Hi so I was wondering what gpu vendor had the best support intel, amd or nvidia In the future I wanna upgrade my mid range pc and I dual boot cachyos (arch btw) and windows 11 (to play game that don’t work on linux)

  • LunchMoneyThief@links.hackliberty.orgEnglish
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    1 month ago

    There is no best. Only least worst. Pick your poison:

    AMD: Libre driver stack, require firmware blobs.
    NVidia: Proprietary driver stack (kernel driver component slowly being opened), proprietary firmware exists in ROM on card so doesn’t need to be loaded at runtime.
    Intel: Libre driver stack, same firmware issue as with NVidia, GPU performance generally sucks because iGPU constraints

    I would say, in order from least-worst to most-worst:
    AMD
    Intel
    NVidia

    Others that I have considered, but are hopeless pipe dreams
    Matrox - old, deprecated, dead, no longer in business?
    S3 Chrome - assimilated into Centaur/VIA technologies, later bought out by Intel
    Mali - don’t even kid yourself
    Software rendering - you must be desperate
    Aspeed and other 2D framebuffer solutions - good luck
    Any and every “open source GPU” initiative - always dead in the water. NLnet recently pulled funding from LibreSOC because the lead dev spent more time begging for e-gold than doing any developmental work.