Hi,
> In my experience the only reliable open source drivers are the
> ones for Intel, and Intel doesn't make a stand alone video
> card, just on board video for Intel motherboards.
>
> For several releases now I've given the nouveau drivers a chance
> on each new fedora install, and within a week (usually within
> two hours) I've had the desktop freeze up hard, so I install the
> rpmfusion binary nvidia drivers and never have any more trouble.
Yeah, great point. I actually forgot about that - I'm using the radeon
driver, which I think is also from rpmfusion.
I had very few problems running akmods with Nvidia drivers from RPM Fusion, but then again, I also was the maintainer for quite some time :) However, you mentioned FOSS drivers so I didn't mention it. You shouldn't need the radeon drivers with the newer AMD cards, which is why I mentioned the RX 5XX series, they run well out of the box. I only installed the amdgpu drivers for OpenCL support.
If you can find the RX 4XX card they're nearly identical, the 5XX series have a little higher clock speed.
Thanks,
Richard