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?

Edit: After further thought, I think I will just go for a Radeon 9070 or 9070XT since it’s the safer choice; FSR4 seems to be a big upgrade (though I never noticed any major issue even with FSR1), open drivers, and since it will likely be significantly cheaper to get 16GB of VRAM.

  • CMDR_Horn@lemmy.world
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    2 days ago

    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?

    • Leaflet@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
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      2 days ago

      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.