I switched to Liunx about 15 years ago. I've had plenty of nvidia GPUs over the years, and a few AMDs (I think they were called 390s or something?). Back then, everyone was all hype because the AMD drivers are amazing and nvidia driver suck. I must have missted some Memo, because my AMD GPUs never worked great. I had plenty of issues, and the community is smaller. Hardware accelerated video decoding? Never got it to work. It's been about 8 years, may be better nowadays With Nvidia I've never had any issues at all. Back then Xorg configuration was a bit shoddy, but nvidia shipped a configuration tool which set it up perfectly. A few months ago ArchLinux or KDE decided to switch to Wayland. I didn't even notice until very recently. This is on a Notebook. It's your money, but based purely on "Just Works Good", I say go with nvidia. If your use-case is AI workloads, then it's "Probably Nvidia". AMD is getting much better in this department, but they're still sleeping. No idea why, feels like they don't want to make money. With Nvidia everything just works. More on reddit.com

NVIDIA 610.62 WHQL Driver – Early Performance Benchmark (Ampere GPUs) Hey all, Here’s my early look at the performance of NVIDIA driver 610.62, tested on an Ampere-based GPU (RTX 3070). This is not a definitive performance review—every PC setup differs—but this can serve as a reference point for anyone wondering about driver changes. This will be something totally voluntary, so that you can be guided in some way, do not take it as something absolute because each PC configuration is a totally different world, so I will try to make it as global as possible (referring e.g. to the configuration of a game). Is it worth updating the driver for my current GPU? This is a recurring question from many gamers and PC users. The general rule suggests updating our GPU drivers to the latest version, as it ensures that we get the latest bug fixes, security updates, optimizations for most of the latest AAA games, and support for the newest features. However, it does not guarantee the best raw performance (average FPS numbers) and frametime stability (1% and 0.1% average low/integral FPS or P1 and P0.2 FPS percentile numbers). Comparative performance analyses of GPU drivers are useful because they allow us to reliably validate and estimate significant improvements or regressions in graphics performance attributable to changes in the driver version. Frame Times are recorded using PresentMon during the built-in benchmark run inside each game. Special thanks to UL Solutions for providing the 3DMark license used in these tests Test System OS: Windows 11 Pro (v25H2, latest patches) CPU: Intel Core i7-10700K (factory clocks on CPU and GPU) GPU: ASUS ROG Strix RTX 3070 OC (factory clocks on CPU and GPU) RAM: 64 GB DDR4-3200 (2x32 GB) Storage: 1TB NVMe SSD Display: 4K 60 Hz monitor (no HDR, no G-Sync) Settings: HAGS off | ReBAR on | NVCP Global Defaults Driver Install: Clean install (GeForce Experience - App not included) Benchmark Methodology Benchmarks ran 4 times (first run discarded) Outliers (>5% variance) are retested PresentMon used to record frametimes Game settings: mostly Ultra / 4K - 1440p / no scaling Game Performance Comparisons Age of Empires II: Definitive Edition Using the default settings everything in Ultra. Rendered at 100% in 3840x2160 fullscreen. Driver | Avg FPS | 1% Low | 0.1% Low | FT Avg (ms) | FT 1% (ms) | FT 0.1% (ms) | 537.58 (considered stable by the community) | 57.4 | 37.1 | 33.3 | 17.4 | 26.9 | 30.1 | 561.09 (considered stable by the community) | 63.5 | 47.8 | 37.7 | 15.7 | 20.9 | 26.5 | 596.36 | 61.7 | 44.3 | 35.8 | 16.2 | 22.6 | 28 | 610.47 | 61.4 | 44.5 | 36.3 | 16.3 | 22.5 | 27.5 | 610.62 | 60.9 | 44.6 | 36 | 16.4 | 22.4 | 27.8 The Riftbreaker Using the default settings everything in Ultra with Dx12. Rendered at 100% in 2560x1440 resolution. No scaling. Ray Tracing Off. Screen Space Reflections high. Volumetric Lighting Ultra. Dynamic vegetation: full. Driver | Avg FPS | 1% Low | 0.1% Low | FT Avg (ms) | FT 1% (ms) | FT 0.1% (ms) | 610.52 Hotfix | 151.7 | 136.2 | 126.6 | 6.6 | 7.3 | 7.9 | 610.62 | 151.4 | 135.8 | 129.7 | 6.6 | 7.4 | 7.7 Age of Mythology: Retold Using the default settings everything in Ultra with Dx12. Rendered at 100% in 3840x2160 fullscreen. Texture Quality: High. Texture Filtering: 16x. Terrain Quality: Mythic. Terrain Detail Quality: Mythic. Water Quality: Mythic. Foliage Quality: Full. Shadow Quality: Mythic. Dynamic Reflections: SSR. Ambient Occlusion Quality: SSAO. Effect Quality: High. Dynamic Lights: enabled. Physics Quality: High. Anti-Aliasing FXAA. Driver | Avg FPS | 1% Low | 0.1% Low | FT Avg (ms) | FT 1% (ms) | FT 0.1% (ms) | 596.36 | 48.7 | 35.4 | 31.1 | 20.6 | 28.2 | 32.1 | 610.47 | 47.9 | 34.8 | 31.8 | 20.9 | 28.8 | 31.5 | 610.62 | 49.6 | 36.7 | 28.8 | 20.2 | 27.3 | 34.7 Non-Synthetic Benchmarks Unigine Superposition Benchmark Render: Direct3D11 - Mode: 3840x2160 fullscreen - Preset Custom - Shaders 4K Optimized - Textures: High. Driver | Avg FPS | Score | Min FPS | Max FPS | 537.58 (considered stable by the community) | 94.41 | 12622 | 78.81 | 117.92 | 561.09 (considered stable by the community) | 94.67 | 12657 | 79.08 | 117.66 | 596.36 | 94.63 | 12651 | 78.84 | 117.64 | 610.47 | 94.85 | 12681 | 79.28 | 117.75 | 610.62 | 94.45 | 12628 | 78.55 | 117.45 3DMark Benchmarks Speed Way v1.1 (DirectX 12 Ultimate - 1440p Native) Driver | Score | Performance Delta | 596.36 | 3572 | Baseline | 610.47 | 3579 | +0.20% | 610.62 | 3574 | +0.06% Steel Nomad v1 (DirectX 12 - 4K Native) Driver | Score | Performance Delta | 596.36 | 3186 | Baseline | 610.47 | 3212 | +0.81% | 610.62 | 3209 | +0.72% Steel Nomad v1 (Vulkan API - 4K Native) Driver | Score | Performance Delta | 596.36 | 3536 | Baseline | 610.47 | 3558 | +0.62% | 610.62 | 3517 | -0.54% Fire Strike v1.1 (DirectX 11 - 1080p Native) Driver | Score | Performance Delta | 596.36 | 25235 | Baseline | 610.47 | 25585 | +1.38% | 610.62 | 25403 | +0.67% Stability and System Behavior Testing Hardware Acceleration (Browsers/Discord): Solid. No flickering or anomalies detected after 30 min of mixed use (4K60 YouTube playback in Firefox with zero dropped frames and fluid scrolling). DPC Latency (LatencyMon): PASSED (System remained perfectly in the green. The highest DPC routine execution time was a safe 826 µs from dxgkrnl.sys). More on reddit.com

I've never had an issue from updating a driver More on reddit.com

Wild that nowadays driver stability is an AMD strength More on reddit.com