The last part of this benchmark series. Windows was thermal throttling like a madman and still managed to be faster when all was said and done. A testament to how bad the Nvidia drivers are on Linux.
Glad I went with AMD when I built my current PC with the purpose to go full-time Linux.
I just got a new all AMD laptop to replace my Nvidia laptop for this same reason.
Honestly, this is why I still haven’t switch to Linux. I have an Nvidia card that I use for stuff like Substance Painter and between that and games, if I was dual-booting I’d probably be running windows 90%-95% of the time. That said, it’s a 3060ti and not a 3080m, so the desktop cards might play nicer than the mobile chips, but still…
If the benchmarks came out on par or with greater performance for Linux then I’d probably switch and either dual-boot or run windows 10 in a VM for the stuff that doesn’t play nice with compatibility layers.
Makes sense. I have great hope for NVK, the open source Nvidia Vulkan driver, in 1 or 2 years. Perhaps then, things will be the other way around. :)
Ye, hopefully. I’m not looking forward to the day Microsoft shuts off updates for windows 10.
You should try it out. I’ve got a 3080 desktop card. I’ve been running Linux as my only os for at least 4/5 years and I had a 970 before this. Barely had any issues with gaming or thermal throttling and it’s running in an SFFPC (Dan H2O).
Of course I can’t entirely generalize from this, however my 2080Ti worked perfectly out of the box on EndeavourOS. Game performance is also mostly similar to my Windows install - if they ran well, they still do, and if they ran badly, then the same goes for that as well.
Nvidia drivers have had way more issues with mobile chips than with desktop. GPU compute workloads (including things like Blender) are very well supported. Nvidia on Linux has dominated the compute market for a long time.
IIRC, nvidia linux drivers benefit greatly from rebar (10 ish %) while the windows driver doesnt, maybe this could bring linux closer to windows on nvidia.
