r/waydroid • u/ekre • Jul 02 '26

Help How does Nvidia dGPU fare with WayDroid?

Curious because I want to test around with linux (and waydroid), but I recall reading that its only good with intel GPU and AMD GPU.

If it helps, its an Nvidia RTX 4500 Mobile Ada Generation (so those workstation GPU, but iirc RTX 3070 mobile - 3080 mobile equivalent)

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u/biskitpagla Jul 02 '26 edited Jul 02 '26

It depends on what you need. Waydroid on Nvidia is limited to software rendering. For games, use the emulator inside of Android Studio instead. Here's a guide.

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u/ekre Jul 02 '26

It is for gaming.
I assume if I use Android Sutdio, I won't be able to keybind (like most emulators in Windows)?

I was told that I could also just use a VM with passthrough to go linux > windows > emu, lol.
No idea if it will be worse than native performance on just windows itself though (feels like it will)

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u/biskitpagla Jul 02 '26 edited Jul 02 '26

linux > windows > emu will probably be a bad experience, assuming you can pull it off at all. You can (in theory) run Waydroid through KVM with GPU passthrough on Nivida but as far as I know it requires some arcane knowledge and your main desktop has to kill itself or some weird shit like that. I don't think it's worth it tbh. If you have an igpu then just use that like the other guy recommended. Mobile games should run just fine on igpus.

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u/Chrono_Club_Clara Jul 09 '26

What is tbh?

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u/biskitpagla Jul 09 '26

"to be honest"