Quoting: Lightkey

Quoting: GuestDo we already know when less power-hungry cards will be announced/available?

The Radeon RX 6700 (XT) cards are reported to be coming out in January.

Also, I am surprised nobody commented on the astonishing feat that AMD Mesa developers have pulled off here.
Fixing the PCIe reset bug (watch the Level1Linux video) that plagued the last few generations and finally delivering the same performance compared to NVidia. If you look at the Phoronix results, you will notice that the Radeon 5700 XT is far slower than it is on Windows, relative to NVidia's cards.
And all that on day one, which is a first for AMD's Mesa drivers, I think!

Looking at benchmarks on Windows, I don't know what you are talking about, RX 5700 on Linux sits just where it should, which is just between RTX 2070 and RTX 2070 SUPER...

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Fedora's linux-firmware package with support for RX 6800 series is now stable.

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Quoting: slaapliedjeAlso did discovery that nvidia now has an official means of installing for RHEL/Cent and Fedora, so you don't even need rpmfusion anymore (well unless you want 32bit support, doesn't seem like they care about that, as they're more focused on the drivers being used for server side stuff, as you know that's how they make their Linux money.)

This is not true, Fedora allows adding Nvidia drivers on default installations using a separate repository which is actually managed by RPMfusion, which is not related to Nvidia, and that you need to enable manually.

As much as I understand that you had to mess with Mesa quite a bit in the past, here it seems AMD just did the best they can to add their new GPU to the open source stack as early as possible.

Yes, Debian stable is not a bleeding edge distro so you will either need to wait for a new release or to use testing, but that is something that you expect from a more "conservative" distro, and an issue not limited to GPUs.

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Here on Fedora 33, Mesa, LLVM and the kernel are up-to-date, and I just noticed the updated firmware package is built and in testing, so we can consider it to be compatible from day one.

Well done AMD!
Now I'm just dreaming of a Ryzen 5800X + Radeon RX 6800 rig, but I need to save some money first...

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Something that needs mention here is that maybe Valve's investment in Linux gaming is not that big as far as money is concerned. While they do have contractors, I think no one failed to notice that Valve's biggest contributions, like Proton, are mostly based on preexisting projects that are already in a working state, and in my opinion, that is why it made such an impact: they have embraced the concept of open source in such a brilliant way.

They backed both strong, decades-old projects like Wine and ambitious new projects like DXVK, but they also benefited from AMD's own push for open drivers, thus demonstrating how openness can become a strength. They didn't try to re-invent the wheel, they supported the already-existing open source community and ecosystem.

While they do have projects of their own, like esync/fsync, most of the money they've been spending has fueled an already resourceful community, so while their contribution is big, I don't think it involves that much in financial terms, and more particularly, much less than if they had done everything from scratch.

And while doing so, they get recognition from the community in return, which means that most Linux gamers will be happily spending money on their store. So the more they back Linux technology, the more their catalog is supported with better performance, the more recognition and money they get. They are almost alone to do this on the Linux market.

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Be careful, Vanguard Princess port is broken and it does not run with Proton or Linux Runtime.

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I was playing Quake 3 extensively when CS kicked in. To be honest, I really disliked it at the time, graphics were dated, gameplay was slow and glitchy, and CS players were really unfriendly.
I was really surprised when I tried CS:GO, as I really dig it actually. It is really aggressive and precise.

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This is a great thing for sure, as Linux will now be able to handle every API with wrappers, which can handle all the quirks instead of drivers, which will be much more simple to maintain.

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And that is the reason why, 8 years ago, I went from average Linux PC + console to a gaming-capable Linux PC. Thank you Valve, we've been having a great time thanks to you!

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Honestly, even if the game won't allow me to push graphics to the limit, I'm still enjoying it so much. It crashes once in a while but that's really not what I would call often. Only really annoying bug I encountered was in Lambda core when using the teleporters, performance began to dip really badly. Whenever it became unplayable, hitting escape would help a bit, so I managed to get past it.

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