Hi, have been running Solus with Device-1: NVIDIA GP107 [GeForce GTX 1050 Ti] driver: nvidia v: 430.26 with great success (nvidia-smi is useful for load/temp monitoring). It's giving noticably low fps in certain scenes of some games so I've just purchased a second hand AMD RX580.
Rather than the default and games-wise a bit slow os driver and then nvidia's driver there appear to be a number of AMD card drivers. amdgpu-pro, amdgpu-open, amdvlk, mesa.. it seems the open source mesa drivers are pretty good for gaming nowadays? (initial impression from having read on the Phoronix site).
-What driver is the best for fps in somewhat demanding games?
-Is there a driver that comes with something like nvidia-smi for querying about load, vram usage and gpu temp? (I think not)
-What is the best way of going about doing this gpu replacement, i.e can I just shut the machine down, switch the hardware, power it up, see enough interface in order to install your recommended driver?