New drivers are out now

http://support.amd.com/en-us/download/desktop?os=Linux+x86_64 [External Link]

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Put in a question of whether we are getting freesync @ AMDMat on the OC forums driver thread. Don't seem to see it mention in any slides :(

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Alien:iso
Insurgancey
Borderlands 2
X3:Reunion + AP
Natural selection (Vastly improved for those that gave up on it)
Serious Sam 3 BFE
Shadow of Mordor

This is the last 4 months

Although the last few nights I've been playing with the UE4 engine/editor

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Trouble is with UE4 now accessible by joe blogs and from the messing I've done the last few days I think Unity has a serious uphill battle for the "Goto engine"

I have no idea about the money/licensing side of ether so I guess that would make a big difference

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I just can't get into it, I've tried and tried again after the update. It runs great even on AMD, looks good @1440p on movie but, The UI and imbalance is insane !!!!!

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Quoting: linuxgamer

Quoting: pete910Anyone know if the fact geekbench been compiled with clang 3.3(2013) would effect it with regards steamos using the 4xx kernel ? seem to remember reading some good gains in the last few versions of llvm/clang.

Of the Top500 supercomputers only 1 uses Windows and 488 use Linux only (entire Top100) http://www.top500.org/statistics/sublist/ [External Link] . If the floating points calculations would decrease by 10% when using Linux the owners would loose millions to dozens of millions.

I ran the geekbench mark on my own sys, both win and lin,
Don't get how mine got a better score in linux than windows going on what Ars got with the steam machine. Granted I've got win7. Others have done the same with win10 and there linux install has still beat it. :dizzy:

So I there's something going wrong in the current SteamOS build as like you said, The top 500 would be losing a fair chunk I would have thought.

Scores are here
[url=Linux]http://browser.primatelabs.com/geekbench3/4178169[/url]
[url=Windows]http://browser.primatelabs.com/geekbench3/4178315[/url]

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Ars has never been a fan of linux tbh. But with what they wrote in the quote proves they don't understand how the ecosystem works either, pinning all of it on valves shoulders as it were.

Anyone know if the fact geekbench been compiled with clang 3.3(2013) would effect it with regards steamos using the 4xx kernel ? seem to remember reading some good gains in the last few versions of llvm/clang.

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Quoting: PublicNuisance

Quoting: pete910

Quoting: liamdawe

Quoting: pete910I'll just point out that the steam versions are DRM free too. you can run them without steam running/starting

You still need the Steam client running to download them, there's been debates on this but that's still a small form of DRM to some people.

Anyway, let's not turn this into a DRM war heh.

:huh:

I guess when you buy it off GoG then it just appears on your system...

Comments like this make me wish this site had a dislike button.

Agreed

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Quoting: BdMdesigN

Quoting: sonicI dont thik that GPU they use will have full Vulkan support, NVidia have some problems with asynchronous shaders.

Only on DirectX 12.
Vulkan works in a other way as dx 12 does.

No, not really. One of the main/key point's of both DX and Vulkan. It's the Asynchronous bit thats hurting NV. AMD's solution is on the hardware from what I 've read

It's what is used to help the consoles to get the perf with such week hardware. Though with them having only 8 iirc they dont push anything like what a PC GPU can compute

This explains the asynchronous bit better than I can

http://amd-dev.wpengine.netdna-cdn.com/wordpress/media/2012/10/Asynchronous-Shaders-White-Paper-FINAL.pdf [External Link]

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Quoting: wojtek88I have to say that guy has to believe in what he is saying, because he sounds really convincing.

It's called a salesman :P

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