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>In terms of sheer bang for your buck, Nvidia's cards have been on top for a while now

But they have not been on top for a long enough period that cards bought when they were are generally supported by nouveau, and cards bought after should be AMD. On top of this, the reality is that most people don't need top of the line GPUs. Last year's GPUs will run next year's games at max specs.

>Linux their proprietary drivers are the most stable in games

were

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> Last year's GPUs will run next year's games at max specs.

If you want to run at 1080p@60hz perhaps, but many people now are going to 1440p, 2160p, 144hz or some combination there of which can easily strain even the latest GPUs.

You can get high end AMD cards for these, so it's not an issue if you want to use open drivers. Last year was a bit tight due to crytpocurrency mining rush (AMD GPUs were hard to buy, prices were crazy inflated and so on). This year should be better for gaming with open drivers, especially after Navi will come out.

Last I heard AMD drivers, both proprietary and open have severe stability issues on Linux. Is that no longer the case?

Not anymore for open drivers. Mesa developers had a lot of push to fix gaming related bugs. If you know some that are still broken, please open a bug on Mesa bug tracker and also list it here:

https://www.gamingonlinux.com/wiki/Games_broken_on_Mesa

This list is monitored by Mesa developers.

These days AMD explicitly recommend using open drivers for gaming.

I've bought an AMD Radeon RX580 on my desktop for gaming, and it's been working great so far with the default open source drivers that come with Ubuntu (18.04 onwards). Didn't have to do anything.

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