Hey everyone,

I’m currently rocking a 3080 I bought second hand in my Arch Linux rig. It works great under xorg but not so much wayland. There are a number of bugs and gaming performance is worse. I would like to use wayland in general for the mixed refresh rates with dual monitors. My question is: Is AMD really that much better than Nvidia? Is the AMD experience issue free with wayland? Also, how is hardware encoding with AMD? I’m particularly curious how performance is for game streaming with sunshine. I currently use nvenc hardware encoding which is amazing and feels like there is no latency. Does AMD have a similar experience?

Thanks!

  • FischEnglish
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    1 year ago

    I’m using AMD and I don’t remember having any issues. I’m using GNOME with Wayland and it works perfectly fine (I also have 2 monitors with different refresh rates btw). I also have sunshine set up as well and the latency is unnoticable. Last time I tried (a week or so ago) it suddenly stopped working tho because all encoders are failing. Before that it was using vaapi and worked just fine.

    Edit: I just tested it and vaapi is working with mpv, so it’s probably an issue with sunshine