AMD is making impressive strides in Linux gaming, both in terms of adoption of its processors and graphics cards with desktop computers, according to a new report. AMD's battles against Intel or Nvidia are well-documented overall, of course, but it's certainly interesting to see a snapshot of the Linux world, as presented to us by Boiling Steam, with statistics compiled using data from ProtonDB. As Boiling Steam points out, the Steam Hardware Report doesn't provide enough depth for exploring PC setups, but ProtonDB, a site that tracks game compatibility with Valve's Proton (the runtime for playing Steam games on Linux), it is more useful in this sense, if it is more limited in terms of sample size. Either way, with a sample of over 110,000 Linux players from ProtonDB, when it comes to graphics cards, Nvidia clearly leads, but not nearly as dominant as in the larger PC gaming arena. In January 2021, 37,5% of Linux gamers entered AMD, which means that Nvidia has a 62,5% market share, observes Boiling Steam. That, of course, is still a large majority, but compare it to recent figures from analytics firm Jon Peddie Research (JPR) for the overall discrete GPU market, where Nvidia has an 80% market share. What's even more telling here is that if you look at Boiling Steam's stats for January 2019, the picture was similar to JPR with a 25% share for AMD - which jumped 50% in back años. Impressive growth for AMD on Linux, indeed. A commenter on the Boiling Steam article also pointed to GamingOnLinux's statistics, gleaned from just over 10,000 registered users of the site, via their profile data (although take this with a pinch of salt, obviously). Regardless, this much smaller sample set shows AMD with a 41,7% share, up from 30% in July 2019 (note that this data is for some laptops as well, as Intel is shown with a GPU share of 3,6%, which means that integrated graphics are used). Overall, Linux gamers seem to be adopting AMD graphics cards more and more by a certain margin, probably helped by the fact that AMD's drivers are open source and the company is ready to work with the community to improve them. On the Nvidia front, its graphics driver is proprietary (closed), though it works just fine on Linux (that said, it depends who you ask, to be fair), and of course there are benefits in terms of more powerful GPUs. from Team Vert, not to mention ray tracing (and DLSS, where version 2.0 has gotten a big push). AMD is fighting back, of course, with its new Big Navi GPUs finally offering some top-of-the-line competition, or at least they will, when the stock issues are ironed out (the same goes for the RTX 3000 line of nvidia.