It's one of the perennial questions, usually a few years ago NVIDIA had better support for Linux compared to ATIs, but this has changed a lot in recent years. AMD has promoted the support of its drivers for Linux a lot, and I am not only referring to closed source ones, there have also been great advances in open ones such as AMDGPU, so the kernel support for this type of graphics card is quite good nowadays, whether we opt for free drivers, or if we want to use proprietary ones.
Obviously, with the owners who supply us with so much AMD like NVIDIA the results will be more optimal. In addition, the new improvements of other projects such as Vulkan, MESA, etc., have also contributed to improve the graphical aspect in the Linux kernel, making GNU / Linux operating systems have a very good graphical stack to the delight of gamers. more inveterate. A pity that the number of titles is not comparable to that of Windows, since in technical aspects, Linux has reached a level quite similar to Windows in terms of performance for video games ...
Now many benchmarks performed on both systems show that Windows is a bit ahead of some Linux distros in this regard, I will not deny it. You have to recognize it and wait for this to improve little by little as it is doing. However, the results of recent times are much more hopeful than those of a few years ago, where Linux was no rival in this regard. Well, going back to the hardware, which GPU or graphics card to choose for our video games and which works properly in Linux:
The answer is simple, both manufacturers offer good products and good drivers as we have said. But if we want to be a bit more technical and examine the results. Well, the results continue to give the NVIDIA GeForce victorious, although not by much (it also depends on the range you choose). If we compare for example the new Radeon R9 Fury with the GeForce GTX 1080, 1070 and 980 Ti, these last three give better results in frames per second. Although it will also depend on the range as I have said, for example, the Radeon RX 480 have given better results than the GTX 780 Ti or the GTX 1050 Ti, etc. Or the R9 285 better than the GTX 960 and even the Radeon R7 370 has performed better than the GTX 1050 in some tests ...
Eye! And this will also depend on the video game you are playing, since some are more optimized for some cards than for others, and the results can be amazing ...
Nvidia is WAY ABOVE AMD on GNU / Linux for gaming at the moment, and anyone who has read Phoronix in recent years knows that.
There is hardly any difference between the results of NVIDIA in Windows (MS WOS) and Linux (GNU / Linux), while in AMD, although it has been reduced they are still great.
Hello. A query. How do I install the AMD proprietary graphics driver on Ubuntu 16.04? My graphics card is this AMD A8-7600 Radeon R7. So when I recently installed the mesa driver it threw an error when starting. There are few times that the unity desktop crashes in low graphic mode.
The long error is this:
kfd kfd: error getting iomu info.
Generally, in those ubuntu, the open AMD drivers are already included in the distro.
Hello, sorry for asking but... Would it be possible or too much to ask for an update of this article as of today, 2023? Honestly, I've been reading and what I've seen the most is that AMD has better integration in general with Linux, but Nvidia, despite being proprietary, works decently well... Honestly, it's a little difficult to wade through so many opinions. Thanks in advance!