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Re:AMD Open Source Driver for Vulkan by nas on Tuesday January 22, 2019 @05:13PM (#18973135)
After years of having AMD video cards, I recently got a high end Nvidia card, GeForce GTX 1070 Ti. For 3-D gaming, Nvidia cards were clearly better performance vs price. However, dealing with the proprietary driver is just a pain in the ass. With an AMD card, the open source driver just worked. With Nvidia, I have to keep re-installing the proprietary driver. Sometimes it doesn't compile with the current kernel (e.g. Debian testing). Finding the correct driver to download and install is a pain (try using the 'links' on nvidia's site).

If I build another PC, I'm going to very strongly prefer an AMD card.

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Re:AMD Open Source Driver for Vulkan by yellowapple on Tuesday January 22, 2019 @06:53PM (#18974130)
Yep. I was on Nvidia+Intel exclusively for a long time, but I bit the bullet and went with AMD graphics for my most recent laptop purchase, and was blown away by it being reasonably performant out-of-the-box. My most recent desktop build was consequently AMD-only (Threadripper+Radeon); worked like a charm. Can't say I'm all that tempted to go back.
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