I have been considering selling my 3060 ti and buying a 6700 xt for a while now. The main reasons are (potentially) switching to wayland, +4 gb of vram, hardware acceleration in firefox (and steam too, it’s leaking vram for me with nvidia), potentially vr on linux with my quest 2 (a lot of things in alvr seem to be locked for nvidia) and better compatibility with linux in general. I don’t really care for productivity or rtx and dlss (it’s not like they work in most games anyway). The upgrade would cost me at most $75.
My last upgrade was from a GTX1070 to a 6700XT. That was both a big performance upgrade, and a massive “not having to fuck about” upgrade.
It’s not like it’s colossally difficult to install Linux, install the
build-essentials, download the latest NVidia driver, stop your window manager, run the shell installer remembering to select the x86 packages for compatibility, disable Nouveau, and restart (repeat when there’s updates). But compared to keeping AMD up-to-date, which is just ‘install Linux and let your package manager handle it’, then it’s much more time consuming and prone to error.I’ve also been having less graphics glitch issues, but whether that’s the driver change, or whether that’s the fact that Linux has been getting much much better at everything related to gaming this last few years
My upgrade was this year from a GTX 970 to a RX 6700 XT.
I use Arch (btw) and the linux-zen kernel, so I use the nvidia-dkms module. It was much simpler, I just installed mesa and the Vulkan drivers, shutdown, installed the new GPU, booted, uninstalled nvidia-dkms.
It was a seamless transition and I had no problems with it.