AMD Open Source Driver for Vulkan
A lot of people are talking along the lines of &quot;oh AMD is nice but... Nvidia&quot;.<p>No, in 2019 all AMD GPUs this decade support OpenGL through 4.5, support Vulkan, and still really don&#x27;t have a great OpenCL situation (rocm is out of tree on every distro and only supprts parts of 2.0 still).<p>For gaming though, theres no reason not to get an AMD GPU. They are at near performance parity with Nvidia relative to their Windows performance, they work with the inbuilt drivers on every distro out of the box, and the only footgun to watch out for is that new hardware generally takes a feature release Mesa cycle to get stable after launch. You even get hardware accelerated h264 encoding and decoding (and vpx on some chips) via vaapi. All on top of the fundamental that they are much more freedom respecting than Nvidia.<p><i>Stop giving Nvidia your money to screw you over with</i>. CUDA, their RTX crap, Gsync, Physx, Nvidia &quot;Gameworks&quot;, and much more are all anti-competitive monopolist exploitative user-hostile evil meant to screw over competition and customers alike. Nvidia is one of the most reprehensible companies out there among peers like Oracle. AMD isn&#x27;t a selfless helpless angel of a company, but when their products <i>are</i> competitive, and in many ways better (such as supporting Wayland) stop giving such a hostile business your money.