Hi y'all!
I've been using Nvidia GPUs for about all my life, but have been hearing how AMD usually plays nicer with Linux.
I'm somewhat new to this OS and all the distros, and I was wondering if you could help me with understanding some of the differences.
I currently have a 4080 from Nvidia, and I use it for both content creation and gaming. Back when I was picking out my new GPU, I wanted to pick the 7900 XTX from AMD, but I was on windows back then and the two GPUs were the exact same price in my region, so I figured I might as well pick that.
Fast forward to today and I am noticing that the 4080 is struggling a bit with games like Clair Obscur: Expedition 33.
(I'm getting forty fps on medium/high settings with 1440p) and I see some people suggest it is because of the translation overhead of Nvidia via Proton, and that this would be reduced with AMDs GPUs, but I'm not entirely sure how much there is to gain here, really.
So.. TL:DR;
What is gained and what is lost if I were to sell the 4080 and switch to AMDs 7900XTX or 9070XT?
I'm on ~~arch~~ Nobara, btw
Also it's not like the 9070XT is slow. We've got a 6600 and it's perfectly fine for basically anything that isn't VR (though we've got a 1080p 60Hz monitor, nothing special).
Yeah seconded on drivers. AMD drivers just work. Nvidia's can be a bit of a hassle.