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I'm still using my EVGA GeForce 1070. When it's time to upgrade, I'm going with AMD.
Only reason I don't is because:
nvidia just works better on linux. Well... I heard that's changed so this may no longer be relevant
I don't think AMD GPUs work well compared to nVidia with Davinci Resolve
DLSS/Ray Tracing. Even though I never use ray tracing because even the first card with it couldn't handle it ๐
This isn't and has never been the case. Nvidia and AMD are comparable performance-wise on Linux these days, but since the Nvidia drivers are proprietary, they're automatically harder to deal with than the open-source AMD drivers. For that reason alone, AMD is easier to use with Linux out of the box, because the Linux kernel has AMD drivers built in. You still have to install userspace drivers in either case, but the open-source AMD userspace drivers have outperformed Nvidia's proprietary drivers for a long time. It's only been within the last couple years that Nvidia's proprietary drivers have reached parity with AMD's open-source ones.
It was the case prior to 2015 or so before the amd open source drivers actually became good.
They didnโt exist prior to 2014. Amd also required proprietary drivers and were a significantly worse experience than Nvidia back then.