… According to Phoronix via Ars Technica , in a series of patch notes for an amdgpu driver update that recently dropped, Harry Wentland, SMTS Software Engineer at AMD, says the company has added HDMI FRL Fixed Rate Link to the popular Linux display driver. …
… The driver-level override officially covers more than 85 games, and community-tracked lists have pushed past 268 titles via FSR 3.1.4 compatibility. …
… Driver-level frame generation is the clearest example of where the software gap shows up in practice for me. Both vendors offer it: Smooth Motion on Nvidia, AFMF2 on AMD, but the implementations are far from equivalent. …
… On top of that, drivers can compensate for a lot. GPU drivers handle far more than just rendering. They manage power states, thermal behavior, display output quirks, and compatibility with thousands of different system configurations. …
… Most users don't want to think about compatibility flags or driver-level overrides, after all. …
… You will have a relatively smoother experience with AMD graphics cards due to the open-source drivers integrated into the kernel. You can expect faster performance and more predictable driver updates on AMD GPUs. …
… New driver versions often improve stability, reduce latency, and fix compatibility bugs with newer routers and Wi-Fi standards. …
… AMD's open-source drivers are excellent, Nvidia's proprietary stack has gotten a lot better, and Valve keeps pouring resources into compatibility. …
… Related All the settings in AMD, Intel, and Nvidia's drivers you need to enable Optimized defaults get your PC booting but there are tweaks to do for every GPU maker Do not force Resizable BAR globally on your PC That's where things might start to fall apart There's always a temptation to push furt… …
… The latest SteamOS updates squeeze more life out of the original Steam Deck's AMD APU, and both Wine and Proton can now use the mainline NTSYNC kernel driver to better map Windows synchronization primitives onto Linux, reducing overhead in some threaded workloads. …