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?

  • utopiah
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    17 hours ago

    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.