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How is NVIDIA on Wayland nowadays? (lemmy.world)

submitted 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) by GlowHuddy@lemmy.world to c/linux@lemmy.ml

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I have currently a RX 6700XT and I'm quite happy with it when it comes to gaming and regular desktop usage, but was recently doing some local ML stuff and was just made aware of huge gap NVIDIA has over AMD in that space.

But yeah, going back to NVIDIA (I used to run 1080) after going AMD... seems kinda dirty for me ;-; Was very happy to move to AMD and be finally be free from the walled garden.

I thought at first to just buy a second GPU and still use my 6700XT for gaming and just use NVIDIA for ML, but unfortunately my motherboard doesn't have 2 PCIe slots I could use for GPUs, so I need to choose. I would be able to buy used RTX 3090 for a fair price, since I don't want to go for current gen, because of the current pricing.

So my question is how is NVIDIA nowadays? I specifically mean Wayland compatibility, since I just recently switched and would suck to go back to Xorg. Other than that, are there any hurdles, issues, annoyances, or is it smooth and seamless nowadays? Would you upgrade in my case?

EDIT: Forgot to mention, I'm currently using GNOME on Arch(btw), since that might be relevant

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[–] arcidalex@lemmy.world 32 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (7 children)

Better, but still shit. The main holdup right now to what I see is wayland-protocols and the WMs adding Explicit Sync support as the proprietary driver does not have implicit sync support. Its part of a larger move for the graphics stack to move to explicit sync:

https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/wayland/wayland-protocols/-/merge_requests/90

Once this is in, the flickering issues will be solved and NVIDIA wayland being a daily driver in most situations

[–] GlowHuddy@lemmy.world 7 points 8 months ago (6 children)

Yeah, was just reading about it and it kind of sucks, since one of the main reasons I wanted to go Wayland was multi-monitor VRR and I can see it is also an issue without explicit sync :/

[–] arcidalex@lemmy.world 13 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (5 children)

Yeah. I have a multi-monitor VRR setup as well and happened to have a 3090 and not being able to take advantage of Wayland really sucks. And its not like Xorg is any good in that department either so you’re just stuck between a rock and a hard place until explicit sync is in

Lets see what will happen first- me getting a 7900xtx or this protocol being merged

[–] GlowHuddy@lemmy.world 4 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Now I'm actually considering that one as well. Or I'll wait a generation I guess, since maybe by then Radeon will at least be comparable to NVIDIA in terms of compute/ML.

Damn you NVIDIA

[–] filister@lemmy.world 2 points 8 months ago

Yes, I am pretty much in the same boat, running Linux as a daily driver and currently having an ancient AMD GPU and was thinking to buy NVIDIA for exactly ML but I really don't want to give them my money, as I dislike the company and their management but AMD is subpar in that department, so not much of a choice

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