Well, before the 5060 Ti I have now, about 6 months ago I had an 1080 Ti and games absolutely didn't just work. In fact, the all thing was a very big mess because there isn't/wasn't proper support for 1000 series NVIDIA GPUs with Wayland and there was a big list of issues: VSync being an obvious one (but many others).

I had to configure (the few distros that still support it) to use X11 and live with another set of issues.