Ubuntu - GPU - AMD vs Nvidia
| AMD | Nvidia | |
|---|---|---|
| Account | No need to have an account or register | The need to have an account and be logged in. |
| Advertisements | No Ads When Installing Drivers. | Ads showing while it is installing. |
| Driver stack | Open source. | Proprietary. |
| Performance & Security | X.Org or Wayland can be easily used. | NVIDIA relies on X.Org for displaying graphics on Linux. |
| AMD adapts to newer technologies such as Wayland to offer better performance, code maintainability, and security. | NVIDIA tries to work around this by using XWayland, which is an X server that runs under Wayland and provides compatibility for native X11 applications that are yet to provide Wayland support. | |
| * XWayland uses X as the display server, so it does not have Wayland’s security features. | ||
| * There is “degraded performance” with XWayland on NVIDIA compared to X11. | ||
| * Some applications may not work on XWayland due to it not being fully backward-compatible with X11. | ||
| Security issues | Anyone can fix. | At the mercy of Nvidia to fix. There is no one else to wait for other than Nvidia. They could take ages to fix. |
| Upgrading the distro | No need to remove the old driver. | Need to remove the old driver. |
| Vendor Lock-in | No Vendor Lock-In. | Substantial Vendor Lock-in. |