I love a good first person puzzler, but I can wait. Not like I'll run out of games to play any time soon.

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Quoting: emphy

Quoting: The_Aquabat

Quoting: bisbyxcompared the 3070 to the 2080ti, then compared the 3080 to the 2080 (non super). They primed your brain so when you hear "twice as fast" you think "twice as fast as the 2080ti"... Even though 25% faster than the 2080ti is exactly what their graph (shown in the article) roughly says.

interesting I didn't notice the 2080ti at first glance they put it like in furthest part of the graph another marketing technique here??

That is just a consequence of 2080ti's price. For the marketing trick you need to be at the other side of the graph. I'll leave it for you to discover; it's quite subtle.

You mean how the price axis starts at $200?

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Quoting: EMO GANGSTER

Quoting: emphyThese cards are all way out of range of what I consider to be acceptable pricing, no matter how good the performance.

What's much more interesting to me is that the rx5700xt numbers are not all that much behind in the reviews (price/performance ratio) and that I am already seeing those cards in the used market for *very* reasonable prices, which I expect to get even more tempting in the coming few months.

have the drivers gotten better for this cards I'm hoping they drop in price when RDNA2 comes out I game on a 1080 tv so I don't need crazy powerful card?

Has been working great for me for the better part of a year now. I also game on a 1080p TV and it runs everything I own at maximum settings with power to spare.

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Quoting: slapinNvidia is big time SoC vendor (tegra) and this is very bad for market, where are anti-trust laws?

As Liam notes in the article: "This includes regulatory approvals across the U.K., China, the European Union and the United States which they're estimating to take 18 months." Of these the EU and maybe the U.K. are the only entities I could possibly see pushing back, but I doubt they will.

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Quoting: barotto

Quoting: tuubi

Quoting: barottoIf AMD's track record with the 5000 series is of any indication, I wouldn't consider the RX 6000 as usable in Linux with the open drivers for another 6 months after launch, minimum.

You could be right. Although the fact that RDNA2 is basically just a refresh of RDNA might shave off a few months.

I wouldn't call a +50% perf/watt jump on the same 7nm node a simple refresh... and RDNA2 will have ray tracing support in the asic as well.

But I hope you're right, because day-1 RX 5000 support was tragic.

I'm just going by AMD's own marketing. Didn't say it was simple, but it certainly isn't a brand new HW architecture. I recall similar power efficiency improvements between the RX300 and RX400 series of their Polaris GPUs, and that was a refresh as well. The ray tracing stuff technically shouldn't hinder bringing up support for anything else, seeing as it's additional and fairly separate functionality on top of the RDNA base.

In any case, let's hope for a better launch this time. I'm happy with my 5700 XT and will be skipping this generation completely unless something really unexpected happens, but I'd certainly prefer it if early adopters had a better time on Linux.

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Quoting: barottoIf AMD's track record with the 5000 series is of any indication, I wouldn't consider the RX 6000 as usable in Linux with the open drivers for another 6 months after launch, minimum.

You could be right. Although the fact that RDNA2 is basically just a refresh of RDNA might shave off a few months.

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Quoting: DebianUserSo we can wonder why Liam Dawe has witten "GPU overclocking (NVIDIA)" ? :s

Seems like a direct quote from the GitHub page. Maybe their Readme isn't up to date.

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Quoting: DebianUserIt seems that when you activate GPU optimisations, like overcloaking, the soft warn the user.
A flag is stored in config file to not warn again and again.
I think that since overcloaking is juste for NVIDIA, you will see this message only if you have a NVIDIA card ?

What do you mean overclocking is just for Nvidia? I haven't overclocked an AMD GPU myself, but I did undervolt my old RX580 on Linux to deal with the crappy MSI card's overheating problem, and the same tools would have allowed overclocking as well.

Also, the comment above that setting pretty explicitly states that it'll be gamemode applying the overclocks, doesn't it? Maybe they haven't actually implemented overclocking, but I don't think the setting is supposed to be about notifications.

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Quoting: fagnerlnI love the design choices of Manjaro's team, it's always clean and with nice colors. I hope that Xubuntu changes their theme, that greybird feels too antiquated.

What's the name of this theme?

I guess you missed it, but the article says it's called 'Matcha'.

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Quoting: Eike

Quoting: DebianUserI'm wondering why there is not AMD overclocking, since its easyling tweakable from /sys/class/drm/ ?

Overclocking should be up to the user.

It should be. But in /etc/gamemode.ini you'll find these lines:

; Setting this to the keyphrase "accept-responsibility" will allow gamemode to apply GPU optimisations such as overclocks
;apply_gpu_optimisations=0

No idea what it actually does, if anything at all.

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