With the Bash command "lsusb" it shows me this: Bus 001 Device 006: ID 044f:b66d ThrustMaster, Inc. I'm using Ubuntu 20.10 and running an Intel Core I5 with an AMD Raedon RX 5600 XT. You should consider your use case before listening to the "Nvidia is rubbish on Linux, switch to AMD" advice you see everywhere on the Linux related subs. AMD GPUs might be better in most use cases, but they are no good for mine. TL DR: AMD's hardware encoder is garbage compared to nvenc and I really need a hardware encoder to record and stream games without losing a stupid amount of performance. That's what I get for not considering my use case before making a purchase. The Nvidia experience is so much smoother in this case, that I'm regretting not paying the extra money for an RTX 3070. I had a GTX 1070 before upgrading to the 6700 XT I'm using now, and I had a much better experience when it came to recording/streaming I just had to select nvenc in OBS, set the bitrate, and press record. So what can I conclude? If you just want to play some games, then AMD GPUs are perfectly fine, but if you want to do ANY kind of content creation which involves recording and/or streaming gameplay, don't bother with AMD, go Nvidia.
I tried looking for a solution, but I've found none, only other people with the same issue. Yes, it's impossible to record with kmsgrab with sound using the vaapi encoder without the recording being super choppy. I also tried kmsgrab and that was a significant improvement in terms of performance, but there is a problem with it - I can't record with sound unless I want my recording to be a slideshow. X11grab literally takes away 20 fps which is, in many cases, a bigger performance hit than just recording on the CPU with x264, not ideal. Surprisingly, the video does not lag, but x11 grab destroys my frame rate. I gave up on OBS in the end and decided to just use ffmpeg from the command line. I've been googling stuff for months trying to figure out how to fix this issue, and I've found no solution, only a bunch of people with the same problem. If I want to record gameplay with minimal performance drop for things like benchmarks, I'm all out of luck, since recording at 1440p in OBS using vaapi gives me a video which is an actual slideshow and there is literally no known way to fix this. Now for the bad part of the AMD experience: hardware encoding on AMD is absolutely awful.
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You see, when it comes to just running games and using my computer, I do believe that AMD GPUs are better, yes, since I don't have to deal with screen tearing and I can overclock, under/overvolt my GPU freely, which is something I can't do on Nvidia because they lock the voltage control in the proprietary driver for some bizarre reason.
So I switched to an AMD GPU this year since I heard they were better on Linux, but my experience has been kinda rough.