This is very outdated.
- Catalyst doesn’t exist anymore, it was replaced by AMDGPU-PRO years ago.
- The Radeon Mesa driver (radeonsi) is generally faster than AMDGPU-PRO OpenGL for gaming, and has been for years. On the Vulkan side, performance is usually fairly close between the Mesa driver (RADV), AMDVLK and AMDGPU-PRO.
- AMDGPU is just the kernel driver, which is used by both the Mesa drivers and AMDGPU-PRO, so why is it listed separately?
- For Intel, I think the hardware was holding it back more than the driver, especially since they’ve replaced the classic Mesa drivers with Gallium based ones. But now they’re doing the Arc stuff.
- I don’t know if I would say that Nvidia proprietary runs well
So as a RX580 user I should be using Radeon Mesa driver?
Yes. The default out of the box experience is pretty great with AMD + any mainstream distro.
Proprietary nvidia driving well?
I’m currently considering buying an AMD GPU just so that I don’t constantly have to troubleshoot the nvidia driver when I want to game.
Also nvidia doesn’t support so many APIs, so so things like loading screens break, it also makes it impossible to report kernel issues due to a tainted kernel
Nvidia drives well
[FAILED] Failed to start nvidia-powerd service2015 called. They want their carpe verde GPUs back
As others have mentioned, this is super old. Also, catalyst is not nearly as reckless and dangerous as it should be. It was more like letting a drunk child drive a school bus.
Those have additional safeties like speed governerners, which balances out the drunk child driving it 👌
This is definitely an ancient meme. The radeon kernel driver has been out of use since GCN 2.
Also AMDGPU is generally the same speed or slightly faster than AMDGPU-PRO. And thankfully, fglrx is long dead.
Is gaming with Nvidia really so dire? I have a modern green card and I’m considering a switch to Linux desktop.
What? Nope.
Glad to hear it. Thanks.
The fact that 4 of these drivers are part of mesa and OP doesn’t know the name of the first one (probably r600, as radeonsi and radv are what is meant by amdgpu) shows the questionabilty of this chart. Also OP never tried to run Wayland or KMS on NVIDIA. Granny can drive better than that.
