Installing Ubuntu and AMD Drivers

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I installed Ubuntu 20.04 on my VCS.   This is actually the first time I've done it on a system with AMD graphics,   I've used nVidia for years.

 

Anyway-  for nVidia, the default open source drivers that most distros ship with are crap-  they always leave unwanted visual artifacts on my desktop, so you want to install the official proprietary drivers from nVidia.

 

Is it a similar situation with AMD where there's a better set of graphics drivers than distros ship with?   I ask because one of the games I ran popped up a warning that I had embedded graphics and I should make sure I update the drivers.    Also some programs I wrote using SDL aren't displaying properly in full screen mode, so I wonder if that's a driver issue, or bad code I wrote :)    They work on nVidia though.

 

[Matt_B]

AMD offer both open and closed source drivers, but the general consensus would be that there's little point to using the latter as - unlike Nvidia - the open source driver offers all the GPU features and good performance.

 

Updating the drivers is always worth a go though.

Edited July 22, 2021 by Matt_B

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Vulkan is all set up correctly with hardware acceleration out of the box too?   Coming from nVidia this all seems too easy   :)