I’m on Mint with. 5060ti. Does great for gaming and local AI

AMD GPU support is excellent and built into the kernel, but i’d still hesitate to day 1 a newly released GPU, but I’d hesitate to day 1 a newly released GPU on windows too (and this is for amd, intel and nvidia)

nvidia is more of a headache, but a lot of distros have nvidia specific packs so you don’t have to deal with the nvidia driver headache yourself, but not entirely perfect.

Intel is still developing its drivers, some updates seeing some big gains…and seems to have solid linux support, second only to AMD, But theres also concern of intel going Ouroboros in the whole “We’re releasing a new product, but its not selling as much as we want due to our history of cancelling products early causing consumer hesitation, so we’re cancelling this product early because of consumer hesitation” and intel owners being left in a lurch of abandoned products.

Personally, I would get an AMD gpu. not out of some weird parasocial obsession with a multi-billion dollar company, but simply because its the most easy, best supported, most plug-n-play gpu to use on linux at the moment.

I went with an AMD GPU for the best compatibility (I use Fedora Workstation) and it has been fantastic. Another thing to mention is that even though you don’t have access to the Adrenaline software, Mesa drivers work in the background and an application called LACT gives you everything you need tweak/OC, adjust the fans, and check the thermals.

Rtx 3080 with Cachyos. Plug-and-play, both for videogames and production tasks.

AMD? plug and play, works out of the box flawlessly. Nvidia? Better than before but still shit and you loose around 30% performance.

Running an Nvidia RTX 5070 mobile on Linux Mint. Gaming works fine. I’ve only played Fallout: New Vegas yet, but several gaming benchmarks ran well. However, the laptop doesn’t wake up from sleep mode and it seems to be related to the video drivers, so that’s a nuisance.

Running an RTX 5070 on CachyOS here.

Everything runs super smoothly on my 1440p monitor for the games I play (World of Warcraft, Guild Wars 2, and No Man’s Sky). I’ve also had no issues running local LLMs on the GPU via ollama.

General desktop usage with KDE Plasma on Wayland has been flawless so far

I’ve used a 3070ti and currently a 5070 on Nobara (Fedora), and since they finally implemented explicit sync, my issues are pretty much gone completely. No hiccups, no crashes, performance is comparable to windows with better frame pacing from the feel of it. Everything up to path tracing works fine, and LLMs / Imagegen works fine as well.

Just to give my 2 cents I have an intel Arc A770 and it runs flawless :)

For AMD, better than windows

5090 on nixOS, no issues personally.

For the average user, indistinguishable from windows.

I have an rx 7900 xtx. Works like a charm with more fps compared to windows

AMD = Awesome!
Nvidia = A heck lot more better than a few years ago. A Many users do not have a problem.