I currently use a Nvidia GTX 650 ti and the nvidia drivers (v.387.22) which are pretty much working "out of the box" I just selected them from the "additional drivers" tab of the "Software & Updates" graphical interface and everything works fine.
I watch 4k movies, I play OpenGL and Vulkan games (among them AAA high demanding 3D accelerated games ) without any issue (in terms of stability and graphical quality) but at a low frame-rate.
So I decided to upgrade to a RX 580 8GB which will arrive to my home tomorrow.
My question is: How to do a proper swap of the video cards? (should I purge the existing nvidia driver first? How to remove every related file and/or graphical setting like I would using DDU in windows?)
Which AMD driver and overlay (I dont know even what overlays are but searching on goole I found out they exist for AMD drivers) should I download to have best performance in 3d games especially in Vulkan.
Do I have to reinstall Vulkan or does it come with the driver and/or the overlay?
Is the process straight forward as with the nvidia drivers or do I have to manually install the drivers? if I do then from where? can I set a PPA and have them update automatically?
I use ubuntu 17.10 my kenrel version is 4.13.0.17 and I use the gnome shell v. 3.26.2
The rest of my hardware is AMD FX8320, Asrock 970 Pro3, 16GB DDR3 ram.
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