I just got hold of an AMD RX7800 XT to replace my current Nvidia RTX3080.

I’m likely overthinking this but from what I understand I should just be able to swap the cards then uninstall the Nvidia drivers correct?

I’m running EndeavourOS which I installed with the option to include the Nvidia drivers by default so dunno if that changes anything? I’ve been daily driving Linux for exactly a year as of this month but I still kinda feel like a newbie sometimes lmao. Thanks in advance!

(Update) I got my AMD card installed and loaded up Wayland with no issues, only thing I had to install was the AMD Vulkan drivers for Steam.

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    7 hours ago

    I’ve never done the process myself, but I would probably uninstall the nvidia drivers while the system is still running, install whatever amd packages you need I know there are some vulkan packages that people need that aren’t installed by default, and then power off and swap the cards.

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      6 hours ago

      You just got me to remember something about a Vulkan package when I first installed Steam so gonna find the AMD package for that. Thanks!

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        6 hours ago

        I don’t have an AMD card, so I don’t know, but I recall reading on the endeavourOS forums of people solving their AMD gaming issues by installing the proper vulkan packages. That is to say. You should head to the endeavourOS forums and peruse around there. You will probably find that information very quickly there.

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          6 hours ago

          Thanks! I’ve not been having many problems, but if it’s causing a performance loss it would be good to take care of it, I’ll check that out

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      7 hours ago

      Even if you install the drivers while the system is running, it is not recommended to remove the card while the system is running.

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        7 hours ago

        I never suggested that they remove the card while the system is running. You must have skipped the part in my comment that says power off and swap the cards

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        6 hours ago

        Don’t worry I wasn’t planning on sticking my hands into a powered up PC anyway haha.