I’ve been using an AMD 6700 XT for the past few years but have been considering getting a NVIDIA 5070 Ti for raytracing and lesser extent DLSS.
However, I’ve borrowed a NVIDIA 2060 and am having massive performance issues on the propriety drivers. I’m getting cursor stutters, window movements stuttery, Gnome overview stuttering, etc. Basically the desktop is not nearly as smooth as it is on AMD.
Even Nouveu is a better experience, although that means no Vulkan support unless I were to manually set up NVK.
Is the experience any better for 30 series or 40 series?
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I am using a 4080 on Plasma 6 wayland. It works pretty well. DLSS works. I haven’t tried frame generation, but I think support was added recently. Occasionally I have a wake problem, but I believe that is bios related. I am encountering a gamescope blackscreen freezing issue.
Only stuttering I am experiencing is a Steam overlay bug and Bluetooth interference sometimes.
Compositor choice and how recent of release will effect your experience as they are all independent implementations and still improving.
I wouldn’t expect that a 20 series card to be a specifically buggier experience over the 40 and 30 series though.
Not an nvidia user, but afaik it has been getting better but it’s still not great so with the latest AMD announcement are you able to wait for the next GEN of AMD cards?
I was using a 1660 Ti around 3 years ago and I don’t remember it being this stuttery, even on Wayland. If this is a problem on newer NVIDIA cards, then I think I might have to go AMD again despite the worse raytracing. I wanted to get an upgrade before upcoming tariffs affect graphics card prices.
I’m currently dual booting Pop OS and Fedora KDE edition with a 3080, so essentially using both an old GNOME version (Pop) and Plasma 6 (Fedora). Pop works straight out of the box if you choose the Nvidia install and the Nvidia controls are fairly similar to Windows.
Fedora gave me some problems getting it going, but once I’d opted in to proprietary drivers, and did a few updates, it’s been all good. The HDR implementation in Plasma is way better than Win 10 and the only issue with VRR is that it won’t work if you have a multi-monitor setup. Turning off the other monitors works fine. The gpu controls are more limited though.
GNOME is a bit behind Plasma. VRR is an experimental feature and HDR doesn’t run on Nvidia cards. Both should be fixed sometime this year I believe.
If you undervolt your card you are out of luck. There are some limited overclocking tools but underclocking seems like a bit of a nightmare.
GNOME is a bit behind Plasma.
According to the Arch wiki covering VRR, Gnome doesn’t have issues with multi-monitor VRR, so you can set it for one monitor and not another in Display Settings (once you enable the feature; can’t test myself).
Sounds like both Plasma and Gnome have work ahead of them, since you said that you can’t currently have a multi-monitor setup using VRR on Plasma.
Huh TIL. Sorry if I sounded dismissive of GNOME, I was just going by what has and hasn’t been implemented. I actually hated how Plasma looked and how it was set out so ended up getting a global Mac OS theme to fix it.
Part of the reason for dual booting is to figure out which DE I prefer having only just moved over from windows.
2080ti on Tumbleweed here, works flawlessly in Kde. Games also run fine. All in Wayland.
I’m also having a mostly good experience with the same GPU using Aurora. One small issue I noticed is that certain context menus in steam appear corrupted sometimes. Have had no problem with games themselves.
I must be doing something wrong because a 3060 ti on fedora 41 with proprietary drivers from rpm fusiion was entirely unusable for gaming. Absolutely unplayable performance on X11 and bad performance with steam glitching on wayland.
Switched to amd and it works now
Something was definitely wrong with your setup. It’s a shame you changed hardware so readily without getting to the bottom of the issue.
Nvidia support on Linux isn’t great, but it’s also not useless.
I’m using Linux Mint (Cinnamon) with a 3070. I have absolutely zero issues.
3060ti here and mint cinnamon is perfect. no other distro works properly though.
I am running Arch with KDE and Wayland on my system with an i7-12700KF and an EVGA 3090 FTW and I can’t say it has been “flawless”
Once I setup Arch on it with the proper configuration, and using the Proprietary drivers, I can game on it and everything else I need to do.
If I had a do over, I would have gone all AMD but when I built this PC I was on Windows. But never again.
4090 on EndeavourOS KDE Wayland is quite flawless, even including running a 3D rendering CUDA app for windows via Wine
I have a 2060 super, I’m on nobara 41 kde with no issues. Tbh, this might just be a gnome issue, but you might just be unlucky.
NVIDIA-SMI 535.183.01 on NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 Ti, been playing (and working) with it on Debian (and Ubuntu) with that setup for years now and… pretty much 0 problem.
It’s only when I tinker with CUDA for ML tinkering that I might spend 1h re-installing the right driver to match version, or containers, but otherwise, as daily driver, pretty much flawless experience.
I believe from time to time I get a glitch on Plasma when PC comes back from hibernation but that’s solved in 1s.
