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Is AMD really that much better? (lemmy.sdf.org)
submitted 1 year ago by SpicyTofuSoup@lemmy.sdf.org to c/linux_gaming@lemmy.ml
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Hey everyone,

I'm currently rocking a 3080 I bought second hand in my Arch Linux rig. It works great under xorg but not so much wayland. There are a number of bugs and gaming performance is worse. I would like to use wayland in general for the mixed refresh rates with dual monitors. My question is: Is AMD really that much better than Nvidia? Is the AMD experience issue free with wayland? Also, how is hardware encoding with AMD? I'm particularly curious how performance is for game streaming with sunshine. I currently use nvenc hardware encoding which is amazing and feels like there is no latency. Does AMD have a similar experience?

Thanks!

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[โ€“] russjr08@outpost.zeuslink.net 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

For sure, previously I never really had an okay time with Nvidia + Wayland, but I finally got to try out Fedora Kinoite (via Universal Blue, so the Nvidia drivers are already in the image) and the experience is way smoother than I've had on other distros.

I still had the issue with Discord and getting lag while typing, but that seems to be fixed by disabling hardware acceleration in the advanced settings - though I suspect this will still occur in other Electron apps (which thankfully I do not use too many of). Other than that, my experience seems to be the same as what Lojcs mentioned (along with Night Light not working, but that's 100% an Nvidia driver issue since it doesn't support GAMMA_LUT under Wayland yet).

I'm so far cautiously optimistic to see if it continues to run decently, as in the past when I've used Wayland, when it worked it was definitely smoother than X was.

[โ€“] Lojcs@lemm.ee 2 points 1 year ago

Plasma 6 supposedly has a workaround for the night light. Not sure why they aren't backporting it