Linux

If you're on Linux AMD is clearly superior because NVidia has Linux performance issue compared to Windows so you're ending up paying more for less. However NVidia has the monopole for a reason their product are superior but at what price ? Also if you want to avoid proprietary drivers AMD gets the win too.

I do think AMD is the better option for anyone that spend less than 800-1'000$ on a GPU even for Windows gamers. Personnaly I have made the switch from NVidia to AMD 2 years after ditching Windows for Linux, Never looked back even though Cyberpunk2077 looks amazing on NVidia RTX and some other things.

I have upgraded last year to a RX 7800 XT and have no regrets on spending that money.

if( you need CUDA ){ Use Nvidia (note that OSs officially supported by CUDA often use "old" versions of linux, like Debian 12 (6.1) or Fedora 39 (6.8), I personally use Arch); } else { Use AMD, you will have less problems and it'll probably be easier to setup; }

Why are you avoiding proprietary drivers? Will using them damage you in some way?

Until Intel and AMD figure out a way to deliver feature parity, the only factor is choosing a card should be "does it do the thing I need?". An example use-case for me is having CUDA cores for Blender renders.

I've been using Linux for 30 years, and (notwithstanding laptops that only had CPU graphics) I've used nVidia cards the entire time. I get the driver's from APT, and never had any issues.

AMD. Unless you need blender.

Edit: to make my point clear. To some religiose like venting below.

Nothing I said says don't use amd on blender.

I said AMD unless you need blender. IE for everything but blender use AMD for blender their is a need to consider both.

As others have pointed out. The software development history of blender means for certain tasks nvidia is much faster. And will be for the foreseeable future.

If you need blender then the choice is more complex then just amd.

A do not really do anything gpu intensive other then blender. So for me nvidia even with their drivers makes sense.