and bad performance with steam glitching on wayland.
Switched to amd and it works now
Something was definitely wrong with your setup. It’s a shame you changed hardware so readily without getting to the bottom of the issue.
Nvidia support on Linux isn’t great, but it’s also not useless.
I am using a 4080 on Plasma 6 wayland. It works pretty well. DLSS works. I haven’t tried frame generation, but I think support was added recently. Occasionally I have a wake problem, but I believe that is bios related. I am encountering a gamescope blackscreen freezing issue.
Only stuttering I am experiencing is a Steam overlay bug and Bluetooth interference sometimes.
Compositor choice and how recent of release will effect your experience as they are all independent implementations and still improving.
I wouldn’t expect that a 20 series card to be a specifically buggier experience over the 40 and 30 series though.
4090 on EndeavourOS KDE Wayland is quite flawless, even including running a 3D rendering CUDA app for windows via Wine
I’m using Linux Mint (Cinnamon) with a 3070. I have absolutely zero issues.
Not an nvidia user, but afaik it has been getting better but it’s still not great so with the latest AMD announcement are you able to wait for the next GEN of AMD cards?
I was using a 1660 Ti around 3 years ago and I don’t remember it being this stuttery, even on Wayland. If this is a problem on newer NVIDIA cards, then I think I might have to go AMD again despite the worse raytracing. I wanted to get an upgrade before upcoming tariffs affect graphics card prices.
NVIDIA-SMI 535.183.01 on NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 Ti, been playing (and working) with it on Debian (and Ubuntu) with that setup for years now and… pretty much 0 problem.
It’s only when I tinker with CUDA for ML tinkering that I might spend 1h re-installing the right driver to match version, or containers, but otherwise, as daily driver, pretty much flawless experience.
I believe from time to time I get a glitch on Plasma when PC comes back from hibernation but that’s solved in 1s.
