Graphics Cards
Drivers for hardware accelerated desktop rendering, improving performance and fidelity.
Intel
pacman -S mesa vulkan-intel intel-media-driver libva-intel-driver
yay -S intel-hybrid-codec-driver
AMDGPU
pacman -S xf86-video-amdgpu vulkan-radeon mesa libva-mesa-driver mesa-vdpau
Nvidia
Nvidia
Nouveau open source driver
pacman -S libva-mesa-driver mesa-vdpau
yay -S nouveau-fw
Proprietary driver
pacman -S nvidia nvidia-utils # Includes Vulkan driver
Include in initramfs for early KMS
/etc/mkinitcpio.conf add the appropriate modules for your hardware to the MODULES=() array:
i915
AMDGPU
amdgpu
Nouveau
nouveau
NVIDIA proprietary
nvidia nvidia_modeset nvidia_uvm nvidia_drm
In case of the NVIDIA proprietary driver, add the following kernel commandline parameter to your boot manager configuration
nvidia-drm.modeset=1
mkinitcpio -P