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Should I switch to amd? (beehaw.org)

submitted 1 year ago by Stoneblackdog@beehaw.org to c/linux_gaming@lemmy.ml

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I have been considering selling my 3060 ti and buying a 6700 xt for a while now. The main reasons are (potentially) switching to wayland, +4 gb of vram, hardware acceleration in firefox (and steam too, it's leaking vram for me with nvidia), potentially vr on linux with my quest 2 (a lot of things in alvr seem to be locked for nvidia) and better compatibility with linux in general. I don't really care for productivity or rtx and dlss (it's not like they work in most games anyway). The upgrade would cost me at most $75.

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[–] xinayder@infosec.pub 2 points 1 year ago

My upgrade was this year from a GTX 970 to a RX 6700 XT.

I use Arch (btw) and the linux-zen kernel, so I use the nvidia-dkms module. It was much simpler, I just installed mesa and the Vulkan drivers, shutdown, installed the new GPU, booted, uninstalled nvidia-dkms.

It was a seamless transition and I had no problems with it.