On Sun, 4 Nov 2018 12:53:18 +0000, you wrote:
Really in Linux I just need it for
desktop work (and possibly CUDA, but this is my home system), it's
games in Windows that I'm after the performance for.
You need to sort of the possilby issue first.
If you need CUDA, then you need Nvidia and the binary driver.
Similarly, if one wants to do Machine Learning then Nvidia and the
binary driver will make your life easier though it is sort of possible
to do ML without Nvidia.